Different from the Others: German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918-1940

Presenting for the first time a comparative and socio-cultural history of queer femininities in Germany and the Netherlands for an English-speaking audience, Different from the Others highlights this submerged history and engages queer authors and activists from the Netherlands to challenge and redress conceptualizations of queer femininity in the interwar period.

Cyd Sturgess is a queer literary and cultural historian, who works as a Leverhulme postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University. Lecturing on themes of gender and desire in the media, Cyd’s latest research project concerns issues of identity and precarity in community-based film festivals and the queering of documentary and archival practices.