Squirming in the Dark: Playful Occupations for Sex Workers in the 1870 Census

By Holly Marquess Archives of Desire, Sexual Labour

Uncovering the playful occupations listed for sex workers in the 1870 census.

Queering Kansas City Jazz

By Amber Clifford 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

A hidden and forgotten aspect of the city’s jazz scene with the stories of people experimenting with gender, sexuality, and identity.

"What a Woman Is": Breast Cancer, Sexuality and the Unreconstructed Self

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Medicine and the Body

Some nineteenth-century British physicians looked towards physical embodiments of femaleness for explanations for breast cancer.