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(Data) Visualizing the Lesbian Herstory Archives
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.
It's Closed Now: Our Decades-Long Fixation with Lost Dykedom
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.
"Love, Bulldaggers, and the Birth of Lesbian Research"
The lushness of Jonathan Ned Katz on Eve Adams doesn't quit. Here's the E1S4 transcript in full.
Why Did U.S. Lesbian Bars Start in the 1930s?
On dykes and the mafia: a tale of the Prohibition sex tourism, racialized racist tourism, policing, graft, and desire.
"Tea, Anarchy, and the First Dyke Bar: Eve’s Hangout 1925"
Meet the wonder of Eve Adams. The lush transcript from S1E3 of Our Dyke Histories.
"When Paris and Berlin Were Dyke Bars*"
Enjoy the detailed transcript of the second episode of my Our Dyke Histories podcast.
Redrawing U.S. QueerTransness
Why trans people care -- though they may not know how much -- about gerrymandering.
"1920s & 1930s: The LezQueer World before Bars"
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.
Is 1928's Café Dorian Gray Actually Cubbyhole 2025?!
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.
Why We Need(ed) a Gender, Sexuality, & Space Reading List
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.
"My Lesbian Bar"
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.
Lez Liberatory Geographical Imaginations: Dykeness in Retrospect
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.
The Only Lesbian Bar Guide in the World Is from 1928
Just then, Spinnboden archivist and director Katja Koblitz gently sprung up. She arrived at my shoulder and tapped me gently, as she said, “Why didn’t you tell me earlier you were writing a book on dyke bars?” I turned and found her beaming...