OurDykeHistories
In the first of two episodes on the 1980s, Jack chats with Sarah Schulman, Katherine V. Forrest, and Valerie Walker re lesbian bars, bookstores, queer parties, sex and sex parties, race and racism, AIDS, activism, and the worlds we made from them.
1940s
Bannon writes of the iconic, tall, hot, mildly-unhinged Beebo as she tries to make a life for herself in late 1950s Greenwich Village.
1980s
In my Our Dyke Histories interview with Lucas Hilderbrand, we talked giddily about a wide range of incredible spaces -- and you need to see them to believe them.
1940s
How do we even begin to tell the lezbiqueertrans history of the 1940s-1960s? With "gender impersonators," especially!
1930s
Not all butches look alike. My trans clocking on how the famous Le Monocle photos are misread -- and the queer possibilities therein.
lesbian bars
Our Dyke Histories is back with the 1980s-1990s. Including! Lezbiqueertrans super parties. Fighting AIDS. Queer generational collapse. And how cool St. Louis drag was.
lesbian bars
Our Dyke Histories is back to tell you all about dyke bars* since the 1980s!
Lesbian, bisexual, queer, dyke, and trans chat & research for your sanity.
We're back at it sharing the transcripts from Part 1 of Our Dyke Histories podcast decade-by-decade coverage on dyke bars* around the world. We spent four profound episodes in the 1970s because there's you just gotta, friends. They did so much, those lesbian feminists
We’ve long known all too little about the history of Black queer women’s social networks prior to Stonewall–until now.
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,
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
Look upon this delightful lezbiqueertransness of the 1930s! Welcome to Paris' sapphic cabaret Le Monocle.
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
First installment of the Queer Geographies Reading Guide: Jonathan Ned Katz's The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams.
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