NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about histories of sex and sexualities in the past and in the present across regions, periods and themes.
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New on NOTCHES: “Come to My Cottage: Queer Pleasures and Female Fandom in the Silent Hollywood Era” by Diana W. Anselmo.
Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4UE
#FandomHistory #Herstory #QueerHistory #QueerFandom #HeatedRivalry
New on NOTCHES: What Franco’s Archives Accidentally Preserved About Queer Life in Spain by Javier Fernández-Galeano.
Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4VR
How did the state’s repressive apparatus inadvertently preserve traces of queer intimacy, erotic life, and dissident desire?
#QueerHistory #SpanishHistory
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The archive was a technology of power that paradoxically ended up preserving the very traces of queer life it set out to eradicate.
From the Batcave and the Cha Cha Club to the pages of The Face and i-D, Brogan traces how gender nonconforming aesthetics reshaped alternative youth culture and challenged dominant ideas of masculinity, sexuality, and visibility in Thatcher-era Britain.
