Cookie Woolner
@CookieWoolner
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Historian, professor, and author of The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall (UNC Press, 2023). she/her
Memphis, TN
Joined April 2013
Looking forward to talking about the queer blues women in a speakeasy setting, with live performances of their songs! It’s free on Thursday at 7pm at Culture Lab in Queens! 🌈@LGBTQ_Museum @UNC_Press
Culture Lab and @LGBTQ_Museum team up to present “Reverb: The Famous Lady Lovers,” an exploration of queer Black singers and the Blues on June 19 at 7pm. https://t.co/sV3qC5XP50
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@abwhtruth Honorable Mention 2024 Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize @CookieWoolner The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall (@UNC_Press)
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Memphis! Come out tomorrow and hear one of the best in the business do her thing! @CountessCanuck has written a powerful book, and her musings on slavery are illuminating. Come out if you can!
Memphis Fam: I'm headed your way this week! Please share this with your communities across institutions and organizations. I'd love to see y'all. #juliachinn #BlackHistory #BlackWomen @CharlesWMcKinn2 @aejohnsonphd @Pastor_Earle @GeeJoyner @BEVERLYBOND
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This Tuesday (11/12) at 6 pm CST: Please join @novelmemphis in welcoming @EvaBPayne, in conversation with @CookieWoolner, to celebrate the release of her new book Empire of Purity. For more details, visit: https://t.co/jpaqMx394e
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New review by a scholar I’ve been anxious to read thoughts from. It’s a real privilege to have your work engaged with and appreciated!! https://t.co/iYWBSS5UeQ mccoy-on-katherine-rye-jewells-live-from-the-underground-a-history-of-college-radio/
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Except for those who listened to college radio or worked as DJs as students, many who attend college might never listen to the local station, especially now that we live in the era of streaming music...
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ICYMI: for the blog, Katie Uva @K80Uva recently interviewed Cookie Woolner @CookieWoolner about her recent work, The Famous Lady Lovers. Read more about Woolner's work on the lives and communities of queer Black women in the 1920s and 1930s here:
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Cookie Woolner: The Famous Lady Lovers Interviewed by Katie Uva By 1929, Black lady lovers were becoming so visible in Harlem that the powerful and popular pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church,...
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The Department of History at The University of Memphis, seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Public History beginning in August 2025. https://t.co/S5cyA7EIrA
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University of Memphis
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Did you finish a dissertation on US LGBT history between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024? Submit your dissertation for consideration of the John @The_OAH D’Emilio LGBTQ History Dissertation Award. Due October 1, 2024. SHARE WIDELY! More info here: https://t.co/VGBkeJyo0T.
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Thank you for assigning my book @KeishaBlain! Honored to be in this fabulous stack.
🙏🏽👇🏽 @CookieWoolner THE FAMOUS LADY LOVERS @CountessCanuck THE VICE PRESIDENT’S BLACK WIFE
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📚Final selections for my grad course on African American women’s #history. Read with us! ♥️
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It's been a long journey but thrilled to see my new book in print. Many thanks to the team at @lsupress for the fine work to craft a beautiful book.
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🎉 Very excited that my book, “The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice,” has been listed on the @DukePress website!
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The LGBTQ Committee of @The_OAH is accepting submissions for the John D'Emilio Dissertation Award. Anyone who completed a dissertation between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024 is eligible. The deadline is October 1. Please circulate widely. More info here:
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Apply now for a 2025 ACLS Fellowship, supporting scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences! Awards of $30-60k + additional funding for independent scholars, adjunct faculty & faculty in teaching-intensive roles. Deadline Sept. 25, 9PM EDT https://t.co/hb9NzzZhpJ
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apropos of nothing, a gorgeous collection people should check out before making blanket statements about people from Appalachia. proud to say my student @MaxwellCloe is a contributor.
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Today is the official publication day for my new book, I Know You Are, but What Am I? On Pee-wee Herman from @UMinnPress. You can pick up a copy here or read the ebook for free: https://t.co/DRduMZzgt0. Get 40% with code MN91270
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Cookie Woolner, a punk rock drummer turned scholar, has a groundbreaking new book, The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall, highlighting how queer people constructed their own safe havens and communities https://t.co/AgN5MCEtsi
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From the queer archives: Meet the queer scholar who unearthed a forgotten chapter of queer history
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I was interviewed about my work for @reckonnews, a great way to end Pride month! 🏳️🌈🧱📚 https://t.co/Kmx1u5pq2P
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From the queer archives: Meet the queer scholar who unearthed a forgotten chapter of queer history
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