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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Had a great time on this roundtable - thanks to everyone involved! Feeling jazzed and hopeful! @jaretthenderson.bsky.social @echenier.bsky.social @stevenmaynard.bsky.social

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ahhhhh thank you for this timely advice! I will go tomorrow

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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Precisely. Be weary of anyone who renders an academic field in such simplistic terms. This binary has plagued #History’s public perception since the 1990s, and has been particularly destructive in an era when reading long form is in such decline. #cdnhist

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

the photo artist and documentarian michael de courcy has posted a series of videos on youtube, comprised of hundreds of street photography portraits he made of visitors to expo 86 in vancouver. here is one of them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9yb... #bchist #cdnhist #worldclasscity

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ONE in a MILLION: An anonymous documentary of visitors to Expo 86, Vancouver BC – Part 3 of 3

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We also read Clare Sears' "All that Glitters: Trans-ing California's Gold Rush Migrations" and students were taken with Sears' discussion of white masculinity as constructed in opposition to the "femininity" of Chinese men. These readings emphasized the interplay between gender, race, & sexuality.

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In Week 4, we moved into the 19th century and explorations of queerness and race. Hansen's analysis of the "bosom sex" between Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus was blowing minds in our classroom; we really recommend her article "'No Kisses is Like Yourse'" from @genderandhistory.bsky.social.

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Similarly, in responding to Richard Godbeer's thorough examination of the sin of sodomy in colonial New England, students were incensed by how the criminalization of men who pursued sex with other men during this period is one of the only means by which we know of them now - through court documents.

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

That video paired very well with Elizabeth Reis' article on intersex bodies and "same-sex" sex in 17th and 18th century British North American colonies. Students were indignant about the violations Thomas/ina Hall faced during trial, and this piece really affirmed the fluidity of physical sex.

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I also started Week 3 with a video from the same series, this one featuring Maria Tridas explaining #intersex. Extremely useful video for laying out some key info as well as parameters for safe(-r) class discussion (re: slurs to avoid).

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What Does Intersex Mean? | InQueery | them.

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

These conversations were helped along by starting class with this video featuring Passamaquoddy two-spirit activist and story-teller Geo Neptune. Students then had lots of questions about the #2SLGBTQIA+ acronym, especially the shifting placement of the "2S" in relation to the rest of it.

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What Does "Two-Spirit" Mean? | InQueery | them.

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We also learned about Kaúxuma núpika from @scrawfordobrien.bsky.social's article "Gone to the Spirits: A Transgender Prophet on the Columbia Plateau," which generated great discussion on themes of both articles (transformation, boundary-crossing, and death and rebirth), as well as research methods.

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In Week 2, we shifted to considering Indigenous genders & sexualities. Students were shattered and then uplifted by Deborah A. Miranda's "Extermination of the Joyas: Gendercide in Spanish America" article. Revelatory study of the resilience and reclamation of Chumash third gender people & histories.

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

All of that, plus listening to oublaire's "History Hates Lovers" song (fair warning: this will get stuck in your head), and a critical discussion of the Genderbread Person (optional reading: xtravisage.medium.com/beyond-the-g...) made for a great start to the course.

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HISTORY HATES LOVERS (Lyrics)

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Week 1 started with some classics: Faderman's "Who Hid Lesbian History?" and @susanstryker.bsky.social's terminology intro to her book Transgender Histories. Students were really upset by the bowdlerization Faderman discusses, and learned a *lot* from working through Stryker's definitions.

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I'm teaching a seminar on 2SLGBTQIA+ histories of North America this summer (a pedagogical #Pride season project) and I thought I'd share a bit about the course here, focusing on the readings as we move through them each week. #queerhist #cdnhist #ushist

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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 25/05/2026

I have been working on this travelling exhibit for the last couple years - but it has its origins in my graduate studies. The exhibit begins with a 3 minute introductory video which you can watch below. It launches next week in Nanaimo, and coming to a Vancouver Island community near you #cdnhist

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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Disappointed with how little attention has been given today to the 300th anniversary of the Mi’kmaw-British Peace & Friendship Treaties, the first treaties with the English in what became #Canada. The silence says it all in terms of the work needed for #TreatyEducation. #Cdnhist #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Your periodic reminder that the @ucalgarypress.bsky.social / @nichecanada.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment series exists, that it's print/open-access, & that I'm always on the lookout for the next potential volume. Talk to me. press.ucalgary.ca/series/canad... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Haha thanks so much, very belatedly, Tina - I have not been on here at all for (checks notes) almost a year, and forgot to share about this article!

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University of Manitoba Press @umanitobapress.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

One book to change the narrative. Championed by Shayla Stonechild, A TWO-SPIRIT JOURNEY by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer is the WINNER of Canada Reads 2025! Watch the thrilling final episode here: www.youtube.com/watc... #CanadaReads #CanadaReads2025 📷: Joanna Roselli/CBC

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ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

historians of education in canada: are there any good studies of ontario's separate school system in the post-1945 and especially post-1960s time period? or perhaps any royal commissions, moments of controversy, etc in that same time period? asking for a student #cdnhist #histed

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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

you don’t mess with the cobra chicken like

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record) I don’t remember seeing anything like this before

A mostly blank page with the words Strong and Free, from the English version of the Canadian national anthem )
Below the fold of this newspaper sheet , in smaller type, news and editorial references to the trade war

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Lee Beavington, PhD @wildethic.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Indigenous Speaker Series starts tomorrow! Open to the KPU community. Full details and to register: form.jotform.com/250496841196...

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

As I've been working on this land acknowledgements thing, a lot of people I've talked to have asked me why First Nations have overlapping territories. So I wrote a Substack post explaining it. open.substack.com/pub/rjago/p/...

This is a map of Europe centred on the Holy Roman Empire circa 1600. The map is filled with hundreds tiny and confusing borders and few large states.

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Super excited for this dynamic, exciting program at BC Studies this May!

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Even nice ones that you’ve been expecting can be tough to read. Solidarity!

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Aww that would be awesome but my research focuses on the other coast sadly! Keep me in mind though if you ever wanna do something on teaching queer histories?

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Maddie Knickerbocker @maddieknicker.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This sounds great! I finally got my queer histories of N Am seminar approved and I’m running it for the first time next summer. Will definitely draw on this. I did have one Atlantic Canada piece in it when I ran it as a special topics a few years ago, but always happy to add more! Thx for this!

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Jess Dunkin @jdunkin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Last fall, Dr. Crystal Gail Fraser (@ualberta.bsky.social) and I launched How I Survived, a podcast about recreation at residential and day schools in the Canadian North that celebrates the strength, resilience, spirit, and creativity of former students and Survivors. www.howisurvived.ca

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

(toby ziegler voice) and it was elon, WHO NO ONE ELECTED

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"I became a textbook author for a few reasons, the most important being the reason we all write: the possibility of changing people’s minds." @alanmaceachern.bsky.social's essay is live today. activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...

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Confessions of a Textbook Author

Alan MacEachern Last year, an email informed me of a death. Two, actually. Top Hat would no longer publish Origins: Canadian History to Confederation or Destinies: Canadian History since Confederat…

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,

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Claire Campbell @clairecampbell.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

How to handle winter: by dressing like it's Quebec circa 1806. Library & Archives Canada tinyurl.com/5ykubcct vs. tinyurl.com/mph347e5 #envhist #cdnhist

A "French Canadian" woman circa 1806-1816, from John Lambert's "Travels through Canada, and the United States of North America"; and a woman wearing a comfy. They look similar - both long, hooded, pink, and with white underlay.

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Historica Canada @historicacanada.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Today is Lincoln Alexander Day! Alexander was the first Black Canadian member of Parliament (1968), Cabinet minister (1979) and lieutenant-governor (Ontario, 1985). Alexander also served for five terms as chancellor of the University of Guelph. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/l...

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Lincoln Alexander

Lincoln MacCauley Alexander, CC, OOnt, QC, lieutenant-governor of Ontario 1985–91, member of Parliament 1968–80, lawyer, public servant (born 21 January 192...

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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

every time i get to the end of a meeting i feel like I need to lie down for 10 days is this normal

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We've got a brand new NiCHE Series CFP! The first of 2025. Call for Contributors: The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry at 50 Please email pitches of 200 words in length to Mark Stoller by February 28th!! niche-canada.org/2025/01/21/c... #envhist #cdnhist #energyhistory #pipelines

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Call for Contributors: The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry at 50

NiCHE invites reflections on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry at 50, it’s historical significance and legacy, and its continuing importance today.

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