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  Open issue

  Vol. 30 No. 3-4 (2025)

  THIS OPEN ISSUE encompasses no less than six research articles, an essay, and two reviews. Two of the articles scrutinize Christian communities as contexts in which queers express desires and resistance, in Finland (Alasuutari) and Norway (Røthing, Lilletun Langeland & Widahl). Eirik Skjelstad explores a young nonbinary individual’s navigation of gender, identity, and social norms, and Lena Sotevik and Amanda Nordin analyse young rural queers’ resistance towards urban norms. Queer waiting in the novel The Hours (von Seth), and bottom shaming (Vytniorgu & Garcia-Iglesias) are other themes explored in the research articles. In the issue’s essay Malin Fors muses on an imagined future in which LGBTQ+ educational interventions would be redundant.

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  Queering National Histories

  Vol. 31 No. 1 (2026)

  WHILE THE NORDIC COUNTRIES are frequently characterized as progressive and LGBTQ+-affirming societies, insiders recognize the substantial historical and contemporary disparities between metropolitan centres such as Copenhagen or Stockholm and the peripheral regions. This special issue examines queer lives and histories situated within political, power-relational, and cartographical peripheries. Two contributions present methodological examples for the queering of national literary canons and national myths through queer historical research. Four papers offer analyses of recent institutional initiatives to
  reframe national historical narratives from the perspectives of sexual and gender minorities through memory institutions and commemorative events in Finland, Iceland, and Norway. This special issue is a contribution to queer historiography in national contexts where such scholarship has been notably limited, and to provide critical insights into how national histories can be queered both on narrative levels and through queer practices.

  Cover art: The ABC Queers by Bianco Casco