Open Call for Submissions — Voices of the Campus Protest Movement:

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A fun exercise is to imagine how this would be reported by American news media if it was happening elsewhere in the world.

It was fun to talk to Alex Berg for NBC Out about the resurgence of all things 'sapphic,' just in time for Lesbian Visibility Week! UNC Press nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-li…

Exciting news for Lavender Literary Society members! Mark your calendars for our kickoff event on April 29th at 7 PM ET! We’re honored to host Raquel Willis (she/her) with guest facilitator, Mx B. Hawk Snipes (they/she), as they discuss our inaugural book selection. RSVP at bit.ly/3w44Hlk

Two jobs available with Transgender Educational Network: Theory in Action for Creativity, Liberation, Empowerment and Service (TEN:TACLES). A short-term part-time temp admin asst position and a full-time w/ bennies program manager. glbthistory.org/jobs-internshi…

PUBLICATION DAY THREAD! 🧵Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History is officially out today from Columbia Univ Press! If you don’t already have your copy, you can use discount code CUP20 cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered…

I’ll be reading from THE FAMOUS LADY LOVERS briefly tonight along with some of the other Publishing Triangle finalists! 7pm ET live on YouTube: youtube.com/@bgsqd?si=zZoP… UNC Press 🏳️‍🌈📚

Folks who’ve made it to Organization of American Historians #OAH2024 #OAH24 , come on out to our 11am roundtable tomorrow on Doing Queer Southern Public History Now with Maigen Rooks and others ! 🏳️‍🌈⚜️

My new book on Pee-wee Herman is now available for pre-order! I Know You Are, but What Am I? is about what Pee-wee meant and means to queer folks, written through the playhouse, Reuben's arrest, and broken talking dolls. Coming in July from U of MN Press.

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New Yorkers! Join me on Monday night for the final FIRST MONDAYS of the season - with new work-in-progress from three great writers: Kaitlyn Greenidge, novelist and Harper's Bazaar editor, Kerri Greenidge, historian and professor, and Kirsten Greenidge, professor and playwright.

Introducing the Lavender Literary Society Book Club—a space for community, connection, and the magic of storytelling! 📚✨ Join us as we dive into popular queer history and memoirs, starting with 'The Risk It Takes To Bloom' by Raquel Willis (she/her) Sign up: bit.ly/43Irtf1

Tomorrow! My last virtual event for a while, RSVP below! UNC Press 🏳️‍🌈📚

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Department of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies (SWAGS) at Amherst College invites applications for a one-year full-time visiting appointment at the rank of visiting assistant professor, starting on July 1, 2024
apply.interfolio.com/143328.  Review begins 4/15 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Come and study with me this summer. Undergrads only. NY based. No fee. bcrw.barnard.edu/projects/femin…

At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children.

You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN!

Happy 71st Birthday to Grammy Award winning singer Chaka Khan!

I’m absolutely delighted to share the cover of my book, which will be published by UNC Press this fall. Many thanks to the design team at the Press and everybody who made this possible.

Excited to cap off Women’s History Month with this! UNC Press

Congrats to our finalists for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction!

The Famous Lady Lovers by Cookie Woolner

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

Suffering Sappho! by Barbara Jane Brickman

We the Parasites by A.V. Marraccini

UNC Press
Rutgers University
Sublunary Editions

Can’t wait!

I partnered with Kindea Labs to make an animated video to explain the concept of #Blacksound from my book.

I hope that the video allows people to grasp the complexity of the concept in its simplest terms before reading the book: ucpress.edu/book/978052039… University of California Press