I was interviewed about my work for Reckon, a great way to end Pride month! 🏳️‍🌈🧱📚reckon.news/lgbtq/2024/06/… UNC Press

Cookie Woolner, a punk rock drummer turned scholar, has a groundbreaking new book, The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall, highlighting how queer people constructed their own safe havens and communities reckon.news/lgbtq/2024/06/…

Today is the official publication day for my new book, I Know You Are, but What Am I? On Pee-wee Herman from U of MN Press. You can pick up a copy here or read the ebook for free: upress.umn.edu/9781517918286/…. Get 40% with code MN91270

apropos of nothing, a gorgeous collection people should check out before making blanket statements about people from Appalachia. proud to say my student ⁦Maxwell Cloe⁩ is a contributor.

Apply now for a 2025 ACLS Fellowship, supporting scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences! Awards of $30-60k + additional funding for independent scholars, adjunct faculty & faculty in teaching-intensive roles. Deadline Sept. 25, 9PM EDT bit.ly/3Q0Oi5I

The LGBTQ Committee of Organization of American Historians is accepting submissions for the John D'Emilio Dissertation Award. Anyone who completed a dissertation between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024 is eligible. The deadline is October 1. Please circulate widely. More info here: oah.org/awards/awards-…

🎉 Very excited that my book, “The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice,” has been listed on the Duke University Press website!

It's been a long journey but thrilled to see my new book in print. Many thanks to the team at LSU Press for the fine work to craft a beautiful book.

📚Final selections for my grad course on African American women’s #history. Read with us! ♥️

Thank you for assigning my book Dr. Keisha N. Blain! Honored to be in this fabulous stack.

Did you finish a dissertation on US LGBT history between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024? Submit your dissertation for consideration of the John Organization of American Historians D’Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award. Due October 1, 2024. SHARE WIDELY! More info here: oah.org/awards/awards-….

Thanks to Katie Uva for interviewing me about The Famous Lady Lovers for Gotham Center for New York City History! UNC Press gothamcenter.org/blog/famous-la…

The Department of History at The University of Memphis, seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Public History beginning in August 2025. indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=e…

ICYMI: for the blog, Katie Uva Katie Uva recently interviewed Cookie Woolner Cookie Woolner about her recent work, The Famous Lady Lovers. Read more about Woolner's work on the lives and communities of queer Black women in the 1920s and 1930s here: gothamcenter.org/blog/famous-la…

New review by a scholar I’ve been anxious to read thoughts from. It’s a real privilege to have your work engaged with and appreciated!! s-usih.org/2024/10/austin- mccoy-on-katherine-rye-jewells-live-from-the-underground-a-history-of-college-radio/

This Tuesday (11/12) at 6 pm CST: Please join novel. in welcoming Eva Payne, in conversation with Cookie Woolner, to celebrate the release of her new book Empire of Purity. For more details, visit: hubs.ly/Q02Xz7ft0

Memphis! Come out tomorrow and hear one of the best in the business do her thing! Amrita Myers has written a powerful book, and her musings on slavery are illuminating. Come out if you can!

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Looking forward to talking about the queer blues women in a speakeasy setting, with live performances of their songs! It’s free on Thursday at 7pm at Culture Lab in Queens! 🌈American LGBTQ+ Museum UNC Press