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Q&A with Roger Lancaster, author ofThe Struggle to Be Gay-in Mexico, for Example
Nov 06 2023
Through a rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the material foundations of sexual identity, The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example makes a compelling argument for the centrality of social class in gay life. Known for his writings on the construction of sexual identities, anthropologist and cult
Q&A with Diana W. Anselmo, author of A Queer Way of Feeling
Apr 11 2023
Part of our Feminist Media Histories series, A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intim
UC Press February Award Winners
Mar 10 2023
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our February 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Kaveh Askari 2023 Katherine Singer Kovàcs Book AwardSociety for Cinema and Medi
Understanding Black Queer Male Survivors’ Experiences of Sexual Assault
Dec 02 2022
By Doug Meyer, author of Violent Differences: The Importance of Race in Sexual Assault against Queer MenThis post was originally published on The Society Pages and is reposted here with permission.Sexual assault has received increasing attention in recent years, since the hashtag #MeToo spre
Marc Stein: How to Become a Queer Historian
Jun 21 2022
This interview was originally published on Public Seminar and is reproduced here with permission.Marc SteinMarc Stein is Professor of History at San Francisco State University, where he teaches U.S. law, politics, sexuality, gender, race, and social movements. He’s also an old friend: we met
Shedding Light on Neglected Histories and Herstories of Radical Urban Communities: An Interview with LALVC Contributor Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa
Sep 15 2020
As we begin National Hispanic Heritage Month, we invited Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture contributor Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa to talk about her ALAA award-winning article "Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies: Queer Latina/x Visual and Performance Cultures in San Francisco Strip Clubs, 196