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Resources - Social Issues
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
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)
