History Humanities Social Sciences Theory

Transgender Studies Quarterly: Trans-Exclusionary Feminisms and the Global New Right

An unprecedented cultural alliance is underway between the anti-trans strand of the radical feminist movement and a new brand of militant right-wing politics that takes issue with the idea that gender is a social and cultural construction. This so-called “anti-gender” movement—which also travels under names such as “gender-critical feminism”—has found immense international power and is…

Essay History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

Arnold, Arnoldine, Adine: Transgeschlechtlichkeit in den 1910er-Jahren

Arnold, Arnoldine, Adine: Transgender in the 1910s. This article is about Arnold T., a trans woman who lived in Zurich during the 1910s. The analytical focus is on the historically specific construction of a transgender self- identity. Using a unique set of sources, it demonstrates how Arnold T. developed a relationship with herself through a…

History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences

A Rave at The End of World: The Politics of Queer Hauntology and Psychedelic Chronomancy

This project is a historical and theoretical exploration of the global phenomenon of underground dance music culture known as the rave. In particular, the project asks what is the history, technologies, and practices that lead to historical examples of rave culture and contemporary rave practices. The rise of fascism and neofascism in Western democracies in…

History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory

Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation

In recent years, “white feminism” and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won’t make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to…

Critique History Nonfiction Theory

Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling

Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Men were able to transgress Syrian norms related to marriage practices while they were traveling, while Syrian women accessed more economic autonomy though their participation in peddling networks. In Possible Histories, Charlotte Karem Albrecht explores…

History Nonfiction Theory

Peripheral Desires: The German Discovery of Sex

In Peripheral Desires, Robert Deam Tobin charts the emergence, from the 1830s through the early twentieth century, of a new vocabulary and science of human sexuality in the writings of literary authors, politicians, and members of the medical establishment in German-speaking central Europe—and observes how consistently these writers, thinkers, and scientists associated the new nonnormative…