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Jamey Jesperson

@jameyj.bsky.social
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SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research & Teaching Fellow @ UBC History Historian of trans womanhood before the 20th C | Indigenous & colonial Western North America | 🏳️‍⚧️ www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/peop…

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Dissertation has been deposited, so it's official: I'm #PhDONE 📚 and (we think?) the 1st trans woman History PhD in "Canada"! Endless thanks to @rachelcleves.bsky.social @coastaljustice.bsky.social @susanstryker.bsky.social & Lynne for all your care and support. I am so lucky ❤️ Summary 🧵 is below
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Endless thanks to @rachelcleves.bsky.social for her five years of care, insight, and encouragement as I pursued this difficult work. Could not have made it past the PhD finish line without you 💗
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I write for the tumblr girlies (inclusive) and the tumblr girlies only.
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Avery Everhart @averyeverhart.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
And then this coming week
Flyer with a green background for UBC geography colloquium on november 18th featuring jasbir puar and yours truly called “you cant pinkwash a genocide: sex/gender/fascism”
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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall. bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
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Astro-TERFs - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
In the backlash against trans rights in the UK since the late 2010s, the LGB Alliance has been implicated as a leading exponent of the new moral panic, typified by its newspaper campaign against GRA r...
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Department of History - Western University @westernuhistory.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Indigenous Social Science Doctoral Fellowship. For more information, visit - www.ssc.uwo.ca/graduate/awa...
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Department of History - Western University @westernuhistory.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Equity and Diversity Social Science Doctoral Fellowship For more information on eligibility and the application, visit www.ssc.uwo.ca/graduate/awa...
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Had the loveliest of times attending my first Western History Association in Albuquerque this week! And extremely humbled to share I received the WHA Jensen-Miller Prize for best article in women's and gender history of the American West 📚🤓 #wha2025
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Take "Travesti Theory 101" online w/ scholar Marce Butierrez this October! If you are working in Trans Studies (or the like) and want/need to become more familiar with travesti/trans* life, identity, & politics in Latin America, I highly recommend this course 💗 marcebutierrez.com/2025/09/12/t...
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New course: Travesti Theory 101
In October, I will teach a new online course. The course will be synchronous. It will be about Travesti Theory. This course will teach you the basic ideas of travesti theory as they have developed …
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
For anyone in/around Vancouver, I'm giving a public lecture next Thursday, Sept 25th @sfuhistory.bsky.social! Will be sharing some new work from my dissertation, which flips the history of "contact" to centre the lives of Indigenous trans women <3 Event info below 👇🏼
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
JUST IN: The search for the next Research Chair in Trans Studies at UVic has begun! Hiring at the Associate or Full Professor level in the Faculty of Humanities or Sociology - July 2026 start 🏳️‍⚧️ If anyone wants insight on UVic or the Chair (I'm a PhD here) pls reach out! www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
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SOSC/HUMS 250-108 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria
Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.
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Mari Cohn @maricohn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
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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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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Wanted to share this exciting new CfP for a Trans Studies special issue in @early-am-lit.bsky.social ! 📜
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Grateful to attend the #SHEAR2025 Annual Meeting (my first!) I'm presenting a counter-history of "contact" as experienced by Indigenous trans women along the "Western frontier." And always-forever sharing my fav history fact: Indigenous trans womanhood is at least 4,500 years older than the USA.
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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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Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa @coastaljustice.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Excited to share that my article "(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive" is out today with the Annals of the AAG @geographers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive
Revisiting Cole Harris’s Making Native Space, this article responds to Harris’s assertion that settler attitudes toward Indigenous people were not gendered but that, rather, it was the civilization...
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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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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
My review of A Short History of Trans Misogyny is out now @ucpress.bsky.social! 📖 TL;DR It is the book we've been waiting for &, as usual, JGP doesn't disappoint; however, her extreme temporal limits necessitate stating - trans misogyny was centuries in the making by the C19 doi.org/10.1525/phr....
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Jonah I. Garde @jonahgarde.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Feels a bit surreal but Trans* Geschichten der Moderne is now available for preorders and available open access after June 30: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
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Trans* Geschichten der Moderne
Auseinandersetzungen in Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Medien: warum Trans* Geschichte und Kolonialgeschichte nicht isoliert voneinander betrachtet werden können.
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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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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Grateful for the chance to attend my first CHA and, more importantly, present on the conference's first-ever Trans History panel! I will also serve as a new representative for the Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History 🤓 @cndhistassoc.bsky.social
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/06/2025
The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.
A tweet from the official FBI Twitter account dated June 2, 2025, reads: "Help the FBI protect children. As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of gender-affirming care. Report tips of any hospitals, clinics, or practitioners performing these surgical procedures on children at 1-800-CALL-FBI or tips.fbi.gov." The tweet has 106K views.
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Aaaand we've closed out May at the National Records of Scotland - one of the most beautiful (& oldest!) archives l've visited 📜 Extreme thanks again to @thenacbs.bsky.social whose Diversity Fellowship has made this month of networking & research in Europe possible Next stop: Congress in Tkaronto ✈️
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS ARCHIVES PSA 📣 Are you a historian of Christine Jorgensen? Did you know that she donated SIXTY boxes of personal records to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen?? (I just learned this last week & suspect it is not well known. pls share! can also connect you with local Danish historians)
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Had the gayest of times in Copenhagen last week! Reunited w/ my supervisor @rachelcleves.bsky.social, heard excellent keynotes by @julianisenia.bsky.social & more, and even met my long-lost cousin @susannebranner.bsky.social, who is the fearless leader of LGBT+ Denmark (it runs in the family!) 🏳️‍🌈
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I am perpetually trying to be as cool as Cheryl Morgan, for the record 😘 thank you again for coming on Friday! Now for the Queer Pasts conference in Copenhagen! 🎉 see everyone sooooooon
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A belated thank you to @hflgbtq.bsky.social, @maayana.bsky.social, & all who joined my Oxford lecture Friday! The interest & investment from attendees was so very humbling. In lieu of a full recording (we forgot lol), I've made my script & slides available at the link below 💗 bit.ly/4kplAdI
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
In Saylesh's words, they're "popping up like daisies" 🌷🌷🌷
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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Getting ready for another fantastic lecture on trans history and gender history from @jameyj.bsky.social. Recording available if you can’t make it 😊
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Does writing a long history of trans women really take a "delirious imperialist" (Gill-Peterson, 2024)? Or is the insistent refusal to give such womanhood a name instead consistent w/ the colonial project of trans misogyny? Last call to join my Friday talk @ Oxford & online! 🏳️‍⚧️ bit.ly/3GmoBgw
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What is a “Trans Woman”?: Towards a Useful Category of Historical Analysis
Join scholar Jamey Jesperson as she tests the oft-doubted utility of “trans woman” as a category of historical analysis.
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Started off my month in the UK at the National Archives in Kew (dorky ID photo to prove it) Special thanks to the @thenacbs.bsky.social Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship, which will allow me to attend three conferences, visit two archives, and offer a visiting lecture & workshop just this month! 🙏
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Had such a lovely time connecting with colleagues at the BC Studies conference this past weekend! And such a treat to finally meet and chat with two of my favorite herstorians, @adeleperry.bsky.social & Wendy Wickwire 😊
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Excited to attend BC Studies 2025 in xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam territory this weekend! Will be presenting abridged versions of my four dissertation chapters, which micro-historically trace the lives of Indigenous people who transformed gender in the first century of colonial "contact" (~1790-1895) 🖤
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Delighted to be giving the Gender & History lecture at Uni of Bristol on 15th May (and on Zoom). Join us for a discussion of trans history, colonial history, & non-human animal history. There will, of course, be merfolk. Link here: ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...
Image of old merperson with Bristol logo and details of event (in post)
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Soooo looking forward to being in Copenhagen for the Queer Pasts conference (May 21-23)! And in a lovely queer twist of fate, I'll be connecting with a distant cousin who I spontaneously found on a SOGI listserv years back (last name Jespersen!), and who works at LGBT+ Denmark 🏳️‍🌈 The ancestors: 👯
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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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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Omg and the lack of self-reflection on excluding trans men "because the gender reassignment process has given them a male appearance” has me reeeeeeeeeeling. Someone take me out of this Black Mirror episode, please.
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Yet another legal action that proves people lack even foundational knowledge of what and who a trans woman is - not to mention an elementary understanding of biology, sex, and most crucially, MISOGYNY. Believe it or not, women do not undergo a chromosomal test before being discriminated against...
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
In case you missed it: Queering the Tensions of Empire, a new collection edited by Jarett Henderson, T.J. Tallie, and Kristen Thomas-McGill. Chapter abstracts due May 31st! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire | H-Net
Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire (edited collection)Beginning in the late 20th century, scholars influenced by postcolonial and feminist theory and social and cultural history began to...
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If you were accepted to present at the now-cancelled Berkshire Conference, you have the chance to jump to the AHA! So, anyone want to join @zaviernunn.bsky.social & me on a trans histories panel? (we are thinking of accepting the switch & just asking they put us together 😊) January 8-11 in Chicago!
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
So lovely to be in community at the @uvic.ca Moving Trans History Forward conference this weekend 💗 What a gift it is to be among the first generation of trans women who get to build History careers together, not in isolation or in the closet 🏳️‍⚧️ (11 of us & counting!) #transhistory #TDOV2025
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I am mostly offline these days, but wanted to share the ray of sunshine that is my new Research Assistant, Sunny ☀️ In between naps, he loves helping me find trans women in the archive (second picture). You can catch him in my dissertation acknowledgments already 🫶
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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Excited to be on the Advisory Board for this excellent new series 📖 Visit the link below for more information, and get in those book proposals! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...
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Queer and Trans Histories - Manchester University Press
The Queer and Trans Histories series aims to serve as a go-to place for cutting-edge stories on earlier and existing LGBTQ+ formations, and encourages work on queer and trans lives that challenge iden...
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I've finally migrated from the evil X, happy new year!
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Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain
The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it....
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