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rachel corbman @rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The lesbian studies issue of @signsjournal.org is on the internet! It includes my article about Sarah Schulman’s slideshow about a fake lesbian writer & her real short story about a lesbian who wakes up with a penis.

In March 1983, Sarah Schulman finished a draft of a short story about a lesbian who wakes up one day with a penis, descriptively titled “A Short Story About a Penis.” Though now a well-known writer, Schulman enjoyed limited success placing her fiction as a young writer in the early 1980s. In the middle of the feminist sex wars, “A Short Story About a Penis” racked up rejections from every significant lesbian literary magazine before finally appearing in On Our Backs, a newly launched lesbian sex magazine, in March 1986. While still struggling to place her story, Schulman created a performance piece to vent her frustration with the lesbian publishing scene. In her performance, Schulman read “A Short Story About a Penis,” which, she claimed, was the recently discovered work of a long-forgotten lesbian writer from the 1930s. In this article, I reconstruct the history of “A Short Story About a Penis” based on conversations with Schulman and the archival footprint of the performance in her personal papers. In offering an intellectual history of Schulman’s thinking on gender, sexuality, lesbian identity, and history, this article places Schulman within a genealogy of what came to be known as queer and trans, without obscuring the fraught history of lesbian in the 1980s.

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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 06/10/2025

Rejected everywhere, staged as a hoax, and finally published in a lesbian sex mag — Sarah Schulman’s “A Short Story About a Penis” has quite a history. Rachel Corbman uncovers its fascinating legacy in Signs’ new issue: check it out here! (sub. req’d):

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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 1

This introduction to “Lesbian Studies, Now” reflects on the affective, intellectual, and political stakes of invoking “lesbian” as a generative scholarly category in the present as well as the three…

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Aleksandra Julia Malinowska @ajmalinowska.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

PUB ALERT I have published a book review with @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social in which I praise @katherineturk.bsky.social's The Women of NOW as an important contribution to recent discussions on feminist historiography and the popular memory of the second wave. 🔗: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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On Katherine Turk’s The Women of NOW, feminist historiography and the popular memory of the second wave

Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Narodowe Centrum Nauki @ncn.gov.pl · 16/03/2026

Ogłaszamy konkursy OPUS 31 na projekty badawcze dla naukowczyń i naukowców na wszystkich etapach kariery i PRELUDIUM 25 dla osób bez stopnia doktora. W obu konkursach sfinansujemy projekty o łącznej wartości 600 mln zł. Na wnioski czekamy do połowy czerwca. ncn.gov.pl/aktualnosci/...

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Gender/Sexuality Research Group @genderpl.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

@ajmalinowska.bsky.social, our doctoral student member, has recently published with @feministreview.bsky.social. Check out her article "Valerie Solanas’ utopian world-building: Feminist poetics of anger and political violence in SCUM Manifesto (1967)": journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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rachel corbman @rachelcorbman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

she’s out!

Sceeencap of the title and abstract of my article “dykes, witches, and cults: women’s studies in mass culture”

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Karolina Krasuska @karolinakrasuska.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

It’s official as of today! This October we are starting Gender and Sexuality MA at the University of Warsaw! The first MA like that in Polish in Poland! Spread the word! And let’s cooperate!

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Gender/Sexuality Research Group @genderpl.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Our PhD student member @ajmalinowska.bsky.social is currently at @arizonastateuni.bsky.social conducting a 5-month research fellowship funded by the National Agency for Academic Exchange. She is working on her PhD project with prof. Breanne Fahs, a top researcher of feminist manifestos 📚

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Karolina Krasuska @karolinakrasuska.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

And the first review is out! Spoiler alert: it uses a lot of positive modifiers of Latin origin🤩

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Gender/Sexuality Research Group @genderpl.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Our research group members appeared on another panel at the #mla25! "Affect and 21st Century Feminist Manifestos" was organized by @ajmalinowska.bsky.social and presided by @karolinakrasuska.bsky.social 💥 Aleksandra also gave a paper on "The Socialist legacy of the Combahee River Collective" 📝

Aleksandra Julia Malinowska presenting on "The Socialist Legacy of the Combahee River Collective: Rereading Feminist Classics through their Descendants"

Aleksandra Julia Malinowska and Karolina Krasuska in front of the conference room where their panel took place

Panelists during the Q&A, from left to right: Karolina Krasuska, Carsten Junker, Aleksandra Julia Malinowska, Laura Handl

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Aleksandra Julia Malinowska @ajmalinowska.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Please feel warmly invited to my two panels at #MLA25 🎤 First I will present my PhD project at the Next-Generation Research Graduate Student Showcase and then I will give a paper on #Feminismforthe99percent at a panel I am co-organizing on "Affect and Twenty-First-Century Feminist Manifestos" 📝

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Aleksandra Julia Malinowska @ajmalinowska.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Long library day today - need to finish my presentations for #MLA2025 🎧

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Gender/Sexuality Research Group @genderpl.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

On Dec 17th our Student Chapter held its 1st academic event this year! It was a manifesto-writing workshop entitled "We Want Change NOW! On the Feminist Manifesto in Theory and Practice." Our doctoral student @ajmalinowska.bsky.social gave a short introduction to the history of feminist manifestos 💥

Aleksandra Julia Malinowska giving a short introductory presentation at the start of the workshop. She is sitting in a chair and reading from her notes for the meeting. In the background there is the pink promotional poster for the event.

Pink promotional poster for the event. It looks like a page torn from a notebook and includes decorative orange doodles. Logos included: Gender/Sexuality Research Group and its Student Chapter, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw.

Aleksandra Julia Malinowska discussing a quote presented on the slide, there are students sitting around the workshop table.

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Aleksandra Julia Malinowska @ajmalinowska.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Used to be @AMal_Scholar on X. I am a 2nd year PhD candidate at the University of Warsaw, Doctoral School of Humanities. I work on women's movement manifestos' rhetorical strategies and affective poetics 📣 I am also one of the coordinators of the @genderpl.bsky.social Student Chapter ✏️

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Aleksandra Julia Malinowska @ajmalinowska.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Finally reading @jennifercnash.bsky.social's "Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality" today - I highly recommend it! Nash's work has been foundational to my understanding of intersectionality. www.dukeupress.edu/black-femini...

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Black Feminism Reimagined

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