UT professor Lauren Gutterman discusses her spring 2021 course “Preserving Austin’s Queer History.”
Scholar Spotlight
In Kinship with Misfits
Nick Wignes-Yanez discusses what it means to belong to “a family of misfits.”
Transcestry Group Chat
Five scholars discuss trans philosophy, their past experiences, and where they see the field going.
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.
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.
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.
Celebrating Ten Years of the Black Queer Studies Collection at the UT Libraries
Gina Bastone details the University of Texas at Austin libraries’ Black Queer Studies Collection.
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.
What Mischief Can We Make Today? Queercore and OUTsider
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!]
