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.
Tag: queer identity
Peripeteia: Meditation on Hegemonic Iconoclasm
We seek not to be trivial adornments of achievements or static shelf pieces—we seek liberation over soulless applause.
Appalachia Is Queer, Too (CW: some nudity)
I heard someone who was a professional Christian for a living explain why they were not a part of the community that their ministry served.
Pauli Murray and the Pronominal Problem: a De-essentialist Trans Historiography
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.
The Queer Moan of Clara Smith: On Queer Aphasia in Blues Studies
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.
Queer Heresies: Witchcraft and Magic as Sites of Queer Radicality
This project is in many ways about illuminating hitherto unexplored dimensions of history and how to use it to shape our present and our futures. It is an intervention into the contemporary art world as a queer artist, an art historian of the African-diaspora, and a practicing occultist implementing the performative rituals and myths of witchcraft.
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.
I’m From Around Here, Too
I’m becoming. I’m becoming authentic. I’m becoming solid in the fact that I am good at my job, that I deserve to be in front of these students each day, just as much as any white, cishet male counterparts with degrees from way up North. I’m becoming solid in the understanding that by accepting my own identities (and the privileges and oppressions that come with them) I can clear space for my students to do the same.
The Activist History Review 