Writing for the Public

Here are some of my clips:

Imagining Trans Futures‘, History Workshop Online, 23 September 2025

What Have Historians Been Arguing About… Modern British LGBTQ+ History‘, Teaching History, 13 December 2024

Symonds’s Facts, Our Future‘, Public Books, 5 July 2023

In Plain Sight‘ [review of Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality], History Today, April 2021

Can We Talk About Sex? Please? A review of Jennifer Hirsch’s and Shamus Khan’s ‘Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus’‘, Public Seminar, 10 September 2020

What’s Missing in Naomi Wolf’s ‘Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love’‘, Public Seminar, 25 June 2019 (mentioned in the New York Times on 9 July 2019)

‘Never in the Presence of Any Woman’: Male Homoeroticism and Elite Education‘, History Workshop Online, 21 January 2019

The 1970s Gay Sex Scandal That Enthralled Britons Is Back‘ [on the Jeremy Thorpe scandal and A Very English Scandal (BBC)], Public Seminar, 26 June 2018

Dare to Speak its Name: Pederasty in the Classical Tropes of ‘Call Me By Your Name’‘, Eidolon, February 2018

I am also active on Bluesky, where you can follow me @echomikeromeo.