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June 1, 2022 (May 31, 2022)

Free Ebook Giveaway: BLACK QUEER FREEDOM

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June’s free ebook is here! Check out Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire by GerShun Avilez before the month is over!  Whether engaged in same-sex desire […]

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April 1, 2022 (March 28, 2022)

Free Ebook Giveaway: Queering the Global Filipina Body

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April’s free ebook is here! Check out Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora by Gina K. Velasco before the month is over!  Contemporary popular culture […]

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July 1, 2021 (June 28, 2021)

July Free Ebook Giveaway: Rocking the Closet

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July’s free ebook is here! We’re giving away Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music by Vincent L. Stephens! The all-embracing, “whaddya […]

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March 30, 2021 (April 14, 2021)

Pioneering Women in Cinema and Theater Reading List

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From the beginnings of silent films to the talkies we have now, women have played a pivotal role in the development of film whether it be behind the scenes or […]

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November 18, 2020 (October 27, 2020)

Q&A with GerShun Avilez, Author of Black Queer Freedom

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Author, GerShun Avilez, of Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire answers questions about his familial influences, discoveries and purpose for writing his book. Q: Why did […]

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June 23, 2020 (June 19, 2020)

Essential Pride Month Reading List

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This Pride Month, we invite our readers to honor the contributions of LGBTQ+ activists with this collection of some of our recent titles featuring a range of experiences within diverse […]

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February 7, 2020 (February 5, 2020)

Queer Timing Awarded the Pop Culture Association’s John Leo and Dana Heller Award

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We are pleased to announce Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema by Susan Potter is this year’s winner of the Pop Culture Association’s John Leo and […]

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June 27, 2019 (June 19, 2019)

Q&A with Susan Potter, author of “Queer Timing”

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Susan Potter is lecturer in film studies at the University of Sydney. She recently answered some questions about her new book, Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema. Q: […]

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May 15, 2019 (May 6, 2019)

Angelique Harris on “Emotions, Feelings, and Social Change”

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Dr. Angelique Harris is the founding director of the Center for Gender and Sexualities Studies and the Gender and Sexualities Studies Program and is an associate professor of sociology  in […]

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June 20, 2018 (June 14, 2018)

Celebrating Pride Month

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To celebrate Pride Month throughout June, check out these five books that discuss important figures in the LGBTQ+ community and the issues surrounding the fight for gay rights. Lana and […]

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February 22, 2017

Funk the Power, Funk the Erotic

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“We have just witnessed a spectacular demonstration of the failures of a national, political imagination. Many of us feel devastated, afraid, and confused. There is no better time than this […]

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January 5, 2017 (December 15, 2016)

Separating families for enslavement

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Excerpted from Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage, by Sowande’ M. Mustakeem The nature of slavery inflicted permanent scars as traders moved purchased captives off […]

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