Indigenous relations are often described in anthropological terms, or as expressions of timeless, unchanging kinship ties. In Speculative Relations, Joseph M. Pierce challenges this view, considering the potential of these relations as a means of repairing the damages of history. Pierce approaches Indigenous art and culture not as objects of ......
What if our society's deepest prejudices weren't about race, gender, or sexuality-but height? In his groundbreaking allegorical novel, acclaimed Jordanian author and activist Fadi Zaghmout imagines just such a world, crafting a powerful meditation on discrimination and desire that speaks directly to our contemporary debates about identity and ......
What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us About Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging
In Body Problems, M. Wolff offers groundbreaking insight into Sally Gross, a South African intersex priest and activist whose body was continuously policed and politicized. Gross's role in founding Intersex South Africa and her involvement with the African National Congress are celebrated in the Apartheid Museum, but the complex dimensions of her ......
What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us About Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging
In Body Problems, M. Wolff offers groundbreaking insight into Sally Gross, a South African intersex priest and activist whose body was continuously policed and politicized. Gross's role in founding Intersex South Africa and her involvement with the African National Congress are celebrated in the Apartheid Museum, but the complex dimensions of her ......
2020 Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award Honorable Mention from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition Romantic letters are central to understanding queer history. Debates about letters of "romantic friendship," however, too often reduce them to unstudied expressions of heartfelt feeling. In Queering Romantic ......
FAQs About Non-Monogamy and Allyship for Family, Friends and Loved Ones
Could my loved one's polyamory just be a phase? What does it mean for raising children? How should I navigate meeting multiple partners? Having a polyamorous family member or friend can bring up lots of questions - including some that you might be too scared to ask. This non-judgemental, accessible guide addresses common concerns, explains new ......
Frontier Comrades examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West. Each account interprets this history through experiences that take place in different parts of the West, moving chronologically from the fur trade era to the dawn of the automobile age. Jim Wilke provides the first ......
Explore Gilded Age New York through the lens of Alice Austen, who captured the social rituals of New York's leisured class and the bustling streets of the modern city. Celebrated as a queer artist, she was this and much more Alice Austen (1866-1952) lived at Clear Comfort, her grandparent's Victorian cottage on Staten Island, which is now a ......
Disability and Racial Dysphoria in Latinx and Filipinx Culture
An examination of the interconnectedness of brown-racialized people across multiple identities, told through case studies of television, literature, and writing. As a Filipinx immigrant to the United States, Sony CorANez Bolton has frequently been mistaken as Mexican. Dos X theorizes such misrecognition. What does it mean to exist in this ......
