The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable, part-manifesto, the book takes place in Ramrod, an empire in decline, and introduces us to the communities of the faggots, the women, the queens, the…
So what is it that we offer? What should be the locus of a radical imagination today? We affirm that queer communism is primarily an ethics— or a certain tvpe of intersubjective relationship among people. Imageries of the future should turn from the techno logical imagination toward envisioning new types of relations defined by ethical…
Now available for the first time–more than 50 years after it was written–is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the British doctor and Buddhist monastic novice chiefly known to scholars of sex, gender, and sexuality for his pioneering transition from female to male between 1939 and 1949, and for his groundbreaking 1946 book Self:…
This article reads sexological case studies of the fin-de siècle that contain accounts of trans women’s lives in the period. It argues that these sources contradict the diagnostic criteria that doctors determine as the factors that define trans feminine identity in the period: desire for men, social isolation, and tortured bodily dissatisfaction. Chief among these…
A short story describing early transition in 1902. Trans man Theodore H Hoffman wrote the op-ed for the San Francisco Examiner following his public arrest.
Catalina de Erauso (1592-1650) was a Basque noblewoman who, just before taking final vows to become a nun, escaped from the convent at San Sebastián, dressed as a man, and, in her own words, “went hither and thither, embarked, went into port, took to roving, slew, wounded, embezzled, and roamed about.” Her long service fighting…
This paper examines Harold Garfinkel’s notion of the natural attitude about sex and his claim that it is fundamentally moral in nature. The author looks beneath the natural attitude in order to explain its peculiar resilience and oppressive force. There she reveals a moral order grounded in the dichotomously sexed bodies so constituted through boundaries…
Mountain Charley, or the Adventures of Mrs. E. J. Guerin, Who Was Thirteen Years in Male Attire. An Autobiography Comprising a Period of Thirteen Years Life in the States, California, and Pike’s Peak. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. The Western Frontier Library Vol. 40. xv, 112pp. Boards. Introduction by Fred…