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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 20/01/2026

The conference will explore how 2SLGBTQIA+ archives contribute to a broader understanding of Canadian history, bridging gaps between academia, activism, and communities amid increased threats. Proposals in French and English encouraged. CFP deadline: 26 Jan Learn more: arquives.ca/call-for-pro...

FROM MARGINALIZATION
TO VISIBILITY: 2SLGBTQ+ Archives & Public Memory
May 15-17, 2026, Halifax, Nova Scotia (hybrid)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

We invite proposals on the following topics, and others, relating to Queer and Trans histories and archives:

• Two-spirit and Indigenous Queer histories or methods
• Projects on racialized Queer/Trans archives or histories
• Community-led Queer history/archival initiatives
• Education and Queer history, or teaching Queer history
• Atlantic Canada Queer and Trans Histories
• Queer and Trans archival projects
• Queering the archive and archiving Queer resistance
• Exploring the limits of the "institutional" archives
• Queer approaches to public history and memorialization
• 2SLGBTQIA+ military histories and/or The Purge
• Canada/US solidarity and histories of activism across borders

Accepting proposals for: panels, roundtables, workshops, individual papers/presentations, and creative and innovative approaches and formats.

Application deadline
January 26, 2026 Visit arquives.ca for more info.

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Its the end of an era! Join us exclusively in-person in Sidney Smith Hall room 2098 on November 13th from 12:10-2 pm EST for Whorestory: Balancing on Tight Ropes! Our high-flying final talk will conclude Whorestory V.2. For more information, please scan the QR code in the poster!

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Hey tricks and treats! Join us on October 15th from 12:10-2 pm EST in-person or over Zoom for Whorestory Volume Two: Mind the Gap(s)! Scan the QR to reserve your in-person or Zoom ticket! #sexwork #whorestory #herstory #sexworkiswork 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

You can’t keep a good hooker down. We’re back! I am pleased as punch to announce the first entry of Whorestory v2: "The Dressed Body: Sex-Workers’ Aesthetics and Artifices!" Register via the QR Code to join us in-person or Zoom on September 25th from 12:10- 2 pm EST #sexwork #whorestory #herstory

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 25/08/2025

NEW: With a new first-time translation from Jamie Berrout, I'm delighted to share this 2023 interview with Mariposas Negras cofounder Laura Glover, originally printed in the zine Trans y Fugas. Mariposas Negras is a transfemme sex worker collective on the front lines of Mexican trans activism 🇲🇽

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Trans y Fugas, “Trans Archive and Trans Memory”

Jamie Berrout brings us a new partial translation of Mexican periodical Trans y Fugas, published by transfeminine sex worker collective Mariposas Negras and founder/editor Laura Glover.

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

After a wonderful summer of research at the @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social I am excited to share some of my findings! Join me on August 29th at 10 am EST in-person or over Zoom for my public lecture “Islands of Belonging: 20th-Century Trans Feminine Social Worlds and The Indiana Crossdresser Society"!

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Grateful to kickoff the Fifth Annual Critical Femininities Conference with this 🌟 star-studded 🌟 panel: "TransNational TransFemininities," feat. @chanathipswn.bsky.social, @ainopihlak.bsky.social, Sam Dolores Sanchinel, & Heng Wang, tracing trans feminine lives across territories & time 💛

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Ellie Marney @elliemarney.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Only management can revoke Gretchen Felker-Martin's account suspension, but her book came out yesterday, so you can support her in other ways! torpublishinggroup.com/black-flame/...

cover image of BLACK FLAME by Gretchen Felker-Martin, featuring (against a black gradient background) a black-haired woman with glowing yellow eyes, crying black tears, as dirty cinematic film falls out of her mouth

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

There are less trans woman History Professors in the US than I have fingers on one hand, and one of them was just FIRED 🚨 Why? Anti-trans alumni/donors threatened to pull support form the university... substack.com/home/post/p-...

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I was Hired as an Expert in Transgender History—Then Fired for it

My year at Washington & Lee University

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

New Publication Day! After years of research and discussion with the ever-brilliant Emily Cousens, #Sexualities has just published our open-access article “1970s Transvestite Taxonomies and the New Queer Frontier.” doi.org/10.1177/1363... #histsex #transhistory #queerhistory 1/3

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ Back at it again! I am so happy to announce Whorestory Volume Two! This is a speaker series for Fall of 2025 blending ‘traditional’ academic talks AND compensated presentations by current/former sex workers! 1/3 #sexwork #whorestory #herstory #Toronto #ISWD #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #CfP

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 03/07/2025

There's a major language barrier between Latin and Western trans lit, which is precisely why it's so important to take the time to uplift and share transfemme voices in publishing from the Global South. As such, I'll be publishing Jamie's translation of an interview with MN members this summer.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 03/07/2025

Hey all, super excited to announce I've had the pleasure of chatting recently with Jamie Berrout, who's been working with Mariposas Negras, a transfemme sex worker activist and art collective based out of Mexico City. They're launching a Spanish-language publication called Trans y Fugas! 🇲🇽 👀

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TRANSY FUGAS
EXPOSICIÓN DE TRANSEXUALES ¡PLASTICIDADES
ENCARNADAS!
¡RENIEGAN DE LA BIOLOGÍA!
¡QUE ATREVIMIENTO!
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¡CATASTROFE
EN TODO EN EL MUNDO
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EL PAÍS
DEL ARTE!
EDITORA A CARGO LAURA GLOVER
DISEÑO EDITORIAL INDIRA TROCHE

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/06/2025

Jules Gill-Peterson isn’t mincing words: Forget euphemisms like “gender euphoria.” “We need hormones, sex changes, and surgeries.” Not affirmation—access.

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This Historian Has Seen the Future of Trans Health Care

Jules Gill-Peterson doesn’t want to fight for trans joy. She wants to fight for what trans people really need: resources, hormones, and surgery. Her latest arena? The US Supreme Court.

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I am so excited to attend this wonderful event!

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joyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The first issue of PICNIC MAG has been sent to printers. On sale soon! xo

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Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

❗THIS THURSDAY❗ Aino Pihlak "Putting the Femme in Feminist" Thursday, May 22, 2025 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PDT (UTC-7) UVic Cornett A317 & Zoom (Registration required if joining online) #uvic #yyj #trans

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Ecstatic to be at Oxford next month! And yes, I have a few things to say about that UK Supreme Court case which *checks notes* did not hear from a single trans woman. Maybe a few thousand years of trans herstory can speak instead 🏳️‍⚧️ #transhistory #histsex #lgbtqhistory #transstudies #transrights 💘

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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Very excited to share this poster, which shows our amazing crew of 38 contributors to Queers at the Table (pre-order here: arsenalpulp.com/Books/Q/Quee...) @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social

38 portraits in circles, with a QR code, and the book cover Queers at the Table

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 02/03/2025

In April we are publishing @vivianblaxell.bsky.social's extraordinary WORTHY OF THE EVENT. This is WORTHY of some EVENTS in its own right Vivian will be in North America for a 16-date TOUR! She will be READING from her BOOK and CONVERSING with LUMINARIES of the TRANSGENDER INTELLIGENTSIA details👇

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WORTHY of the EVENTS — LittlePuss Press

this SPRING Vivian Blaxell is touring North America CONVERSING with the TRANSGENDER INTELLIGENTSIA and READING from her BOOK

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/02/2025

They literally removed the T from LGBTQ and erased any mention of trans people who were present at the Stonewall Riots. They're trying to erase us from history. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

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U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website

The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.

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Kai Cheng Thom @razorfemme.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Deeply frustrating in a "can the subaltern speak way" how we keep trying to explain how the risk is impoverishment, imprisonment, violence & death, and the liberal/left keeps on saying "I'm so sorry, don't worry, you are valid" in response???

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

As this newest anti-trans onslaught begins, trans life continues! I am defiantly happy to share my first book review! It is on the wonderfully trans & queer as hell 🕮 “Kids on the Street," by Joseph Plaster! Check it out in the JHS: muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic... #histsex #queerhist

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Project MUSE - <i>Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin</i> by Joseph Plaster (review)

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

the phrase “an unbiased historical actor” and the assertion that a full membership vote amongst thousands is less “representative” than a vote of a 20 person council would not be acceptable from an undergraduate in a 101 level survey course

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I love to start 2025 off with some herstory at #AHA2025 ! I spoke on how the preponderance of white, middleclass crossdressers affectively & materially structured the influence of homophobic, racist, & whorephobic discourses in certain 20thC trans femme Western subcultures @historians.org

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The cissonance, truly 🫠 Wrapping up a handbook chapter on the FOUR-century historiography of "berdache"/2S now & can finally confirm what we've been thinking: *it is a history of trans women* (& v marginally trans men), from the 16th C onwards. Almost nothing cis gay or "third gender" about it lol.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 27/12/2024

Preservation is at the heart of what we do. This year, we released the Vanishing Culture report— detailing instances of cultural loss and emphasizing the role that libraries and archives play in preserving materials. Help us in saving these resources:https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024

Vanishing Culture cover featuring media types dissolving.

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Two-Spirit Emerging Writer Grant! 🌟 (Jan 5th) To help an emerging writer complete their first manuscript, for submission to End of Line Press (2026 release). Recipient receives $4k CAD, promotion by the press, & mentorship from author Arielle Twist! Share widely 📧 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Google Forms: Sign-in

Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/12/2024

Black trans women stepped up when so many LGBTQ org leaders are failing us.

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Christine Jacobson @cejacobson.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

“Without primary source materials on assorted sexual topics and populations and practices, there is no scholarship: only speculation and assumptions and prejudices and gossip" good article featuring efforts at Schlesinger and Houghton, among others: www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/19/m...

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The XXX files: Why Harvard librarians are archiving vintage porn - The Boston Globe

Research libraries in Cambridge and across the country are hurrying to collect sexual ephemera from Americans’ pasts, before it’s too late.

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

A belated thank you to all who joined our "Herstories of Trans Femininity" panel at Queer History Conference this week! Let QHC24 go down as the year the dolls invaded 💅 Endless love to my sisters Aixia Huang, Chanathip (Esther) Suwannanon, Sam Dolores Sanchinel, & @chrisapihlak.bsky.social 💗

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Trans misogyny has a long history, but so does trans world-making in its face. And almost always at its centre, the sex worker 💅 Join me for my (first!) visiting lecture on Tuesday, March 5th at the University of Toronto or online 💘 Register for free here: tinyurl.com/sexworkersco...

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Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

This morning we are excited to bring you a new Doing Radical History feature from @chrisapihlak.bsky.social! Chris tells us both a personal story and offers ideas about what social history can offer to trans studies. abusablepast.org/trans-social...

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Trans Social History Amidst Trans Social Death – The Abusable Past

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

It's real @chrisapihlak.bsky.social! 💗 Our fully trans-designed, trans-authored, & trans-edited special issue of The Graduate History Review is still available free & open access at tinyurl.com/ghrvol12. Hard copies for contributors now in the mail 📬

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Props to Jacobin for writing an entire book-length obit on Kissinger and sitting on it until today jacobin.com/kissinger-on...

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Only the Good Die Young

The Verdict Against Henry Kissinger

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Amelia Smith @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

NEW BLOG POST! What do you do when your historic site does not have any queer history to interpret, but you want to expand the inclusion? I keep coming back to this question and I finally have an answer: Composite Histories. Read my post here: www.notyouraveragecistory.com/blog/composi...

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Composite Histories: How To Interpret Queer History Where It Does Not Exist

A case study on how to create queer interpretation at historical sites that do not have obvious queer histories.

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

I am so hype to speak with Emily Cousens tomorrow at the Cambridge Gender & Sexuality Workshop! Our talk is, "Putting the Femme in Feminist: The Male Lesbian & Sex-Positive Trans Lesbian Feminism in the 2nd-Wave." Nothing better than talking about horny 2nd-wave trans lesbians at 7 in the morning!

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