My sincere apologies for the empty post! This is the focus that comes of moving your dear aged mother across the country. I promise not to bore or tease you as such again. Thank the goddesses that we're firmly in the 1980s! In the first of two episodes
Bannon writes of the iconic, tall, hot, mildly-unhinged Beebo as she tries to make a life for herself in late 1950s Greenwich Village.
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.
How do we even begin to tell the lezbiqueertrans history of the 1940s-1960s? With "gender impersonators," especially!
Not all butches look alike. My trans clocking on how the famous Le Monocle photos are misread -- and the queer possibilities therein.
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.
Our Dyke Histories is back to tell you all about dyke bars* since the 1980s!
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
1920s
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
1920s
First installment of the Queer Geographies Reading Guide: Jonathan Ned Katz's The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams.
1920s
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.
queer data
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.
academic
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
whiteness
Some thoughts on the queerness and whiteness of leftist protests.
dating & hookup apps
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
1940s
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.
OurDykeHistories
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.