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Our Dyke Histories

Our Dyke Histories

Jack Gieseking with Sinister Wisdom
Uitgebracht: 2026-02-09
Ā© CC-BY-NC-ND Jack Gieseking & Sinister Wisdom 2025
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Luister in Apple Podcasts
Uitgebracht: 2026-02-09
Ā© CC-BY-NC-ND Jack Gieseking & Sinister Wisdom 2025
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Sex Work, Bars, and Picnics before Stonewall, 1930s-1970s Detroit with Roey Thorpe

Sex Work, Bars, and Picnics before Stonewall, 1930s-1970s Detroit with Roey Thorpe

In this season one finale, Jack talks with historian Roey Thorpe about lesbian and queer life in Detroit from the 1930s through the early 1970s, before and beyond Stonewall. Centering working-class bars, sex work economies, and informal gathering spaces
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In this season one finale, Jack talks with historian Roey Thorpe about lesbian and queer life in Detroit from the 1930s through the early 1970s, before and beyond Stonewall. Centering working-class bars, sex work economies, and informal gathering spaces like softball and picnics, the episode traces how Black and white queer womenā€”especially those who were poor, working-class, and gender nonconformingā€”built lives under conditions of criminalization, surveillance, and police violence.
Thorpe highlights the central role of sex work as labor, survival, and community infrastructure, and shows how bars functioned not only as sites of leisure but as workplaces, political hubs, and mutual aid networks. The conversation foregrounds Detroit as a major site of lesbian and queer history, shaped by industrial labor, racial segregation, and the Great Migration. Together, Jack and Thorpe show that resistance, world-building, and dyke life were already flourishing for decades.
The season closes with a powerful reminder: dyke history has always been rooted in labor, risk, pleasure, and the ongoing creation of livable worlds.
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Newsletter to your inbox: Jack's Queer Geographies newsletter with detailed takes on each episode, & more about lezbiqueertrans spaces across timeInstagram for more dyke visuals and stories @ourdykehistoriesRead and follow our co-producer and collaborator, Sinister WisdomEmail us questions and comments at ourdykehistories@gmail.com**
Credits
Producer, Editor, Host, & Creative Director: Jack Gieseking
Co-Producer: Julie Enszer & Sinister Wisdom
Co-Producer & Co-Editor: Cade Waldo
Co-Editor: Becca Moses
Assistant Editor: Mel Whitesell
Social Media: Audrey Wilkinson
Interns: Michaela Hayes and Sophie McClain
Consulting Producer: Rachel Fagen
Music: Our theme song: "Like Honey" by Kit Orion https://www.kitorion.com/
CC-BY-NC-ND 2025. Write to us at ourdykehistories@gmail.com for permission to use any of our content.
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Releasedatum: 9-2-2026 16:51:58

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Come for the history; stay for the revolution, gossip, and desire that built it. šŸ¤Œ
About Us :: Decade by decade, Our Dyke Histories dives deep into the living, breathing past and present of lesbian, queer, bisexual, trans, & nonbinary communities. Each season traces how we made space for ourselvesā€”sometimes in bars, bookstores, and protests; sometimes in basements, alleyways, and prisons; & always against the odds.
Host :: Our Dyke Histories is hosted by historian, geographer, and environmental psychologist Dr. Jack Jen Gieseking, and produced in collaboration with Sinister Wisdom, the oldest lesbian multicultural literary and art journal.
Season One :: Our first season traces the history of dyke bars* - yes, with an asterisk - including lesbian bars, queer parties, & trans hangouts. Before Pride marches and hashtags, there were bars, parties, and whispered invitations that built whole worlds. Our Dyke Histories uncovers the stories of the women, trans, and nonbinary people who turned repression into resistance and nightlife into liberation.
Join Our Community :: Want to be part of our community? We'd love to have you. šŸ˜ Come comment, connect, and get your gayme on!
Newsletter to your inbox: Jack's Queer Geographies newsletter with detailed takes on each episode, & more about lezbiqueertrans spaces across timeInstagram for more dyke visuals and stories @ourdykehistoriesRead and follow our co-producer and collaborator, Sinister WisdomEmail us at ourdykehistories@gmail.comDonate 3 :: Subscribe and/or donate to the fabulous, in-print Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal founded in 1976. Sinister Wisdom recognizes the power of language and art to create radical, empowering, resilient, and joyous sanctuaries that build and sustain vibrant lesbian futures.
What Does Our Tarot Reading Say about What's Next? :: In future seasons, we will move decade by decade through other defining places, objects, and ideas in lesbian, bi, queer, and trans historyā€”mapping the worlds weā€™ve made and the futures weā€™re still imagining.
Funny and fierce, sexy and smart, and full of dyke spirit, this podcast isnā€™t nostalgiaā€”itā€™s a survival guide disguised as a love letter.

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