Rejected everywhere, staged as a hoax, and finally published in a lesbian sex mag — Sarah Schulman’s “A Short Story About a Penis” has quite a history. Rachel Corbman uncovers its fascinating legacy in Signs’ new issue: check it out here! (sub. req’d):

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

The lesbian studies issue of @signsjournal.org is on the internet! It includes my article about Sarah Schulman’s slideshow about a fake lesbian writer & her real short story about a lesbian who wakes up with a penis.

Queer archives not only contain our past but help unlock community. @ainopihlak.bsky.social gathers terrific insights from @arquives.ca, @rachelcorbman.bsky.social, @invisiblehistories.bsky.social, @ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social, and @leatherarchives.bsky.social.

My article, “The Comedy of Chris E. Vargas: Trans Play at the Tipping Point,” is out now with CAMERA OBSCURA! 👯‍♂️🦜🦄📚 Shoot me a message if you’re having trouble accessing ;)

We have assembled to root on the Valks in their first playoff game 💜🪽🏀⚔️🐣

selfies

review of everyone watches dyke sports!

Frances Simpson (1857-1926) wrote a column called Practical Pussyology, which is what WGSS should really be called

Keeping it meta: my article about a 1979 special issue of Frontiers was just published in Frontiers’ special issue for the 50th anniversary of Frontiers muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

I’m actually really big in Germany

research assistant

"There should be a midnight showing of United in Anger every week like Rocky Horror where we say all the words that people say in their oral history interviews." -- @rachelcorbman.bsky.social

Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call: www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other

Oh no!! Just posted the call for submissions for ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, and the link got corrupted on my post!! Had to delete, even though so many people reposted, but I will repost in a moment, hopefully people will repost again 💕

I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.

apologies if my lesbian feminist disability book ends up being a micro history of a lesbian wheelchair basketball team in the Bay Area and the one time the sisters of perpetual indulgence functioned as their cheerleaders

After its own night at Barclays, everyone watches dyke sports is up at the LGBT Community Center National History Archive 🗽 Come see it in August or September!

Lesbians for Liberty flyer for kiss-in in 2002: “We’ve tried to play nice…We’ve e-mailed, called, talked to the press, leafleted, & held up signs. Now it’s time for a little old-fashioned lesbian direct action!” Can’t wait to see the Lesbian Herstory Archive exhibit at the Liberty game this Fri!

A history of the Lesbians for Liberty’s 2002 kiss-in protest, my lesbian youth, and the Lesbian Herstory Archives’ upcoming exhibit at Barclays www.them.us/story/lesbia...

"Capitalism is temporary. Dykes are forever" Seen in NYC

Jessie’s wnba bat mitzvah cake, 2003

SEND US YOUR GAYEST PHOTOS Submit here: liberty.scoreplay.fan/contests/con...

I am pleased to announce that my book manuscript is back in one word doc after 2.5 years of pulling it apart and putting it back together.

"The Nazis... imagined their targets would self-deport. Once the myth of self-deportation collapsed, they turned to more punitive measures. On Tuesday, Noem similarly noted the Everglades camp was meant to frighten immigrants into self-deporting. 'If you don’t,' she said, 'you may end up here.'"

Today in the archives: article about a trans woman and a trans man who wanted to get married in 1973 but couldn’t!

I am trying to find fan photos of the NY Liberty for a pop up exhibit during the pride game on July 25. Send me your most lesbianic photos here or at [email protected]. Here is a photo of my family with Maddie, the Liberty’s original mascot, at my sister’s WNBA themed Bat Mitzah in 2003.

last year, curve magazine named my friend, Désirée, as one of the 50 most most powerful LGBTQ women and nonbinary trailblazers. This year, Désirée needs our help. Please share and contribute what you can here: www.gofundme.com/f/hyw7j-help...

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

We said goodbye to my stepdaughter, Amelie, today. In her nineteen years, she traveled the country, beat up many dogs and cat sitters (she was 6 lb), wrote Jed’s book, ate so much string cheese, and served as a reluctant mentor to five younger cat and dog siblings. We’ll miss her very much.

Saw this whole out doing errands today

"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?" No: 85% Yes: 5% YouGov / June 22, 2025

Some things never change.

Hello, I’m Jewish. I think genocide is bad and Zohran Mamdani is good. Hope this help.

by the way!

“I’ll tell you a funny story… I’m in my early 20s when I’m teaching this course, but I have two very close friends who are, I think, 42 and I went to them and I said, ‘Would you come to my class and talk to my students about being and older lesbian and what it was like in the old days?”

so few queer archives are able to accept art, and Leslie Lohman only collects “good” art: archive of bad queer art when?

Staff who are being terminated from the National Endowment for the Humanities this coming week received their last full paycheck this weekend. A reminder that appropriations for full staff salaries were made through September 30, 2025. Terminating us now was never necessary, just cruel. #NEH

Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I will never forgive the 2000s media for shaming Madonna into forever covering her arms in public. Look what they stole from us.

from my parents’ house

hanging out with my friends

Artie is very curious to learn about enemy feminisms

my mom my found my Joan Jett autograph collection from my youth

back home with my son 📸 @jedsamer.bsky.social

This cat is named Brandy and, like a true New Yorker, she was very interested in the 18 bagels in my suitcase

IN THEORY, DARLING is out in the world today! my book-length ode to queer theory & to the life & legacy of theorist, José Esteban Muñoz.

this is so good. read read read!