Journal of Lesbian Studies; Róisín Ryan-Flood (Univ. of Essex) and Ella Ben Hagai (California State Univ. Fullerton) (Web)
Proposals by: 15.02.2026
‚How do lesbians have sex?‘ is a question frequently posed with a lesbophobic undertone. However, for those engaged in lesbian sex it can also open up a discussion. Lesbians have sex in many different ways, not prescribed or subsumed by patriarchal representations: they play, create, and innovate in their pleasures. The Journal of Lesbian Studies in collaboration with the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship at the Univ. of Essex, invites submissions for a special issue dedicated to the diversity, complexity, and richness of lesbian sexual practices. We seek contributions that are both empirically informed and theoretically sophisticated, offering nuanced analyses of the embodied, relational, cultural, and political dimensions of lesbian erotic life. We welcome qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, historical, literary and interdisciplinary work. Submissions exploring intersectional perspectives are particularly welcome, especially those that foreground how sexuality is shaped by race, class, gender expression, disability, age, migration, and cultural context.
We invite submissions that engage theoretically, empirically, and/or historically, with lesbian sexual practices, erotic roles, and intimate worlds. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
– Stone and stone-butch / stone-femme practices, histories, and embodiments
– Stud identities and stud/femme dynamics.
– Cross-cultural articulations of erotic roles and sexual scripts
– Lesbian sex in different cultural settings, including how language, meaning, and cultural difference shape sexual practices
– Dynamics of giving, receiving, refusal, and erotic agency
– Lesbian BDSM practices, including D/s configurations and power exchange
– Technologies, sex toys, prosthetics, and embodied erotic techniques
– Consent, risk, safety, and the ethics of touch
– Pleasure, affect, fantasy, desire, and intimacy Continue reading

VII. Internationaler Kongress für Pietismusforschung: Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Pietismusforschung der Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg und Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle/Saale
Session at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists 
24. „Tea Hour“ der Sammlung Frauennachlässe am Institut für Geschichte der Univ. Wien
Haus der Geschichte Österreichs (hdgö) 