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Our Dyke Histories
by Jack Gieseking with Sinister Wisdom
Come for the history; stay for the revolution, gossip, and desire that built it. 🤌 About Us :: Decade by decade, Our Dyke Histories dives deep into the living, breathing past and present of lesbian, queer, bisexual, trans, & nonbinary communities. Each season traces how we made space for ourselves—sometimes in bars, bookstores, and protests; sometimes in basements, alleyways, and prisons; & always against the odds. Host :: Our Dyke Histories is hosted by historian, geographer, and environmental psychologist Dr. Jack Jen Gieseking, and produced in collaboration with Sinister Wisdom, the oldest lesbian multicultural literary and art journal. <st
Episodes
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The Bar Is Just the Beginning, 2010s-2020s with Krista Burton, Theo Greene & Greggor Mattson
What makes a queer bar last—and what happens when we stop expecting a bar to be just a bar? In this episode of Our Dyke Histories, Jack Gieseking returns with Krista Burton, Greggor Mattson, and Theo Greene to explore the changing worlds of dyke bars*. The conversation asks what these spaces need...
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Pulse, Trump, and the Politics of Queer Space, 2010s-2025 with Krista Burton, Theo Greene & Greggor Mattson
What happens to queer nightlife when the bar is no longer just a place to drink, cruise, or hook up—but one of the places where we figure out how to be together? In this episode of Our Dyke Histories, Jack Gieseking talks with Krista Burton, Greggor Mattson, and Theo Greene about lesbian bars,...
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The Party on Tuesday: The Space-Time of Black Queer Women, 2000s-2020s with Kemi Adeyemi and Nikki Lane
What happens when we age out of the club, but don't age out of wanting to party? In part two of this conversation on Black queer women and Black trans folks, Jack Gieseking talks with Nikki Lane and Kemi Adeyemi about house parties, queer nightlife vs/& queer afternoonlife, aging, and the many…
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Black Queer Women, Parties, and the Right to the City, 2000s-2020s with Kemi Adeyemi and Nikki Lane
What does it take to make a Black queer space? What happens when the bar isn’t necessarily the "bar"?And what happens when the space you have is temporary, expensive, gentrifying, imperfect—or all four at once? In this episode of Our Dyke Histories, Jack Gieseking brings together two leading...
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Did The L Word Kill the Lesbian Bar?: Trish Bendix, Katherine Griffiths, & Mairead Sullivan, 1990s-2000s
Did The L Word kill the lesbian bar? In the second part of our ’90s and ’00s series, Jack Gieseking is joined by Mairead Sullivan, Katherine Griffiths, and Trish Bendix to discuss this and many other complicated questions. Lesbian bars began declining in the 1990s, but the episode looks beyond…
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Lesbian Chic, Dyke Politics: Trish Bendix, Katherine Griffiths, & Mairead Sullivan, 1990s-2000s
Welcome to dyke bars* in the 1990s and the 2000s! Jack Gieseking joins Mairead Sullivan, Katherine Griffiths, and Trish Bendix to talk about queer parties, lesbian bars, identity, sex, music, and the changing geography of queer life. From My Sister’s Room in Atlanta and Tease in Chicago to…
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How to Be an Activist: the 1980s from Auntie Valerie Walker
In this extra 1980s episode of Our Dyke Histories, Jack Gieseking sits down again with one of his favorite people. activist and artist, legendary Auntie Valerie Walker to talk about bars, dancing, organizing, racism, AIDS, ACT UP, the Lesbian Avengers, and the queer joy that keeps us connected....
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But Do We Get to Stay?: Sex, Gentrification, and the 1980s, with Sarah Schulman, Katherine V. Forrest, & Valarie Walker
In this episode of Our Dyke Histories, we keep rocking through the 1980s: sex wars, lesbian bars, gentrification, bookstores, health centers, fiction, and the complicated work of building community. Jack Gieseking talks with Katherine V. Forrest, Sarah Schulman, and Valerie Walker about the…
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The 1980s: Sex, Space, and Survival, with Sarah Schulman, Valarie Walker, & Katherine V. Forrest
Welcome to the 1980s! In the first of two episodes on the decade, Jack Gieseking is joined by novelist and essayist Sarah Schulman, mystery writer Katherine V. Forrest, and activist Valerie Walker to talk dyke bars, queer parties, sex, race and racism, AIDS, activism, and the worlds we made from...
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The Bars Are Ours: Queer Nightlife, AIDS, and Community in the 1980s & 1990s, with Lucas Hilderbrand
In this episode, Jack talks with historian Lucas Hilderbrand about the transformation of lesbian, queer, and trans nightlife during the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing from Hilderbrand's The Bars Are Ours, the conversation traces the shift from neighborhood lesbian bars and lgbtq bars to super queer...
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Teaser: It Is Time to Get Back to Dyke Bars*
We’re backkkkkkkk. Get ready for the theorists and the activists, the lovers and the fighters, the rock stars and the resistance, the friendships and definitely the f*ckers (of all types) – welcome back to Our Dyke Histories! In this second part of our first season, we are continuing to create…
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Sex Work, Bars, and Picnics before Stonewall, 1930s-1970s Detroit with Roey Thorpe
In this season one finale, Jack talks with historian Roey Thorpe about lesbian and queer life in Detroit from the 1930s through the early 1970s, before and beyond Stonewall. Centering working-class bars, sex work economies, and informal gathering spaces like softball and picnics, the episode…
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A House Where Black Queers Go, 1930s-1970s Detroit with Roey Thorpe
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Finding the Movement: Queer Space, Dance, and Survival, 1970s Detroit, Chicago, & Minneapolis with Finn Enke
In part two of their conversation about the 1970s, Jack Gieseking and Finn Enke travel through Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis to ask what it meant to find—and build—lesbian, queer, trans, feminist, and dyke worlds. Public space was never simply public, especially for lezbiqueertrans people: it...
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Dollar Parties, Bookstores, and Constellations of Lezbiqueertrans Life, 1970s Detroit, Chicago, & Minneapolis with Finn Enke
Recorded just before the ICE invasions of the Upper Midwest, this episode takes up queer people’s enduring creativity in making life possible in the Upper Midwest during the 1970s—and why these histories matter urgently now. In this first of a two-part conversation, host Jack Gieseing interviews...
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Lesbian Potentiality 4ever: Consciousness Raising & the Birth of WOC Feminism, 1970s
Episode 8 of Our Dyke Histories takes us into the revolutionary cultural work of the late 1970s—from consciousness-raising circles to the birth of women of color feminism with all of the work that preceded the creation, production, and envisioning of the most core women's studies text of all…
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Softball, Separatism, and the Shescape Seven, 1970s
Episode 7 of Our Dyke Histories breaks open the messy, brilliant contradictions of 1970s lesbian life. Join host Jack Jen Gieseking in conversation with lifelong activist Maxine Wolfe, historian and podcaster June Thomas, and literary scholar and historian SaraEllen Strongman. Together, they…
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Holigays Special: B.D. Woman's Blues for You
While we'll back next, this short holigays hallo is sharing one of the queerest songs in blues history. Enjoy! B.D. Woman’s Blues Song by Lucille Bogan Coming a time, B.D. women ain't gon' need no men Coming a time, B.D. womens ain't gon' to need no men Oh, the way treat us is a lowdown and dirty...
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The Gender of Desire: Joan Nestle’s Last Interview
In this deeply moving and often electric episode, Our Dyke Histories sits with legendary writer, activist, and Lesbian Herstory Archives co-founder Joan Nestle in her last interview as she reflects on the queer worlds that shaped her life in the 1940s–1960s. Joan guides us through her Friday…
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Queer Pulp, Dark Bars & the Police State, 1940s-1960s
In this episode of Our Dyke Histories, we travel deep into the smoky lesbian bars, queer parties (house, rent, and otherwise), and clandestine love affairs of the 1940s–60s with three powerhouse historians: Joan Nestle, Hugh Ryan, and Alix Genter. Together, with host Jack Jen Gieseking, they...
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Love, Bulldaggers, and the Birth of Lesbian Research, 1920s-1930s
In this episode of Our Dyke Histories, we continue to follow the astonishing life of Eve Adams into exile — the butch, Jewish, immigrant anarchist who opened Eve’s Hangout, a tea room in 1920s Greenwich Village that became one of the earliest proto–lesbian bars in the United States. Drawing on...
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Tea, Anarchy, and the First Dyke Bar: Eve’s Hangout 1925
In this episode of Our Dyke Histories, we follow the astonishing life of Eve Adams — the butch, Jewish, immigrant anarchist who opened Eve’s Hangout, a tea room in 1920s Greenwich Village that became one of the earliest proto–lesbian bars in the United States. Drawing on Jonathan Ned Katz’s...
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When Paris and Berlin Were Dyke Bars*, 1920s-1930s
What if Paris and Berlin were the first great dyke bars*? In Episode Two of Our Dyke Histories, Jack Gieseking, Lillian Faderman, and Cookie Woolner follow the trail of queer women, trans patrons, and gender rebels from Harlem across the U.S. as well into the theaters and hotel parties of Black...
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The LezQueer World before Bars, 1920s-1930s
Before the first lesbian bars, there were queer worlds built in rented rooms, smoky clubs, and parlor parties. In our premiere episode of Our Dyke Histories, host Jack Gieseking joins historians Lillian Faderman and Cookie Woolner trace the roots of lesbian and queer nightlife to the 1920s—a time...
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Teaser: Lez Dive into Our History
Come for the history; stay for the revolution, gossip, and desire that built it. 🤌 ** About Us Decade by decade, Our Dyke Histories dives deep into the living, breathing past and present of lesbian, queer, trans, & nonbinary communities. Each season traces how we made space for…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Come for the history; stay for the revolution, gossip, and desire that built it. 🤌
About Us :: Decade by decade, Our Dyke Histories dives deep into the living, breathing past and present of lesbian, queer, bisexual, trans, & nonbinary communities. Each season traces how we made space for ourselves—sometimes in bars, bookstores, and protests; sometimes in basements, alleyways, and prisons; & always against the odds.
Host :: Our Dyke Histories is hosted by historian, geographer, and environmental psychologist Dr. Jack Jen Gieseking, and produced in collaboration with Sinister Wisdom, the oldest lesbian multicultural literary and art journal.
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