Interregnum interviews @jacobengelberg.bsky.social on his new book, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression. The book argues that the way we look at queer film centres the gay/straight binary and considers what happens when bisexuality breaks the rules.
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Join us at 7pm on April 24 for the launch of The Game of Chance: Unaccompanied Minors in Italy and the Risk of ‘Going Back to Square One’ at May Day Rooms, 88 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1DH.
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Have spent this month mostly reading about intimate partner violence and sexual violence statistics. So far this paper depressed me the most. It found that in 2023 an estimated 18.9% of females and 14.8% of males aged 20+ are survivors of child sex abuse.
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Source: Margaret Law Callcott, ed and trans., Mistress of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert 1795-1821, (The John Hopkins University Press, 1991), 334, 340.
Am struggling with rad libs in gender history. Today I read an academic say that women weren't passive victims of the expanding Aztec empire which demanded cloth (made by women) as tribute because they *checks notes* started making stew so they could make other stuff like cloth whilst it cooked.
An 1871 editorial article in the New York Times argued that women should not be granted the right to vote or hold political office because they *check notes* wear high heels and so are clearly senseless and just mindlessly follow trends. Misogyny is so bizarre.
Source: Elizabeth Semmelhack, Shoes: The Meaning of Style (Reaktion Books, 2017), p178.
Two baptists knocked on my door and asked me where life came from. They were not ready for my five minute monologue explaining what a prokaryote is.
Read a 1819 letter by a white woman complaining about how overwhelmed she is by domestic labour because her husband doesn't help around the house and she has to manage 'the servants' by herself. What she called 'the servants' included slaves. One wonders what the slaves thought about this.
Join us in London on April 24, 2026 for the launch of the English translation of The Game of Chance : Unaccompanied Minors in Italy and the Risk of ‘Going Back to Square One’ (May Day Rooms, 19.00 to ...
