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Photo of Philip Rieff at microphone waiting to speak

The Importance of Repression

Philip Rieff predicted that therapy culture would end in barbarism.
by Park MacDougald via UnHerd on September 29, 2021
Color block image of two people sharing a book.

Queer History Should Focus on Queer People

Sexless, impersonal academic approaches tell us little about the lived experiences of the LGBT community.
by Jim Downs via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 22, 2021
Book cover of Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics"

Sex, Lies, and Repentance

Reflection on the importance of sex in the spiritual redemption narratives that riveted the American public.
by Rebecca L. Davis via UNC Press Blog on September 16, 2021
The book cover for Vice Patrol

Vice, Vice, Baby

The history of patrolling sex in public.
by Max Fox via Bookforum on September 7, 2021
Collage of women's rights symbolism. Woman outline waving flag.

Who Lost the Sex Wars?

Fissures in the feminist movement should not be buried as signs of failure but worked through as opportunities for insight.
by Amia Srinivasan via The New Yorker on September 3, 2021
A collage featuring pictures from the 1918 Flu Pandemic and the 1920s, including people wearing masks and nurses on one side and flappers on the other.

What Caused the Roaring Twenties? Not the End of a Pandemic (Probably)

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.
by Lila Thulin via Smithsonian on May 3, 2021
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez (left), "Empire's Mistress" book cover with image of Isabel Cooper (right)

The General, the Mistress, and the Love Stories That Blind Us

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses her new book on Isabel Cooper, a Filipina American actress and Douglas MacArthur’s lover.
by Noah Flora, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez via The Nation on April 5, 2021
Annabel Battistella photographed at the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.

Fanne Foxe, ‘Argentine Firecracker’ at Center of D.C. Sex Scandal, Dies at 84

She ran from the car of a powerful congressman and dove into the Tidal Basin in 1974, generating a splash that would ripple into a political cause celebre.
by Adam Bernstein via Washington Post on February 24, 2021
Two women sitting on a rocking chair in a nineteenth century photograph

Postures of Transport: Sex, God, and Rocking Chairs

What if chairs could shift our state of consciousness, transporting the imagination into distant landscapes and ecstatic experiences, both religious and erotic?
by Hunter Dukes via The Public Domain Review on February 3, 2021
Carvings on two whaleteeth (scrimshaw)

The Pleasure Crafts

Everyday people's creation of porn and erotic objects over the centuries.
by Cintra Wilson via New York Review of Books on December 17, 2020
A magazine cover featuring a man with a rocket launcher.
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Fear of the "Pussification" of America

On Cold War men's adventure magazines and the antifeminist tradition in American popular culture.
by Gregory A. Daddis via HNN on October 11, 2020
A collage graphic featuring men gazing at women as they walk by.

How the 'Girl Watching' Fad of the 1960s Taught Men to Harass Women

In name, 'girl watching' is long gone. In practice, the trend lives on.
by Gillian Frank, Lauren Gutterman via Jezebel on October 8, 2020
Black women, oil painting

Rebellious History

Saidiya Hartman’s "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments" is a strike against the archives’ silence regarding the lives of Black women in the shadow of slavery.
by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on October 1, 2020

The Mod Squad, Kojak, Real-Life Cops, and Me

What I relearned (about well-meaning liberalism, race, my late father, and my young gay self) rewatching the TV cop shows of my 1970s youth.
by Mark Edward Harris via Vulture on September 8, 2020

“All the World’s a Harem”

How masks became gendered during the 1918–1919 Flu Pandemic.
by E. Thomas Ewing, Jessica Brabble, Ariel Ludwig via Nursing Clio on September 8, 2020

How Boomers Changed American Family Life (By Getting Divorced)

Jill Filipovic on the generation that changed everything.
by Jill Filipovic via Literary Hub on August 13, 2020
Covers of issues of One magazine, featuring line drawings and article titles including "I am glad I am homosexual," and "I Just Had to Write".

ONE: The First Gay Magazine in the United States

ONE is a vital archive, but its focus on citizenship and “rational acceptance” ultimately blocked it from being the safe home for all that it claimed to be.
by Mairead Case via JSTOR Daily on July 15, 2020
Illustration of a nineteenth century prison ship offshore.

The Gay Marriages of a Nineteenth-Century Prison Ship

What seemed to enrage a former inmate most was the mutual consent of the men he lived with.
by Jim Downs via The New Yorker on July 2, 2020
Evelyn Hooker

The Pioneering Psychologist Who Proved that Being Gay isn’t a Mental Illness

How a friendship between a straight psychology professor and her gay student busted the myth of homosexuality as an illness.
by Robyn Schelenz via Fig. 1 (University Of California) on June 26, 2020
An etching of a woman and her "female husband."

May We All Be So Brave as 19th-Century Female Husbands

Far from being a recent or 21st-century phenomenon, people have chosen, courageously, to trans gender throughout history.
by Jen Manion via Aeon on May 7, 2020
Sasha Geffen next to their book

Pop Music Has Always Been Queer

Sasha Geffen’s debut book reveals that the history of pop music is a history of gender rebellion.
by Tal Milovina via The Nation on April 8, 2020
The title page of Life and confession of Ann Walters, the female murderess.

How “Female Fiends” Challenged Victorian Ideals

At a time when questions about women's rights in marriage roiled society, women readers took to the pages of cheap books about husband-murdering wives.
by Dawn Keetley, Erin Blakemore via JSTOR Daily on March 25, 2020

Janis Joplin, the Mistaken Icon of the Counterculture

The counterculture dictum to “turn on, tune in, drop out” did not quite capture Janis’s philosophy to “get it while you can.”
by Shalon Van Tine via Tropics of Meta on March 15, 2020

Emily Dickinson Escapes

A new biography and TV show present Emily Dickinson as a self-aware artist who created a life that defied the limits placed on women.
by Lynne Feeley via Boston Review on February 20, 2020

A Slave Trader’s Office Decor and the Pornography of Capitalism

In the antebellum South, the slave trader’s office was a site of desire.
by Jeff Forret via The Panorama on February 17, 2020

Of Womb-Furie, Hysteria, and Other Misnomers of the Feminine Condition

Clare Beams on women's bodies and the power of names.
by Clare Beams via Literary Hub on February 11, 2020
Public art featuring silhouettes of enslaved people.

What Do We Want History to Do to Us?

Zadie Smith on Kara Walker, blackness and public art.
by Zadie Smith via New York Review of Books on February 6, 2020
Woman taking a photo with Iranian flags behind her. She is a demonstrator protesting a disputed election wearing a headband in support of the Green Movement. Tehran, June 15, 2009.

How the US Repeatedly Failed to Support Reform Movements in Iran

A scholar of social movements in Iran asks why the US has consistently failed to support that country's activist reform movements.
by Pardis Mahdavi via The Conversation on February 5, 2020
A family poses for a photo outdoors.

Queering Postwar Marriage in the U.S.

In the post-WWII era, American lesbians negotiated lives between straight marriages and homosexual affairs.
by Lauren Gutterman via Not Even Past on February 1, 2020

The First Drag Queen Was a Former Slave

William Dorsey Swann fought for queer freedom a century before Stonewall.
by Channing Gerard Joseph via The Nation on January 31, 2020
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