imagine that you are one of the queer subjects who were being written about in one of the three primary sources below:
“Some Cross-Dressing Women,” (England 1760).
“A Colonial Cross-Dresser,” (Mexico, 1796).
Cox, “A Curious Account,” (North America, 1832).
This history lab is about practicing historical empathy: meaning, putting yourself into the position of another individual in the past and attempting to understand the world from their perspective or point of view. This is something that we do as historians all the time, but here you are being asked to do so as one of the queer subjects documented in these sources.
To complete this task, you are write a 350-400 word counter-narrative to the one documented in the primary source. While you are encouraged to use your imagination to flesh out your individual and the things that they might have found odd or strange or queer about the individual who wrote about them, do remember these were real human beings so be sure to treat them as humanely
Be sure to include some example of how the individuals in the text might have interpreted the “straightness” or rigid gendered ideals of the source author through their own experiences and how, from their subject position, they might have seen those authors and their ideas as queer. Be sure to base your accounts on the examples and evidence from the assigned primary sources. Be sure to include the date and name of the fictional publication that you have created.
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