“There is something melodic and meditative about Gertrude Stein’s writing, in both its lexical simplicity and repetition…”… read more

An assortment of writers, including Michelle Tea, Malinda Lo, Darnell Moore, and Miguel Morales, answer a few questions about the nature of queer writing…. read more

Trask’s book makes an important contribution toward understanding how the conceptualizations of homosexuality of the New Left, the countercultural radicals, and the liberal establishment in the academy influenced how the Gay Liberation Movement emerged in the 60s…. read more

Academic freedom, and, simply put, teaching in general, is a precarious enterprise for the queer adjunct…. read more

If everyone is used to objectifying women, like it’s just a thing used to sell toothpaste and jeans and trick us into watching rom-coms, how do you write about sex and the erotic in a way that only the intended audience is picking up what you’re putting down?… read more

In exploring how sex was imagined in the nineteenth century, author Peter Coviello examines the writings of figures as diverse as the founder of Mormonism Joseph Smith and black abolitionist Frederick Douglas. … read more

Kate Bornstein’s memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, hereafter QPD, featured as the capstone of my “American Literature” course last spring semester. James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, and Kate Bornstein—these were the writers whose “autobiographical” texts comprised my syllabus. These are the writers I felt best encapsulated a very specific frame of… read more

Last year the world was captivated by the brazen acts of the Russian group Pussy Riot, whose “Punk Prayer” landed them in jail and at the center of a political firestorm. But Pussy Riot’s actions, while a deliberately outrageous reaction to the misogynist strictures of Putin’s Russia, are not unique. Indeed, as Sara Warner explains… read more

Jagose’s latest project is a continuation of her study of how to separate sex from sexuality; her focus on the orgasm is born from her observation that this idealized “thing” has been accorded little critical thought in queer studies…. read more

In Gaga Feminism (Beacon Press), J. Jack Halberstam makes a case for Lady Gaga to be considered in these terms for the potential of her masterful subversion of gender and sexual norms to bring about a possible “end of normal” altogether…. read more