Photo of Satou Sabally wearing glasses

happy lesbian visibility week. Satou Sabally has just announced that she is “part of the glasses community now.”

A tweet that says the notion that the use of straps in lesbian relationships is heteronormative implies the existence of homonormativity in heterosexual sex

screen capped this tweet to explain butler’s argument about the instability of copy/original next time I teach imitation and gender insubordination

How did we get from Liza to Miley in one year?

omg @jedsamer.bsky.social has been a “sue bird and meg rapinoe have weird body language and are definitely on the verge of breaking up” truther for years

Queer and Trans Histories of Disability A few years ago, I decided to teach a course titled Queer and Trans Histories of Disability during a stint as a visiting lecturer at Mount Holyoke College. I created the class, in part, as an opportun...

Review # 13 of "Disability Works" is out in GLQ. A thrill to be reviewed by Rachel Corbman in this essay on Queer and Trans Disability History alongside Kunzel's fabulous "In the Shadow of Diagnosis" and Whatcott's "Menace to the Future" (which I look forward to reading!).

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A lesbian on her experience at identity house: “I learned that gay men are people too. That they have feelings.”

I’m listening to this tape of a panel of gay and lesbian therapists from the 1970s and the gay men are all obsessed with accidentally having sex with their clients in bathhouses and the lesbians are all obsessed with what happens if they run into their clients at poetry readings

Preparing a guest lecture on Rent and so far the only visual component of my PowerPoint is Sarah Schulman’s headshot

after 1.5 years in Phoenix, I need a jacket when it’s 80

It’s true, I’m bad in bed.

sooooo glad that a medical doctor concurs with me that @jedsamer.bsky.social is terrible at sleeping. This was my assessment as a doctor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.

A photo of me holding the April 2026 issue of GLQ

A photo of the opening page of my state of the field review essay

ohhh the new GLQ, with my state of the field review essay on queer and trans histories of disability, just arrived in my mailbox

so excited to share my research about gay conferences at a gay conference about a gay conference. The dream.

SEQC50 Conference | April 10-11 2026 — SEQC50 SEQC50 celebrates 50 years of queer Southern activism, honoring the 1976 Southeastern Gay Conference at UNC-Chapel Hill. Join scholars, artists, organizers, and community members for panels, speakers,...

This weekend at UNC we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first Southeastern Gay Conference with the Southeastern Queer Conference, seqc50.com. We're thrilled that @rachelcorbman.bsky.social is our keynote speaker!

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

sometimes @jedsamer.bsky.social yells “quick give me a phone” and then they return my phone thirty minutes later with 55 videos of Artie cat chirping at birds

I was trying to convince my friend (58) that she can still date a wnba player because if you just listen to sportscasters talk about any wnba player over the age of 28 you would swear that they were 58.

it’s tall lesbian pride this weekend*

*the women’s final four is in Phoenix

and it says “fuck work” 🤣

this is everything 🤣

of course there’s a computer in the background 🤣

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

The word blurb was coined in 1906 by American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866–1951).[2] The October 1906 first edition of his short book Are You a Bromide? was presented in a limited edition to an annual trade association dinner. The custom at such events was to have a dust jacket promoting the work and with, as Burgess' publisher B. W. Huebsch described it, "the picture of a damsel—languishing, heroic, or coquettish—anyhow, a damsel on the jacket of every novel". In this case, the jacket proclaimed "YES, this is a 'BLURB'!" and the picture was of a (fictitious) young woman "Miss Belinda Blurb" shown calling out, described as "in the act of blurbing." The name and term stuck for any publisher's contents on a book's back cover, even after the picture was dropped and only the text remained.

The original Belinda Blurb

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

The people who pedantically asked "is it fascism" walked so that the "what counts as a concentration camp" could run.

Frances Doughty on the importance of personal relationships to the history of lesbian feminism:

“If gossip is accurate, it’s history.”

State of the field review titled queer and trans histories of disability

page proofs! coming out in GLQ

Longhaired tabby lounging in the sunshine with her paws stretched out

Princess Artie 👑

Nathaniel meeting poodles with glasses

Nathaniel’s reflection in one of the poodle’s glasses

Nathaniel made some friends at the Phoenix Flea

Cat upside down in a sunspot

she’s having a great time rolling around in the sun