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From the Archives: An LGBTQIA+ Pride Month Reading List
The journals of Hopkins Press offer a real bounty of art, research, and thinking about LGBTQIA people and culture around the world. This month, we've collected a cross section of 40+ articles spanning 28 of our journals! We'll be reading these all month long...
Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self
I wrote Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self to account for an experience that I think is fairly common, but which has not often been described in academic queer theory: the act of discovering an empowered, socially oppositional sense of...
A Changing Military, an Entrenched Culture
Earlier this month, the Marine Corps and other branches of the U.S. armed forces came under fire after service members posted nude and partially nude photos of their fellow personnel to Facebook and other websites. When Marine veteran Erika Butner discovered...
Recovering the Experiences of the Black Greatest Generation
Historians have overlooked the way black veterans of the greatest generation recalled their service during World War II. I argue the problem is that historians are too preoccupied with finding the origins of the civil rights movement in the wartime experiences...