I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women of Nazi Germany Event

Join us for a reading and discussion of I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women of Nazi Germany with author Samuel Clowes Huneke. 

ABOUT THE BOOK 

In his latest book, award-winning historian Samuel Clowes Huneke shows how love, queer resistance, and collective action survived in the harrowing circumstances of Nazi rule. Drawing on a decade of archival research, Huneke takes readers into a hidden world, from the wartime balls that lesbian activists continued to organize to the concentration camps where women accused of loving women were imprisoned. Following a diverse cast of characters, Huneke reveals both the oppression that queer women faced and how they resisted fascism in solidarity with one another. Arguing that this solidarity - which transcended race, class, and gender - offers a compelling alternative to today's fractured identity politics, I Will Not Abandon You is a vital, new history of queer life under fascism and a call to rethink the foundations of progressive politics today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Samuel Clowes Huneke is a historian of Germany and associate professor of history at George Mason University. Focusing on the history of gender and sexuality, he is the author of numerous books and articles, including States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany and A Queer Theory of the State. He lives in Washington, DC.