Resources - Social Issues

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LGBT Issues

• Gay History & Literature: Essays by Rictor Norton
• Homosexuality in ancient Rome
• "The Surprising History of Homosexuality and Homophobia" by Scott Bidstrup
• Sodomy and Homosexuality in Medieval Europe
• Medieval same-sex unions (FFA thread) 
• The Experience of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
• Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence
• Punishment for sodomy, 17th-century France
• Homosexuality in 18th-Century England
• "Cloistered Closets: Enlightenment Pornography, The Confessional State, Homosexual Persecution and The Monk," by Clara Tuite, published in Érudit No. 8, Nov. 1997
• Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook by Chris White
• Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London by Seth Koven (also includes het info)
• London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 by by Matt Cook
• Nameless Offenses by H.G. Cocks
• Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus
• Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World by George Chauncey
• Early 20th-c. intersection of queer spaces and black spaces (FFA thread)
• Coded language and condoms, m/m, late 1920s and 1930s (FFA thread)
• Chapter 1 of The Gay Metropolis by Charles Kaiser: gay life in New York in the 1940s
• Queer London: perils and pleasures in the sexual metropolis, 1918-1957 by Matt Houlbrook
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project (LHMP)  
• Non-binary pronouns (FFA thread)
• Homophobia in Italy (FFA thread) 

 

Sexism/Misogyny 

• Writing Women Characters Into Epic Fantasy Without Quotas

 

Race and Writing Other Cultures

• How Do I Write a PoC Character When I'm Not a PoC?
• Appropriate Cultural Appropriation
• Race and Culture in Hannibal's Army 
• Black Victoriana and Image of the Black — both touted on FFA as excellent alternatives to MPOC
• 19th-c. women of color in Louisiana were forced to cover their hair in public
• How to write about Erik Lensherr being Jewish
• Racial relations in 1950s-60s UK (FFA thread) 
• An FFA discussion of drawing on ancient civilizations for original fic worldbuilding prompts a couple of comments with good suggestions for non-European ones to check out.
• Immigration: World maps denoting birthplace by country
• World Cultures

 

Classism

• A Quick and Dirty Guide to the British Education System: Part I and Part II
• Social class in Asia (FFA thread)

 

Writing Disabled Characters

• Historical disability (FFA thread)
• Information for writers of disabled characters
• People willing to be contacts re characters with various disabilities
• Writing about people with amputated limbs (FFA thread)
• A user's guide to PTSD
• Signs of PTSD in children (FFA thread)
• Anxiety attacks (FFA thread) 
• Dyslexic!nonny talks about living with the disorder
• 19th-c. blind character, upper-class (FFA thread)
• Blind character having sex (FFA thread)