NOTCHES. A collaborative, international, and peer reviewed blog promoting critical discussions of the history of sexuality. Now on Bluesky as @notchesblog
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This #ThrowbackThursday let’s escape to “one night when the earth seems far away and the pulses beat fast to the sensuous music of the latest waltzes and the most tempting fox-trots” through an exciting 2017 article by Renata Colwell. 1/4
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#PrideMonth is a time to celebrate visibility and community, however many folks neglect to learn about their own local history. For #ThrowbackThursday let's have a look at the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project.
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#QueerHistory #LGBTQ 1/3
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Another wonderful @NotchesBlog 👇
"The letters reveal.. personal struggles over gender roles and identities, and the joys the couple encountered through the practice of a wide variety of sexual roles, positions, and techniques."
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Fancy some queer rodeo this Tuesday morning? Today we bring you a new NOTCHES post: an interview with Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield about their book, Slapping Leather, Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo.
Find it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4GM
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New post on NOTCHES blog! A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers by Jen Jack Gieseking draws upon interviews with 47 lesbian and queer New Yorkers who came out of the closet between 1983 and 2008.
Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4ky
#QueerHistory #LGBTQ
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"How to wear your hair" - the half playful, half serious pubic politics of the Aktionsgruppe Homosexualität Osnabrück in 1977/78, the subject of this fabulous new piece by Jan-Hauke Branding @NotchesBlog
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May is #AAPIMonth in North America so let’s dedicate this week's #ThrowbackThursday to the East by focusing on Hongwei Bao’s 2019 article ”Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China” 1/4
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#LGBTQIA #QueerHistory
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CFP: Where is the Sex in Sex Work History? Accessing sexual practices through histories of sex work and prostitution ift.tt/BLUxb9K
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Thanks for the shout-out, @NotchesBlog! I enjoyed writing this piece a lot. #histsex
Let’s get physical (and clinical) this #ThrowbackThursday.
This week, we look back on Donna Drucker’s 2019 article, “Clinical Demonstration by Two Expert Intellectuals”: Robert Latou Dickinson’s Representations of Sexual Intercourse.
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“Are Historians of Sexuality Sexier than Other Historians?” The question remains. For this week’s #ThrowbackThursday let's take a deep dive to a decade in the past with one of our first articles by our advisor Julia Laite. 1/4
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#QueerHistory #HistSex
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Its #AromanticSpectrumAwarenessWeek, so let’s look back at the 2015 article, “Revisiting Love’s ‘Golden Age’” by our contributor Alana Harris. 1/4
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#LGBTHistoryMonth #QueerHistory #Aromantic
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For #LGBTPrideMonth, lets dig into our archives from a decade ago. This week's article continues to pose an important question, “What should LGBT History Month say about Empire?” Our contributor Onni Gust elaborates below. 1/5
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For #ThrowbackThursday lets look at GVGK Tang's 2017 article "Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome" which delves into the dynamic, complex histories of gender-defying figures and practices in Ancient Rome 1/5
Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-3hm
#QueerHistory
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Queer Fascism and the End of Gay History notchesblog.com/2018/06/19/q… via @NotchesBlog
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I wrote this short piece for @notchesblog on gender-affirming care for trans folks and reproduction based on my @mitpress book _Fertility Technology_. Thanks as always to @JustinBengry and the Notches team for their editing work. #histsex
We’ve got an exciting new post out today. In Reproduction in Transition: Fertility Technology in the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minorities, Donna J. Drucker, @histofsex, brings together fertility technologies, gender affirming care, and the limitations of medical advancements.
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¡Atención al nuevo post publicado en @NotchesBlog!: "“The best fighters of each other’s oppressions”: Trans and Non-Trans Solidarity in Lesbian Communities":
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“Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain notchesblog.com/2022/10/18/b…
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Some tantalising queer and trans history in here!
Who was Giacomo Casanova?
Whilst most people have heard of Casanova, today’s post unpicks his complex history. We spoke to Leo Damrosch, author of Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova (@YalePress), to find out more.
Find it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4wl
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A new book, Queer beyond London, tells the local queer stories at the heart of our national LGBTQ+ history.
Don't miss the authors Matt Cook & Alison Oram on their upcoming book tour.
22/9 @leedslibraries
23/9 @BlackwellsMcr
Details & tickets here: manchesteruniversitypress.co…
ALT Queer beyond London
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In this post on @NotchesBlog, @_paulbaker_ reflects on the parallels between the homophobic 1980s and the present day, and asks: Section 28 was repealed in 2003 – but do we have cause for complacency?
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