the feminist librarian

Mildred Mitchell sitting under a frescoed wall (1918). Massachusetts Historical Society This week, I was contacted by a PhD candidate d...

Molly Haskell at a book signing for My Brother, My Sister  ( via ) Just before leaving on vacation, I was asked to review the new memoi...

I've been seeing this statement coming through on my RSS and Twitter feed for the last few days, and have finally had a moment to sit do...

To: abross@npr.org From: feministlibrarian@gmail.com Re: Chelsea Manning Dear Ms. Bross, I am contacting you as a lifetime listener an...

About a year ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by London-based journalist Rachel Hills for her forthcoming book, The Sex Myth  (S...

unidentified classroom, possibly in Georgia ( Library of Congress ) I subscribe to a number of listservs through H-Net , an online hub f...

See part one and part two for the context of this post. So having explored fan fiction generally (and why I'm drawn to it) and eroti...

I wrote another post for In Our Words this week on how parents (and allies) can support children in their gender independence and sexual f...

Modern-day campaigns for civil rights and equal citizenship for queer folks tend to conjure up a progressive trajectory from exclusion to ...

more about Diana On March 19th our good friend (and Hanna's former roomie) Diana Kiyo Wakimoto became the first PhD candidate in the...

Until I fell in love with my partner, Hanna, I generally conceptualized myself as "mostly straight." This was because, despite t...