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Scholar Spotlight

July 21, 2021, Filed Under: Scholar Spotlight, Spotlight

Austin’s Queer Migration History

Group of people marching and holding signs. The person in the front wears a hat, necklace, and sunglasses with a sign that reads "HIGH FEMME HARD DYKE LEZBHONEST... WE NEED TO ABOLISH ICE!".

UT professor Lauren Gutterman discusses her spring 2021 course “Preserving Austin’s Queer History.”

March 8, 2021, Filed Under: Scholar Spotlight, Spotlight

In Kinship with Misfits

Promo banner for Trans Thinking//Thinking Trans Conference with black and white photo of keynote speaker Cam Awkward-Rich looking toward camera while laying on a couch.

Nick Wignes-Yanez discusses what it means to belong to “a family of misfits.”

March 1, 2021, Filed Under: Scholar Spotlight, Spotlight

Transcestry Group Chat

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Five scholars discuss trans philosophy, their past experiences, and where they see the field going.

October 13, 2020, Filed Under: Scholar Spotlight

Breathtaking Whirlwind

Priscilla Ferreira shares her experience with the Second International Gathering of Women Who Struggle, and how it has impacted her experience of the coronavirus pandemic.

September 16, 2020, Filed Under: Scholar Spotlight

Favorites from the Black Queer Studies Collection: Frottage

Faith Williams reviews Keguro Macharia’s book,​ Frottage: Frictions of Intimacy Across the Black Diaspora, part of UT Libraries’ Black Queer Collection.

September 16, 2020, Filed Under: Scholar Spotlight

Favorites from the Black Queer Studies Collection: Black Enuf

Anthony Douglass reviews Carrie Hawks’s animated documentary Black Enuf, viewing it as a touchpoint for his own journey to accepting his Blackness and queerness.

September 16, 2020, Filed Under: Scholar Spotlight

Celebrating Ten Years of the Black Queer Studies Collection at the UT Libraries

Black and white book cover of "No Tea, No Shade" edited by E. Patrick Johnson, and. featuring profile photos of two shirtless Black men, one holding a tea cup.

Gina Bastone details the University of Texas at Austin libraries’ Black Queer Studies Collection.

September 14, 2020, Filed Under: Scholar Spotlight

Favorites from the Black Queer Studies Collection: Sweet Tea

Terrane Ansley reviews E. Patrick Johnson’s book of curated stories and legacies of several Black gay southern men who lived and loved in the mid- to late twentieth century.

June 7, 2020, Filed Under: Scholar Spotlight, Spotlight

What Mischief Can We Make Today? Queercore and OUTsider

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Growing up a shy, effeminate fag in small town Massachusetts in the 1980s and early 90s was an education in alienation. [This post includes a Queercore music playlist curated by Curran Nault!]

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