When No Place is Home: Braving a Pandemic, Resisting White Supremacy, and Surviving Homophobia
An anonymous undergraduate shares their difficulties in finding a safe and accepting living situation.
Tag: LGBTQ+
Activist Scholarship, #BlackTransLivesMatter, and Consistent Anti-Oppression
We can witness the history of tomorrow while recognizing how the past got us here.
Zol er Krenken un Gedenken (May he Suffer and Remember)
Our productions are acts of queer Yiddish world-building.
Gender Transition in the Trump Era
I was the first openly transgender student at my high school and successfully secured the rights for transgender students to use the bathroom of their gender identity, room with students of the same gender identity for overnight field trips, and to change their name in the school’s attendance system to reflect their preferred name and gender marker.
This Must Be The Place: Glasgow’s Development as a Progressive Queer Working Class City
Scotland is considered one of the most progressive countries in Europe…Scotland, and by default Glasgow, has not always been LGBT+ forward. Queer visibility and acceptance is a relatively recent development in the social and legal landscape. Queer identities were previously socially stigmatized and there were possible legal repercussions including jail time for homosexual acts – both in public and in private.
(Re)recovering Victorian Queer History: Death Wore a Diadem (1989) and Feminist editing practices
Death Wore a Diadem’s editorial in particular is rich in its detail. It records the labours of care and attentiveness performed by a feminist publisher, to an act of lesbian historical narrative creation, itself written in a thoroughly genre-fiction mode.
Ozaawindib, the Ojibwe Trans Woman the US Declared a Chief
Ozaawindib’s story reveals important historical realities of queer, trans, and/or Two-Spirit experiences in North America, especially relating to the process of colonization and the erasure of people who did not conform to the accepted dominant standards of gender and sexuality.
(Hidden) In Plain Sight: The Global Compromise on Queer Life in the Urban Public Sphere
The advent of modern cities was also indispensible in the formation of queer identities…They simultaneously delivered unprecedented freedoms as well as unparalleled scrutiny.
Home Grown: Critical Queer Activism in Appalachia and the South
Emphasis on organizing along lines of difference as a collective has caused organizations in the South and Appalachia to experience violent backlash.
The Queer History of the Women’s House of Detention
From 1932 to 1971, thousands of women and gender non-conforming people passed through the high stone walls of the “House of D” every year.
The Activist History Review 