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In ancient China (until the Sui Dynasty), castration was one of the Five Punishments, a series for physical punishments meted out by the Chinese penal system.
Paper, one of the Four Great Inventions, is said to have been invented during the Eastern…

Francisco Pelsaert, during his visit to the Mughal court as a Dutch merchant in the seventeenth century, took notes on the prestige and power enjoyed by the third gender, or eunuchs, in the imperial household. “They can get whatever they desire- fine…

Presenting a groundbreaking process for envisioning a world in which queer and trans people can show up fully as themselves in all of the places we call home.https://www.transformingheartscollective.org

We provide resources and support to our constituents who affirm the need for equity for all LGBTQ people as an inherent value of their faith or secular beliefs.https://www.thetaskforce.org/programs/queering-faith

Nikole Hannan-Jones, the author, uses the onset of British slavery in 1619 as a lens by which to examine contemporary problems in America.https://1619books.com/#about-the-1619-project

Lee was an Asian American transgender man who was misgendered in death. He was defended by his dear friends who get the law changed to protect him and other transgender people from being misgendered after death.

An interactive map of North America indicating the locations of the 523 schools (and 53 burial sites containing Native student bodies) established and operating between 1807 and…

Featuring a wet-plate collodion photograph of Haaland in 2019, when she was still a congresswoman.

Two historians, Jonathan Ned Katz and Tavia Nyong’o, present and analyze the story and visual depiction of Peter Sewally/Mary Jones, a Black transgender person in New York City, in 1836. First published on OutHistory in 2017. Adapted with permission…