Who Does ‘The Help’ Help? A Curt Critique
Just like we can ask in 2023 who feels free in watching “Emancipation,” we should also ask who “The Help” actually helps.
Tag: Gender
Why burlesque is not simply sexy, but also subversive (CW: some nudity)
Burlesque empowers performers and (ideally) viewers alike to reject patriarchal norms and to help create a more inclusive society.
Taylor Swift, Public Historian
Taylor Swift is doing important historical work by examining her relationship to the past and inviting fans and followers to do the same.
Just Like Earl: William Luther Pierce and the Hero Complex of Far-Right Masculinity
Pierce fetishized a particularly patriarchal, violent, and primitive form of masculinity and deliberately sought to attack the masculine insecurities of his readers in order to mobilize a violent hero complex.
Zol er Krenken un Gedenken (May he Suffer and Remember)
Our productions are acts of queer Yiddish world-building.
A Black Class: Re-Learning Abolition in Higher Education Organizing
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to help set it in motion and watch it crash into the structures that for far too long have limited our vision of community to brutality and fear.
A Queer Civil War Soldier’s Story
As a man who found intimacy with another soldier, in a relationship that outlasted the war, Alphons Richter’s story is queer to modern readers. Untangling the strangeness of the emotional, Richter provides insight into the queer history of the United States.
The Regular and Necessary Practice of Black Trans Necromancy
Blu Buchanan: In this essay I explore the problem of absence and abjection in Black trans experience, both in the historical archive of slavery and in the contemporary moment, asking how and why Black trans necromancy is so important to our everyday lives.
Call for Contributors: “Recovering Queer Histories in Unexpected Places”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our May 2019 issue, “Recovering Queer Histories in Unexpected Places.”
Between a Cuck and a Hard Place: Masculinity and Online Uses of the Word ‘Cuck’
I analyzed how users of The_Donald subreddit use the word “cuck” so you never have to visit their website.
The Activist History Review 