Queer History that Surprises, Frustrates, Embarrasses, and Delights
“Queer history has a problem with memory,” Jennifer Evans contends in her rich and bold monograph that encourages its readers to think, and to think […]
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Seeing, Hearing, and Writing History Differently: Queer Kinship after Fascism
It is a pleasure and privilege to read and reflect on such a rich, urgent, and ambitious book. Jennifer Evans’ The Queer Art of History: […]
Do Wash Your Dirty Linen in Public! On the Potential of Conflict in Queer German History
French women used to gather at the communal laundry to wash clothes. While doing so, they exchanged precious information, shared the latest news, and created […]
What is the Direction of Queer Kinship? On Jennifer Evans’s The Queer Art of History
I was reading Jennifer V. Evans’ magnificent The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism in the summer of 2023. As books have a […]
Entanglements and Contingencies of Queer Lives in Postwar Germany: In Prospect of a Different Future
Seldom have I read such a mindful, emotionally, intellectually, and politically mature and thought-provoking history of post-fascist Germany, which captured my attention from the acknowledgments […]
Appropriateness, Consent, and Intergenerational Kinship: Discussions of Herbert Tobias’s Manfred Schubert
The Queer Art of History: Kinship After Fascism narrates the lives of LGBTQ+ people through the practice of queer kinship following the Second World War […]
Queer Roma
Occasionally, we will feature new publications on themes related to the New Fascism Syllabus. Here, Lucie Fremlova provides the first detailed study of queer Roma, […]
The Philosophers Have Only Interpreted the World…
Chiselled into the marble wall of Humboldt University’s grand main building in Berlin is the famous quote (often ill-used, not least by the SED regime) […]
In Support of Difficult History
Anna Hájková, a historian of sexuality in the Holocaust, notes that investigating queer and other “deviant” sexuality requires a certain stamina. Probing the gaps in […]
