Queer Characters Feature in ‘Fat Ham’ and ‘Mercury;’ ‘The People’s Joker’ is a Trans Coming of Age Story
Sylvia Beach (1887–1962) and Adrienne Monnier (1892–1955) Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken May 4, 2023 0My loves were Adrienne Monnier, James Joyce and Shakespeare and Company — Sylvia Beach Literary Paris between the wars owed...
Modernism, Lesbianism, Paris, and Transit Points Between Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken April 6, 2023 0There are many definitions of Modernism, but for the moment we can think of Modernism as an artistic and social...
Mabel Hampton (1902–1989) Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken March 17, 2023 0What a life this Black butch queer Harlemite elder led! Her father took off before her birth and her mother...
Anna Rüling: Theodora “Theo” Anna Sprüngli (15 August 1880–8 May 1953) Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken March 17, 2023 0Long before Stonewall, openly queer people built a movement for our rights. Germany was a country where we pushed hard...
A Timeline of International Women’s Day Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken March 2, 2023 01907: Fifteen thousand working women hold a hunger march in New York City, protesting dangerous working conditions and asking for a...
Wallace Thurman, Harlem Renaissance Rebel: 1902–1934 Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken February 2, 2023 0“It was the bright young talents of the [19]20s who went cosmopolite when they were advised to go racial, who...
Jimmie Daniels: the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond (1908–1984) Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken January 19, 2023 0People say the Harlem Renaissance began with writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes and all the other...
Bricktop: Red Hair, Paris, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Woman with le Wow – 1894–1984 Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken January 6, 2023 0“Greatness comes from a person knowing who [s]he is, being satisfied with nothing but the best, and still behaving like...
Gloria Anzaldúa, Self-Described “Chicana Dyke-Feminist, Tejana Palache, Poet, Writer, and Cultural Theorist” Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken December 15, 2022 0Born to tenant farmers in the Rio Grande Valley, Gloria Anzaldúa’s family had fallen quite far from their original status...
Over, Under and In Between: the World’s First Queer Rights Movement Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken November 3, 2022 0Doing research on “Stonewall 50” (2019), I found nation after nation focused on that little bar at 53 Christopher Street...
The Pink Triangle Maria Helena Dolan Outspoken October 21, 2022 0Much has been written about the Pink Triangles, but the sufferings inflicted upon them only make sense if we think...