Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds

By Laura Horak NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

An exciting introduction to cinema by the trans creators who are innovating filmmaking to imagine a more inclusive world.

Will the Sissy be Triumphant?

By Marlon Ross 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

The concept of sissiness, and the way the epithet is employed, is neither static nor universal.

Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s

By Jonathan Bell 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Beyond the Politics of the Closet examines the reorientation of LGBT politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Her Neighbor’s Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States.

Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education

By Pamela VanHaitsma LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

On the everyday rhetorical ingenuity of queer romantic letter-writing practices in the nineteenth-century United States.

The Rape of Rufus? Sexual Violence against Enslaved Men

By Thomas Foster Early America, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Violence

Rethinking Rufus argues that enslaved black men were sexually violated by both white men and white women.

Esther Newton’s Butch Career

By Esther Newton LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

I love reading and writing stories but, until my memoir, most have been about other people.