The Future is Another Country
The advent of modern cities was also indispensible in the formation of queer identities…They simultaneously delivered unprecedented freedoms as well as unparalleled scrutiny.
Emphasis on organizing along lines of difference as a collective has caused organizations in the South and Appalachia to experience violent backlash.
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.
Murray, a legal theorist, attorney, civil rights activist, poet, feminist, and minister is attributable with ushering a new wave of feminist and adjacent thinking and shaping wide swaths of the U.S.’s modern civil rights legal landscape.Murray, a legal theorist, attorney, civil rights activist, poet, feminist, and minister is attributable with ushering a new wave of feminist and adjacent thinking and shaping wide swaths of the U.S.’s modern civil rights legal landscape.
Smith is representative of many overlooked and erased queer figures. These narratives are not just forcibly erased, but the connective association between historical event and queerness is also severed.
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.
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.
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our May 2019 issue, “Recovering Queer Histories in Unexpected Places.”
We must cast a critical eye toward the diversity conversation within the tech industry as it impacts who’s employed in that industry, the types of products they produce, who writes about those products, who those products are made for, and who benefits from those products.
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