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: LGBTQIA+
A Return to Home: Navigating Familial Relationships as a Queer Person During COVID
A queer college student in New York City faces challenges navigating interpersonal relationships after COVID sends her back to her small hometown.
Activist Scholarship, #BlackTransLivesMatter, and Consistent Anti-Oppression
We can witness the history of tomorrow while recognizing how the past got us here.
The Transgender Community in the Time of COVID-19
The consequences of halting gender affirming surgeries could be deadly for a marginalized community that already faces high fatality rates from transphobic violence, substance abuse, and suicide tied to the mental health impacts of gender dysphoria.
Zol er Krenken un Gedenken (May he Suffer and Remember)
Our productions are acts of queer Yiddish world-building.
Tracing the Color of Queer Choreopolitics
Black queer and trans direct action actively and visibly challenges the “daily choreography of conformity.”
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.
The Activist History Review 