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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I would gladly join any other robed technophobes looking to stand up against AI in the humanities

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

“how people should protest the right way” is a parlor game played by people whose experience of protest is watching the news on tv

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

One striking quotation from the article shared here about how anti trans rhetoric is never in good faith "Because the goal was never to improve care or protect children — it was to eliminate transgender people from public life entirely."

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Read about some amazing pei trans history here!

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Andrew Robinson (no, not Garak) @andrewr.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

What nonsense is this? An equality and human rights commissioner telling a group of people that they must accept fewer rights? This commission is not fit for purpose. ##TransRightsAreHumanRights

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EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept perceived reduced rights

Akua Reindorf said law never permitted self-ID, but trans campaigners call remarks ‘profoundly unhelpful’

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Amazing panel on trans histories at CHA this year. Great work from @jameyj.bsky.social, Renée Szematowicz, Elio Colavito, and @ainopihlak.bsky.social !

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Do you know anybody working as a scholar, researcher, archivist, activist, or artist who might want to write about Atlantic Canada queer history? If so, send them my way! #NS #PEI #NL #NB #queerhistory #canadaqueerhistory #AtlanticCanada

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Next article of the series out now! This convo with Sarah was so fun and I can't wait to see what they'll do next Read about some cool Atlantic Canada queer history here and in the previous posts

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Marnie Kaplan @marniekaplan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I am team “AI should not be used in any level of education” and this thread is super important.

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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

some gorgeous queer Black poetry to read for the last day of Black History Month and beyond <3 All titles are (as always!) available ✨for free✨in @libby.app with a QLL membership! Don’t have one? Sign up at queerliberationlibrary.org/members 💞

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

If you missed the CBC interview earlier you can hear it here! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Someone asked me how it's possible to study queer history because "isn't it mostly based on rumours?" Boy did I have some rough news to break about studying history in general

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Meredith J Batt and I will be on CBC Halifax at 440 today! Tune in to hear more about the Queering Atlantic Canada series

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The reason the archives are so cold isn't to preserve the records. It's actually because if historians were allowed to be warm while researching they would never leave and their articles would never be finished. (Jokes, because obviously we historians aren't finishing their articles anyway)

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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Getting nervous as heck about this talk 😬 but still looking forward to giving it! 😃 You can sign up to watch it online at the link below ⬇️ #cdnhist #envhist #envhum #histstm

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Houston's government in NS is trying to pass a bill that will seriously threaten our democracy and move us closer to authoritarianism. If you're terrified at what's happening in the US, this is the time to act. Fascism doesn't happen overnight, it's a slow erosion. Contact your MLA.

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Watching my SO's soccer game and she just made the most killer save. All the other soccer husbands watching their wives are jealous 😌

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Whitney Alese @thereclaimed.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like -check them out regularly at the library -request the library order them if they don’t have them -buy them -start or support banned book clubs -organize a banned book kids story time A real shame

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I don’t mean to say that historical fiction can’t be criticized in terms of its presentation of history. But I think it’s a serious problem that far more public ink goes to critiquing novelists’ source work or directors’ casting decisions than the gutting of libraries, archives and history programs.

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Second post of the series!

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The fact is, Canada is deeply implicated in the same kind of fascist forces we see at play in the U.S. In fact, many of the alt-right thought leaders there are Canadians! So if you want to fight this you MUST root it out at home first, and nationalism isn't know for that kind of nuance. Do better.

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Robin Metcalfe @robinmetcalfe.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

12 There is no neutrality. Non-commitment is a betrayal of the responsibility we owe our fellow humans and the living world. Study history. Form discussion groups. Organise. Slava Ukraini! Black Lives Matter. Women, Life, Freedom! Free Palestine! Vive le Canada !

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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

hope to see you on the 25th!

AFRICAN HERITAGE MONTH
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
ASHA
JEFFERS
CLAUDETTE
BOUMAN
HABIBA DIALLO
ANDRE FENTON
CORY
LAVENDER
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 7PM
HALIFAX CENTRAL LIBRARY
PAUL O'REGAN HALL, 1ST FLOOR

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Nadine Antoinette 🖤📚 @lilblackheart.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

i don’t trust people who aren’t overly caffeinated and don’t use “fuck” as a sentence enhancer.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Still looking for contributors for this series! Reach out if you (or anyone you know) might want to write on the heritage, histories, and/or archives of queer Atlantic Canada

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Imara Jones @imarajones.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Since the National Park Service is trying to erase the singular role that trans people played in starting Stonewall, here’s a piece I wrote about the devastating, four-decade-long consequences of erasing trans women in the 1970s from the queer rights movement. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

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Trans Women of Color Are the Past and Future of LGBTQ Liberation

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Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

happy valentine's day! may your day be filled with sweet things and plenty of romance tropes <3

graphic of a blue conversation heart that reads SLOW BURN

graphic of a blue conversation heart that reads ENEMIES TO LOVERS

graphic of three conversation hearts. the blue one reads ENEMIES TO LOVERS. purple reads LOVERS TO ENEMIES. green one reads FRIENDS TO ROOMMATES TO ENEMIES TO LOVERS TO ENEMIES AGAIN TO, ULTIMATELY, LOVERS

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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Robin Metcalfe @robinmetcalfe.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

On 14 February 1979, officers of Pink Triangle Press received the first of three acquittals on obscenity charges. That summer, on my initiative, the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Rights Coalition declared the date an annual lesbian and gay holiday, Pink Triangle Day. www.robinmetcalfe.ca/pink-triangl...

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Pink Triangle Day

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Libraries are great for the books, sure, but it's also nice to have a quiet and safe space to sit and think- a place where no one is trying to sell you anything.

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Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In our blog we shared recipes from across the Nova Scotia Museum. Nan's Pound Cake from the Black Loyalist’s Heritage Centre was a favourite. (Spoiler alert - this one's a keeper).

Black Loyalist’s Heritage Centre - Nan’s Pound Cake
Ingredients
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 cup butter
½ cup shortening
3 cups sugar
6 extra large eggs
1 cup milk

Directions
Stir together flour, salt, and baking powder.

Cream together butter, shortening and sugar. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk. Pour batter into greased tube pan. Bake at 325F for 1 ½ hours. Coll in pan for 15 minutes, then cool on rack. Enjoy…..

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emily 🪩🍒 @enchantedplanet.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

you guys look at what I’m stitching 🍴🍯

Work in progress with only the outline done, hand embroidered hoop art of Winnie the Pooh sitting down to eat with ‘eat the rich’ written on it

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

How can we trace same-sex relationships in rural archives, when love letters were heavily euphemistic or burned after reading? For LGBTQ+ History Month, Tim Jerrome shares his research into queer rural relationships: from his first find, to the challenges faced. merl.reading.ac.uk/blog/2025/02...

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Thomas and Austen: a gay relationship in the MERL archives? - The Museum of English Rural Life

For LGBTQ+ History Month 2025, researcher Tim Jerrome shares how he's using rural archives to research same-sex relationships in the countryside.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The Making Gay History podcast is in its 14th season: exploring queer lives under National Socialism and in the context of the Holocaust. They use recordings, interviews and consultation from historians. Bookmark it, pals. Remembering our history has urgency. makinggayhistory.org/the-podcast/

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The Podcast | Making Gay History

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Awesome Canadian #queerhistory podcast to check out Created by Tom Hooper, Scott MacDougall, Christine Sismondo, and Brent Bodrug, the series takes an imaginative approach to "the closet" in post-war Toronto mother-goose.simplecast.com

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Mother Goose

Welcome to Mother Goose, a four-part podcast that invites you to imagine what it would be like to live in post-war Toronto under the conditions of “the closet.”

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Jess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Skated on Lake Banook today with my girlfriend and couldn't stop thinking about this horse race that was held there in 1959 We should step up our ice entertainment. Also look at the cars on the lake!!! Reference: Nova Scotia Information Service Nova Scotia Archives number 12457

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Starter pack for Queer & Trans History (modern & contemporary)! This is a very incomplete work in progress - suggested additions welcome :) go.bsky.app/DF3FYCh

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Invisible Histories @invisiblehistories.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Made a queer history and archives starter pack! Let us know if we’re missing folks. It’s hard rebuilding community on a new platform go.bsky.app/HPDLvAs

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

how is it still january

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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We’ve spoken to CJ about his excessive silliness levels multiple times yet here he is again, rolling around, purring, making biscuits in mid-air, just basically being AN UNREPENTANT GOOFBOY.

Photo of an adorable white and ginger shorthaired cat lying in a box, stretching one paw toward the camera and looking goofy.

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