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Our Dyke Histories

Our Dyke Histories

著者： Jack Gieseking with Sinister Wisdom
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概要

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.

Season One :: Our first season traces the history of dyke bars* - yes, with an asterisk - including lesbian bars, queer parties, & trans hangouts. Before Pride marches and hashtags, there were bars, parties, and whispered invitations that built whole worlds. Our Dyke Histories uncovers the stories of the women, trans, and nonbinary people who turned repression into resistance and nightlife into liberation.

Join Our Community :: Want to be part of our community? We'd love to have you. 😏 Come comment, connect, and get your gayme on!

  • Newsletter to your inbox: Jack's Queer Geographies newsletter with detailed takes on each episode, & more about lezbiqueertrans spaces across time
  • Instagram for more dyke visuals and stories @ourdykehistories
  • Read and follow our co-producer and collaborator, Sinister Wisdom
  • Email us at ourdykehistories@gmail.com

Donate <3 :: Subscribe and/or donate to the fabulous, in-print Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal founded in 1976. Sinister Wisdom recognizes the power of language and art to create radical, empowering, resilient, and joyous sanctuaries that build and sustain vibrant lesbian futures.

What Does Our Tarot Reading Say about What's Next? :: In future seasons, we will move decade by decade through other defining places, objects, and ideas in lesbian, bi, queer, and trans history—mapping the worlds we’ve made and the futures we’re still imagining.

Funny and fierce, sexy and smart, and full of dyke spirit, this podcast isn’t nostalgia—it’s a survival guide disguised as a love letter.

CC-BY-NC-ND Jack Gieseking & Sinister Wisdom 2025 世界 社会科学
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  • Sex Work, Bars, and Picnics before Stonewall, 1930s-1970s Detroit with Roey Thorpe

    Sex Work, Bars, and Picnics before Stonewall, 1930s-1970s Detroit with Roey Thorpe
    2026/02/09

    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 traces how Black and white queer women—especially those who were poor, working-class, and gender nonconforming—built lives under conditions of criminalization, surveillance, and police violence.

    Thorpe highlights the central role of sex work as labor, survival, and community infrastructure, and shows how bars functioned not only as sites of leisure but as workplaces, political hubs, and mutual aid networks. The conversation foregrounds Detroit as a major site of lesbian and queer history, shaped by industrial labor, racial segregation, and the Great Migration. Together, Jack and Thorpe show that resistance, world-building, and dyke life were already flourishing for decades.

    The season closes with a powerful reminder: dyke history has always been rooted in labor, risk, pleasure, and the ongoing creation of livable worlds.

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    Join Our Community

    Want to be part of our community? We'd love to have you. 😏 Come comment, connect, and get your gayme on!

    • Newsletter to your inbox: Jack's Queer Geographies newsletter with detailed takes on each episode, & more about lezbiqueertrans spaces across time
    • Instagram for more dyke visuals and stories @ourdykehistories
    • Read and follow our co-producer and collaborator, Sinister Wisdom
    • Email us questions and comments at ourdykehistories@gmail.com

    **

    Credits

    Producer, Editor, Host, & Creative Director: Jack Gieseking

    Co-Producer: Julie Enszer & Sinister Wisdom

    Co-Producer & Co-Editor: Cade Waldo

    Co-Editor: Becca Moses

    Assistant Editor: Mel Whitesell

    Social Media: Audrey Wilkinson

    Interns: Michaela Hayes and Sophie McClain

    Consulting Producer: Rachel Fagen

    Music: Our theme song: "Like Honey" by Kit Orion https://www.kitorion.com/

    CC-BY-NC-ND 2025. Write to us at ourdykehistories@gmail.com for permission to use any of our content.
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    31 分
  • A House Where Queers Go, 1930s-1970s Detroit with Roey Thorpe

    A House Where Queers Go, 1930s-1970s Detroit with Roey Thorpe
    2026/02/02

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    Join Our Community

    Want to be part of our community? We'd love to have you. 😏 Come comment, connect, and get your gayme on!

    • Newsletter to your inbox: Jack's Queer Geographies newsletter with detailed takes on each episode, & more about lezbiqueertrans spaces across time
    • Instagram for more dyke visuals and stories @ourdykehistories
    • Read and follow our co-producer and collaborator, Sinister Wisdom
    • Email us questions and comments at ourdykehistories@gmail.com

    **

    Credits

    Producer, Editor, Host, & Creative Director: Jack Gieseking

    Co-Producer: Julie Enszer & Sinister Wisdom

    Co-Producer & Co-Editor: Cade Waldo

    Assistant Editor: Mel Whitesell

    Social Media: Audrey Wilkinson

    Interns: Michaela Hayes and Sophie McClain

    Consulting Producer: Rachel Fagen

    Music: Our theme song: "Like Honey" by Kit Orion https://www.kitorion.com/

    CC-BY-NC-ND 2025. Write to us at ourdykehistories@gmail.com for permission to use any of our content.
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    49 分
  • Finding the Movement: Queer Space, Dance, and Survival, 1970s Detroit, Chicago, & Minneapolis with Finn Enke

    Finding the Movement: Queer Space, Dance, and Survival, 1970s Detroit, Chicago, & Minneapolis with Finn Enke
    2026/01/26

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    Join Our Community

    Want to be part of our community? We'd love to have you. 😏 Come comment, connect, and get your gayme on!

    • Newsletter to your inbox: Jack's Queer Geographies newsletter with detailed takes on each episode, & more about lezbiqueertrans spaces across time
    • Instagram for more dyke visuals and stories @ourdykehistories
    • Read and follow our co-producer and collaborator, Sinister Wisdom
    • Email us questions and comments at ourdykehistories@gmail.com

    **

    Credits

    Producer, Editor, Host, & Creative Director: Jack Gieseking

    Co-Producer: Julie Enszer & Sinister Wisdom

    Co-Producer & Co-Editor: Cade Waldo

    Assistant Editor: Mel Whitesell

    Social Media: Audrey Wilkinson

    Interns: Michaela Hayes and Sophie McClain

    Consulting Producer: Rachel Fagen

    Music: Our theme song: "Like Honey" by Kit Orion https://www.kitorion.com/

    CC-BY-NC-ND 2025. Write to us at ourdykehistories@gmail.com for permission to use any of our content.
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    38 分
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