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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.
Jack Gieseking
Jack Gieseking is an environmental psychologist, historian, geographer, swimmer, creator, podcaster, and trans masc dyke who is deeply enthusiastic @ lezbiqueertrans everything, social justice, his partner, kids, and their dog, Gaybe. (he/they/v gay)
academic
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.
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"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.
dyke bars
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.
dyke bars
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...
lesbianbars
Let Us Tease You :: Our Dyke Histories Soft (Butch) Reveal
Coming in live from the Lesbian Lives conference in New York City, I'm excited to do a soft (butch) launch of my podcast with Sinister Wisdom: Our Dyke Histories!
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Magicks: Our Dyke Histories podcast soft launch at Lesbian Lives!
Come for the history; stay for the revolution, gossip, and desire that built it. 🤌 That's our (sexy and smart) tagline for my podcast Our Dyke Histories. I'm releasing ODH in collaboration with the amazing Sinister Wisdom, the lesbian multicultural literary and art journal.
lesbianbars
Okay, Okay, Now I (Sort of) Love Dyke Bars*
But I've never shared the reason I now (sort of) love dyke bars*. My anger arose from the question posed to me. And asking why lesbian bars are closing is an incredibly boring question.
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I (Used to) Hate Dyke Bars*
I hate dyke bars*. Or I used to. Now I'm writing a book about them. ** In the fall of 2020, the bright leaves were falling on very lezbiqueertrans western Massachusetts. I had moved into my dyke bff’s / pandemic podmate’s guest room. We helped one another other
dating & hookup apps
How Much We Don't (& Are Dying to Know) @ LBQT*S Dating & Hookup
The lezbiqueertranses compain they can't find one another on the apps. So how the heck to dating and hookup apps really work (or not work)?
queerspaces
20 Years On: Why I'm Still Living for Dyke* Spaces
It's utterly delightful to be back talking about lezbiqueertrans or dyke* spaces–by which I mean all the spaces and places claimed by, associated with, and personally and socially known to lesbian, bi, queer, trans, nb, gnc, and sapphic people. Or really anyone who'd affiliate with