Presentations of kvir_izdat
Queer Digital Humanities for Precarious Times: The Project kvir_izdat
Lecture to Slavic Digital Humanities group, Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages at Stanford University. May 15, 2024
KVIR_IZDAT: Queer Journal Archives, Digital Humanities, and Ethics
Paper at conference Light On! Unearthing Queer Pasts in Socialist Archives, University of Regensburg. July 7, 2023.
Queer Periodicals in Post-Soviet Russia: From Leningrad Underground to Transnational Publishing
Sawchen Lecture at University of British Columbia, online/recorded. March 26, 2021.
Digital Resources
Russian LGBTQ+ Press
Overview of the Russian queer press in the 1990s on the University of North Carolina’s Library website, including listings of library holdings in the US.
Russian Gay Culture
Introduction to Russian gay literature by Kevin Moss (Middlebury College).
Digital Archives of Journals
Mitin Zhurnal
Archive of Queer Magazines on the Russian Internet Portal of Gay Literature
Selected Scholarly Works
Baer, Brian. Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Cassiday, Julie A. Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023.
Essig, Laurie. Queer in Russia: A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
Healey, Dan. Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi. London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Kondakov, Aleksandr. Na pereput’e: metodologiia, teoriia i praktika LGBT i kvir-issledovanii. Sankt-Peterburg: Tsentr nezavisimykh sotsiologicheskikh issoledovanii, 2014.
Kondakov, Alexander. “Rethinking the Sexual Citizenship from Queer and Post-Soviet Perspectives: Queer Urban Spaces and the Right to the Socialist City.” Sexualities 22, no. 3 (2019): 401–17.
Kondakov, Alexander Sasha, and Evgeny Shtorn. “Sex, Alcohol, and Soul: Violent Reactions to Coming Out after the ‘Gay Propaganda’ Law in Russia.” The Russian Review 80, no. 1 (2021): 37–55.
Miazhevich, Galina, ed. Queering Russian Media and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2022.
Moss, Kevin. “Russia’s Queer Science, or How Anti-LGBT Scholarship Is Made.” The Russian Review 80, no. 1 (2021): 17–36.
Novitskaya, Alexandra. “Sexual Citizens in Exile: State-Sponsored Homophobia and Post-Soviet LGBTQI+ Migration.” The Russian Review 80, no. 1 (2021): 56–76.
Sleptcov, Nikita. “Political Homophobia as a State Strategy in Russia.” Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective 12, no. 1 (2018).
Suchland, Jennifer. “The LGBT Specter in Russia: Refusing Queerness, Claiming ‘Whiteness.’” Gender, Place & Culture 25, no. 7 (2018): 1073–88.
Szulc, Lukasz. Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland. Cross-Border Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Utkin, Roman. “Queer Vulnerability and Russian Poetry after the ‘Gay Propaganda’ Law.” The Russian Review 80, no. 1 (2021): 77–99.