Book Event: Love in the Lav with Averill Earls
September 4 at 8am PT/ 9am MT/ 11am ET/ 4pm BST
Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Averill Earls’ recent work Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972. Jarett Henderson will join Averill Earls in discussion.
Info and RSVP at https://www.nacbs.org/event-details/love-in-the-lav-with-averill-earls
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Averill Earls is a historian of sexuality and Ireland, and an award-winning baker. She’s co-founder and Executive Producer of Dig: A History Podcast, and an Associate Professor of History at St. Olaf College. Her writing has appeared on Notches Blog and Nursing Clio, as well as the Journal of the History of Sexuality and Historical Reflections. Her baking has appeared in the Minnesota State Fair, where she received a white ribbon for her Honey Gingersnap Cookies in 2024. She lives in Minnesota and spends summers in Vermont with her partner Dan and their dog, Curie.
Jarett Henderson is a historian at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he specializes in the histories of gender, sexuality, and settler colonialism in 19th-century Canada. Before trading snow boots for slides and toques for beanies, he taught at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. His research explores how Canadian colonial governance was shaped by and contributed to broader trans-imperial debates about sodomy, whiteness, masculinity, and political authority. His current book project, Unnatural Sex and Uncivil Subjects, examines how the re-criminalization of sex between men influenced the development of white settler self-government in the Canadian colonies. He is also co-editing, with T.J. Tallie and Kristen Thomas-McGill, the forthcoming volume Queering the Tensions of Empire.