To complement the launch of the Our Dyke Histories podcast, which is co-produced in collaboration with Sinister Wisdom, I put together a reading guide with my interns Michaela Hayes, Mel Whitesell, Paige LeMay, Syd Guntharp, and Sarah Parsons. We begin in the 1920s through 1930s, covering three essential reads: Jonathan
queer data
On archival materials and uteri as backup gear and primary materials, and what comes from drinking a tea for a year in the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
academic
The kids today are super into the concept of queer data. Nerdy LGBTQ+ youth and middle-aged folks keep saying to me, "Have you read this Queer Data book? It's awesome." And then a month later, "Oho! Did you know they reference you?" I did
whiteness
Some thoughts on the queerness and whiteness of leftist protests.
dating & hookup apps
I still occasionally cannot help but put out an academic paper, especially queer-trans work on AI. Also, I drop some amazing archival gossip on David Livingstone.
A dear bi-queer-cis friend who married a queer cis guys who is listening to my Our Dyke Histories podcast is loving the episodes, she says, and learning so much about lezbiqueertrans history she didn't know but needed to know. She also asked, "Why did you interview these
1940s
Not long after we popped on our screens to record together, Joan Nestleannounced, "I'm 84. I'm very tired. This will be my last interview with you all today." I couldn't breathe.
Lesbian, bisexual, queer, dyke, and trans chat & research for your sanity.
Along with a lush photo spread of some queer highlights, awfulness, and delicious everyday life from the 1940s-1960s, enjoy a deep dive into NYC queer history with Joan Nestle, Hugh Ryan, and Alix Genter.
A meditation on the it's-closed-now rhetoric of lezbiqueertrans spaces--why it's true and how it traps anyone wanting to build a better world.
The lushness of Jonathan Ned Katz on Eve Adams doesn't quit. Here's the E1S4 transcript in full.
On dykes and the mafia: a tale of the Prohibition sex tourism, racialized racist tourism, policing, graft, and desire.
Meet the wonder of Eve Adams. The lush transcript from S1E3 of Our Dyke Histories.
Enjoy the detailed transcript of the second episode of my Our Dyke Histories podcast.
Why trans people care -- though they may not know how much -- about gerrymandering.
My podcast with Sinister Wisdom, Our Dyke Histories has launched! I'm sharing the transcript from the first 1920s-1930s episode with some images to bring it to life even further.
I'm enamored with Café Dorian Gray in 1928 Berlin – maybe because I've been to its twin(!), none other than the renowned Cubbyhole in 2025. Yes, really.
There are nearly 1,000 citations in here. As I said, I am *very* passionate about citations. Proof of life means so much to queers and transes, especially through records that we exist.
One of the first things my partner Rachel said to me was, "My lesbian bar was a babyfeeding café in Boston 2014-2015." And I've been thinking how I didn't bat an eye.
Many of us want to return to halcyon spacetimes. It's how the Far Right sells themselves. But wanting to go back to some halcyon spacetimes is how *everyone* makes sense of their geographies, just not in vile, cruel, and fascist ways.