How have non-normative sex and sexualities been historically depicted and censored across media? How do sexual acts configure (or do not) into understandings of queer history?
This week is we'll be thinking about how to read (queer) sex in archival sources. In our sources, Meredith Batt & Dusty Green explore photos of Len & Cub and ask how we can see evidence of their relationship, intimacy, and infer physical affection. Cameron Duder takes us through a brief history of romantic friendships and explores how sex is coded into the language used in letters between women.
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📖 Cameron Duder, “Physical Sexuality: ‘How did you get here Miss Brown?’,” in Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65 (Vancouver, Toronto: UBC Press, 2010), 74-91.
📖 Meredith J. Batt and Dusty Green, “The Pursuit of Affection,” in Len & Cub: A Queer History (Fredericton, Goose Lane Editions, 2022), 65-77.
