He Who Photographed Dykedom

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

Reading Guide: Le Monocle, 1932

Look upon this delightful lezbiqueertransness of the 1930s! Welcome to Paris' sapphic cabaret Le Monocle.

Sing with Me Now: "B.D. Women's Blues" & "Prove It on Me"

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.

Reading Guide: Eve’s Hangout, Greenwich Village, 1925

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

Reading Guide: The Epic Life of Eve Adams

First installment of the Queer Geographies Reading Guide: Jonathan Ned Katz's The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams.

Reading Guide: Dyke Bars* 1920s-1930s

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.

(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.

My "First" Queer Data

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

We Never Left Laramie: White LGBTQ Consciousness

Some thoughts on the queerness and whiteness of leftist protests.

Grindr, AI, & Space-Time

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.

But Why *These* Queer Historians?

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

"The Gender of Desire: Joan Nestle’s Last Interview"

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.