rachel corbman
@rachelcorbman.bsky.social
assistant professor @ Arizona State University, studying histories of feminist, queer, trans, and disability activism, proud co-parent of four cats and a spaniel
Jed is making their way through the sex researcher Gershon Legman’s multi volume work on dirty jokes, periodically emerging from their reading to share facts, such as, “did you know that 34.5 used to be slang for cunnilingus because it is half of 69?”
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Jed is making their way through the sex researcher Gershon Legman’s multi volume work on dirty jokes, periodically emerging from their reading to share facts, such as, “did you know that 34.5 used to be slang for cunnilingus because it is half of 69?”
Artie keeps plaintively meowing at her reflection. I am worried that she thinks my phone background is a photo of her nemesis, mirror cat.
November 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Artie keeps plaintively meowing at her reflection. I am worried that she thinks my phone background is a photo of her nemesis, mirror cat.
Yay! @chrisevargas.bsky.social is coming to ASU
November 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Yay! @chrisevargas.bsky.social is coming to ASU
there are too many Rachels at this trans comedy fundraiser for Palestine in Brooklyn. Someone keeps calling for a “Rachel” to pick up their weed infused vegan food but there were two other Rachels before it was my food.
October 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
there are too many Rachels at this trans comedy fundraiser for Palestine in Brooklyn. Someone keeps calling for a “Rachel” to pick up their weed infused vegan food but there were two other Rachels before it was my food.
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TIP/ALLI sneak peek at Lesbian Lives NYC tomorrow!! We’ve got postcards for those curious about the film/pining for their very own @rachelcorbman.bsky.social pinup, so if that’s you come on by!! 👯♀️📽️🌈🚀
October 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
TIP/ALLI sneak peek at Lesbian Lives NYC tomorrow!! We’ve got postcards for those curious about the film/pining for their very own @rachelcorbman.bsky.social pinup, so if that’s you come on by!! 👯♀️📽️🌈🚀
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Signs is seeking submissions for a new special issue: "Crisis," edited by Jih-Fei Cheng, Cati Connell, and Gowri Vijayakumar. For the full CFP go to signsjournal.org/for-authors/...
October 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Signs is seeking submissions for a new special issue: "Crisis," edited by Jih-Fei Cheng, Cati Connell, and Gowri Vijayakumar. For the full CFP go to signsjournal.org/for-authors/...
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Rejected everywhere, staged as a hoax, and finally published in a lesbian sex mag — Sarah Schulman’s “A Short Story About a Penis” has quite a history. Rachel Corbman uncovers its fascinating legacy in Signs’ new issue: check it out here! (sub. req’d):
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 1
This introduction to “Lesbian Studies, Now” reflects on the affective, intellectual, and political stakes of invoking “lesbian” as a generative scholarly category in the present as well as the three…
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October 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Rejected everywhere, staged as a hoax, and finally published in a lesbian sex mag — Sarah Schulman’s “A Short Story About a Penis” has quite a history. Rachel Corbman uncovers its fascinating legacy in Signs’ new issue: check it out here! (sub. req’d):
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🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
The lesbian studies issue of @signsjournal.org is on the internet! It includes my article about Sarah Schulman’s slideshow about a fake lesbian writer & her real short story about a lesbian who wakes up with a penis.
October 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The lesbian studies issue of @signsjournal.org is on the internet! It includes my article about Sarah Schulman’s slideshow about a fake lesbian writer & her real short story about a lesbian who wakes up with a penis.
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Queer archives not only contain our past but help unlock community. @ainopihlak.bsky.social gathers terrific insights from @arquives.ca, @rachelcorbman.bsky.social, @invisiblehistories.bsky.social, @ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social, and @leatherarchives.bsky.social.
Among the archives, you can find love, community and history | Xtra Magazine
Queer and trans archives preserve our past—they also offer community space that is essential to our future
xtramagazine.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Queer archives not only contain our past but help unlock community. @ainopihlak.bsky.social gathers terrific insights from @arquives.ca, @rachelcorbman.bsky.social, @invisiblehistories.bsky.social, @ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social, and @leatherarchives.bsky.social.
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My article, “The Comedy of Chris E. Vargas: Trans Play at the Tipping Point,” is out now with CAMERA OBSCURA! 👯♂️🦜🦄📚 Shoot me a message if you’re having trouble accessing ;)
The Comedy of Chris E. Vargas: Trans Play at the Tipping Point
Abstract. This essay contends that trans comedy offers an important praxis for this post‐tipping‐point moment. Today many are wary of comedy, long familiar with the common punchline, “It's a transsexu...
read.dukeupress.edu
September 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
My article, “The Comedy of Chris E. Vargas: Trans Play at the Tipping Point,” is out now with CAMERA OBSCURA! 👯♂️🦜🦄📚 Shoot me a message if you’re having trouble accessing ;)
We have assembled to root on the Valks in their first playoff game 💜🪽🏀⚔️🐣
September 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We have assembled to root on the Valks in their first playoff game 💜🪽🏀⚔️🐣
review of everyone watches dyke sports!
Lesbians Are an Essential Part of Basketball History
A new exhibit called Everyone Watches Dyke Sports: Queer Histories of New York Liberty Basketball is on view at The Center in NYC.
www.autostraddle.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
review of everyone watches dyke sports!
Frances Simpson (1857-1926) wrote a column called Practical Pussyology, which is what WGSS should really be called
September 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Frances Simpson (1857-1926) wrote a column called Practical Pussyology, which is what WGSS should really be called
Keeping it meta: my article about a 1979 special issue of Frontiers was just published in Frontiers’ special issue for the 50th anniversary of Frontiers
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
Project MUSE - Blame it On the Edit: Frontiers's Special Issue on Lesbian History
muse.jhu.edu
September 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Keeping it meta: my article about a 1979 special issue of Frontiers was just published in Frontiers’ special issue for the 50th anniversary of Frontiers
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
I’m actually really big in Germany
September 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I’m actually really big in Germany
research assistant
September 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
research assistant
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"There should be a midnight showing of United in Anger every week like Rocky Horror where we say all the words that people say in their oral history interviews." -- @rachelcorbman.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"There should be a midnight showing of United in Anger every week like Rocky Horror where we say all the words that people say in their oral history interviews." -- @rachelcorbman.bsky.social
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Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call: www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other
August 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call: www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other
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Oh no!! Just posted the call for submissions for ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, and the link got corrupted on my post!! Had to delete, even though so many people reposted, but I will repost in a moment, hopefully people will repost again 💕
August 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Oh no!! Just posted the call for submissions for ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, and the link got corrupted on my post!! Had to delete, even though so many people reposted, but I will repost in a moment, hopefully people will repost again 💕
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I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.
“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.
(real, one-shot :p )
August 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.
apologies if my lesbian feminist disability book ends up being a micro history of a lesbian wheelchair basketball team in the Bay Area and the one time the sisters of perpetual indulgence functioned as their cheerleaders
August 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
apologies if my lesbian feminist disability book ends up being a micro history of a lesbian wheelchair basketball team in the Bay Area and the one time the sisters of perpetual indulgence functioned as their cheerleaders
After its own night at Barclays, everyone watches dyke sports is up at the LGBT Community Center National History Archive 🗽
Come see it in August or September!
Come see it in August or September!
July 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
After its own night at Barclays, everyone watches dyke sports is up at the LGBT Community Center National History Archive 🗽
Come see it in August or September!
Come see it in August or September!
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Lesbians for Liberty flyer for kiss-in in 2002: “We’ve tried to play nice…We’ve e-mailed, called, talked to the press, leafleted, & held up signs. Now it’s time for a little old-fashioned lesbian direct action!” Can’t wait to see the Lesbian Herstory Archive exhibit at the Liberty game this Fri!
A history of the Lesbians for Liberty’s 2002 kiss-in protest, my lesbian youth, and the Lesbian Herstory Archives’ upcoming exhibit at Barclays
www.them.us/story/lesbia...
www.them.us/story/lesbia...
Lesbians for Liberty: Looking Back at the WNBA Kiss-In Protest of 2002
Today, the league largely embraces its LGBTQ+ fandom. But that acceptance was hard-won.
www.them.us
July 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Lesbians for Liberty flyer for kiss-in in 2002: “We’ve tried to play nice…We’ve e-mailed, called, talked to the press, leafleted, & held up signs. Now it’s time for a little old-fashioned lesbian direct action!” Can’t wait to see the Lesbian Herstory Archive exhibit at the Liberty game this Fri!