Blue star tattoos. She took off her watch and I saw my first. An inked symbol on the wrist of a bisexual woman from the West Coast. It was 1998 and we were both students at my New England women’s college. The next sighting was a set of stars,
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A brief history of a very bad gay who may or may not be in one of the most important photos in dyke history.
Lately I am greatly annoyed by and grateful to the photographer Brassaï (1899-1984). My research into his photography of lesbiqueertrans folks at Monocle have happily taken up days of my life, but not just the Le Monocle images I wrote about previously. I am wading through Brassaï because took what
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Look upon this delightful lezbiqueertransness of the 1930s! Welcome to Paris' sapphic cabaret Le Monocle.
1920s
In a spacetime where so many of us are being silenced or targeted, it's a great time to bring back the ways folks spoke openly of QTBIPOC desire in the 1920s and 1930s.
Welcome to the second installment of the Dyke Bar* History Reading Guide Series! We begin with a dyke urban legend: Lesbians managed several of the speakeasies there in the twenties. The most famous of the lesbian proprietors was Eva Kotchever, a Polish Jewish emigre who went by the name Eve
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First installment of the Queer Geographies Reading Guide: Jonathan Ned Katz's The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams.
Lesbian, bisexual, queer, dyke, and trans chat & research for your sanity.
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 to feed your dyke bar* fascinations too.
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.
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
Some thoughts on the queerness and whiteness of leftist protests.
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
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.
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.