Zavier Nunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 4246862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zavier Nunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zavier |
| FAMILY NAME | Nunn |
| SIGNATURE | NUNN Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2150-4761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
After Weimar; Beyond Hirschfeld? Nostalgia, Hagiography and What Comes Next
The Weimar Republic looms large in the histories of queer liberation and sexual reform movements, both in Europe and transnationally. The promise of increased openness and plurality that shaped public discourse on a variety of issues in Germany’s first democracy was especially pronounced in the realms of sexual politics and gender identities. Within this progressive environment, the Institute for Sexual Science, established in Berlin in 1919, bec…
Against anticipation, or, camp reading as reparative to the trans feminine past
Whether trans people – especially trans women – were persecuted by the Nazi regime remains a contested yet under‐researched topic. But the wider political backdrop (including the culture wars and Holocaust memorialisation practices) steers this historical question with a monolithic value: victimisation. This hyper‐focus on victimisation is underpinned by a ‘paranoia’ that pre‐empts tragic historical narratives. Trans histories that do not neatly …
Trans Liminality and the Nazi State
Weimar Berlin is considered a past haven of queer possibility, but for trans people its permissiveness had clear limits. A close reading of the life of trans woman Gerd R. undermines a simple idealization of Weimar Berlin and addresses continuities and breaks between the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. How the Nazi state policed trans people is yet to be acknowledged by historians. Thus far, trans people have been subsumed into histories of que…
Against anticipation, or, camp reading as reparative to the trans feminine past
Whether trans people – especially trans women – were persecuted by the Nazi regime remains a contested yet under‐researched topic. But the wider political backdrop (including the culture wars and Holocaust memorialisation practices) steers this historical question with a monolithic value: victimisation. This hyper‐focus on victimisation is underpinned by a ‘paranoia’ that pre‐empts tragic historical narratives. Trans histories that do not neatly …
Against anticipation, or, camp reading as reparative to the trans feminine past
Whether trans people – especially trans women – were persecuted by the Nazi regime remains a contested yet under‐researched topic. But the wider political backdrop (including the culture wars and Holocaust memorialisation practices) steers this historical question with a monolithic value: victimisation. This hyper‐focus on victimisation is underpinned by a ‘paranoia’ that pre‐empts tragic historical narratives. Trans histories that do not neatly …
Trans Liminality and the Nazi State
Weimar Berlin is considered a past haven of queer possibility, but for trans people its permissiveness had clear limits. A close reading of the life of trans woman Gerd R. undermines a simple idealization of Weimar Berlin and addresses continuities and breaks between the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. How the Nazi state policed trans people is yet to be acknowledged by historians. Thus far, trans people have been subsumed into histories of que…
After Weimar; Beyond Hirschfeld? Nostalgia, Hagiography and What Comes Next
The Weimar Republic looms large in the histories of queer liberation and sexual reform movements, both in Europe and transnationally. The promise of increased openness and plurality that shaped public discourse on a variety of issues in Germany’s first democracy was especially pronounced in the realms of sexual politics and gender identities. Within this progressive environment, the Institute for Sexual Science, established in Berlin in 1919, bec…
Art (3 works) · European history and politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Nazism (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Weimar Republic (2 works)