February 2018

Make-Believe Land: Pleasure in Black Girls’ Lives

Podcast by Erin Rosenfeld, John Stookey, and Annette Mokua. Article information: LaKisha Simmons, “Make-Believe Land: Pleasure in Black Girls’ Lives,” in Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans (University of North Carolina Press, 2015), 174-205.

A root of white male entitlement

Leah Johnson, Annie Li, Anna Billy, Ruby Lynn Article our podcast focused on: Susan Freeman, “Postwar Sex Education and the Roots of White Male Sexual Entitlement,”Notches (Blog), February 24, 2018 (1:01 pm), http://notchesblog.com/2016/10/13/postwar-sex-education-and-the-roots-of-while-male-sexual-entitlement/ Article Referenced in our podcast: Stein, Marc. “Race, Class, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Doctrine of Heteronormative Supremacy.” InConnexions: Histories of Race and… Read more A root of white male entitlement

The Nexus of Sex and Work: An Analysis

By Emma Kalkowski-Farrand, Indira Kapur, and Martha Beliveau Bibliography Downs, Jim. “With Only a Trace: Same-Sex Desire and Violence on Slave Plantations, 1607-1865.” In Connexions, edited Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, Jennifer L. Morgan, 15-37. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Hayward, Claire. “Queer Terminology: LGBTQ Histories and the Semantics of Sexuality.” Notches. June 9, 2016. http://notchesblog.com/2016/06/09/queer-terminology-lgbtq-… Read more The Nexus of Sex and Work: An Analysis

Furries and the Problem of the Fetish

Furries and the Problem of the Fetish Short Podcast by Jessica Daly, Nicole Rosengurt, and Lillie Westbrook Bibliography Pietz, William. “The Problem of the Fetish, I.” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics No. 9 (April 01, 1985): 5-17. Accessed February 25, 2018. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20166719 Simo. “An Informal History of Furry Fandom.” An Informal History of Furry Fandom. 2009.… Read more Furries and the Problem of the Fetish

Sexy Chins: The Erotics of Chin Chucking

  Lila Cardozo, Sidney Litke, and Niya Weedon discuss the Erotics of Chin Chucking by Will Fisher. Edited by Alayna Costner. Bibliography Fisher, Will. “The Erotics of Chin Chucking in Seventeenth-Century England.” In Sex before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England, edited by Bromley James M. and Stockton Will, by Traub Valerie, 141-69.… Read more Sexy Chins: The Erotics of Chin Chucking

Thinking About the Berdache

Richard C. Trexler, “Making the American Berdache: Choice or Constraint?” Journal of Social History 35.3 (2002), 613-636. Julia Laite, “Historians are Gossips Who Tease the Dead,” Notches, September 30, 2014. http://notchesblog.com/2014/09/30/historians-are-gossips-who-tease-the-dead/