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A history of pathologising trans women

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 by Era Magazine, posted in Culture

Cathy Brennan looks at the medical tradition of categorising trans women based on sexuality and its continuing power in transphobic politics.

How the Tignon Laws backfired

February 9, 2021 by Era Magazine, posted in Culture

Maxine Harrison remembers an oppressive law that sparked a new wave of independent self-expression.

A political history of ‘Afro Blue’

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 by Era Magazine, posted in Culture

Hugh Morris describes how a jazz track made the leap from song to symbol.

Fanfiction: an alternative pornographic history

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 by Era Magazine, posted in Culture

Kalli Dockrill asks where fanfiction - a site of sexual exploration in the twenty-first century, particularly for women - fits into a male-dominated history of erotica.

The rise, fall, and rise again of women’s football

December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in Culture

Rebecca Johnson writes about women's football in its first heyday, and the sustained campaign that barred women from the pitch for forty years.

The vagina missing from space

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in Culture

Jessica Thomson writes on the anatomic shortcomings of 1973's Pioneer Plaque, and the intergalactic implications of our censorship of human bodies.

Yugoslavia’s Roma women

December 6, 2020December 6, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in Culture

Maisie Revel examines the position of one of history's most marginalised groups in the Socialist Republic between 1945 and 1992.

What is hidden: the myth of the haughty servant

November 30, 2020December 1, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in Culture

Emily Sandercock examines the modern relevance of the threat posed by upstart servants to paranoid 18th- and 19th-century elites.

How comedy became resistance

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in Culture

Sophia Marshall writes on the historical relationship between laughter and political dissent.

The language of bushfires

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 by Era Magazine, posted in Culture

Pepe Bingham-Hall discusses the relationship between language and land conservation in light of the mismanagement of Australia's fires.

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