Critique Law/Legal Nonfiction Theory

Tracing the Coloniality of Queer and Trans Migrations: Resituating Heterocisnormative Violence in the Global South and Encounters with Migrant Visa Ineligibility to Canada

Most of the scholarship on queer and trans migrants focuses on the refugee experience post-migration to Canada. In contrast, this article draws from a doctoral study that included participant interviews and policy/media textual analysis to map out the historical, geopolitical, social, and economic dimensions that shape homophobic and transphobic violence across the globe, as well…

Critique Humanities Nonfiction Theory

Re-orientation: Marriage, Heteronormativity and Heterodox Paths

‘Hetero’ (from the Greek, ‘different’) is most familiar to us in its attachment as a prefix to ‘sexuality’. In gender studies, sexuality studies and feminist scholarship, heterosexu- ality is routinely contrasted with homosexuality, and this contrast is often mapped over the opposition of heteronormative versus queer (ideas, practices, effects). These word-pairs (heterosexual and homosexual; heteronormative…

Critique Nonfiction Theory

Cisgenderism in psychology: pathologising and misgendering children from 1999 to 2008

We assessed whether recent psychological literature on children reflects or contrasts with the zeitgeist of American Psychological Association’s recent non-discrimination statement on ‘transgender’ and ‘gender variant’ individuals. Article records (N = 94) on childhood ‘gender identity’ and ‘expression’ published between 1999 and 2008 inclusive were evaluated for two kinds of cisgenderism, the ideology that invalidates or pathologises…

Critique Humanities Nonfiction

Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback

From homicidal homos to locked-up lesbians, and almost every sexually dangerous combination in between, Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback is the first complete expose of queer sexuality in mid-twentieth century paperbacks. Compellingly written by historian Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp gives a complete overview of the cultural, political, and economic…

Biography Critique History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory

“Indescribable Being”: Theological Performances of Genderlessness in the Society of the Publick Universal Friend, 1776–1819

In October 1776 Jemima Wilkinson of Cumberland, Rhode Island, claimed to have died and been resurrected by the Spirit of the Lord as a genderless spirit, renamed the ‘‘Publick Universal Friend.’’ As a resurrected spirit, the Friend defied the line between living and dead, body and spirit, divine and human, and male and female. The…

Biography Critique Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

Magnus Hirschfeld: Sexualidentität und Geschichtsbewußtsein. Eine dritte Klarstellung.

Zurm dritten Mal veröffentlicht Manfred Herzer eine Replik im Zusammenhang einer Debatte, die 1998 durch die Publikation eines Essays des Verfassers ausgelöst wurde: Der Tocl Adams. Geschichts- philo-sophische Thesen zur Sexualemanzipation im Werk lufugnus Hirschfelds.2 In seinerjüngsten Re- plilq’ die den Titel Die Auflösttng. Das Schv,eigen. Hirschfeld als Prophet. Nachklänge zu J. Edgar Bauers Hirschfeld-Deutun{…

Biography Critique History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Rupaul

“The foundational text that gave me life-changing context, helping me to understand who I was and who came before me.”—Tourmaline, activist and filmmaker Transgender Warriors is an essential read for trans people of all ages who want to learn about the towering figures who have come before them—and for everyone who is part of the…

Anthology Critique Nonfiction Social Sciences

Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies – Fifth Edition

At a time where, after decades of progress in gender and sexual rights, people in many parts of the world are facing new forms of resistance and opposition to gender equality, this timely publication confirms the continuing importance and relevance of gender and women’s studies.The fifth edition of this best-selling textbook provides a comprehensive overview…