LGBTQ2S+ archives like @arquives.ca, @ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social, @invisiblehistories.bsky.social and @leatherarchives.bsky.social preserve our past. They can also drive our future, writes @ainopihlak.bsky.social.

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

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 🇲🇽

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"!

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 💛

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/...

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-...

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

☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ 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

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.

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! 🇲🇽 👀

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

I am so excited to attend this wonderful event!

It's official and I am excited to step into the footprints of @smittermeier.bsky.social as a co-editor of DeGruyter's Transnational Queer Histories series together with @manwithoutatan.bsky.social 💜 www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/tqh-b...

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

❗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

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 💘

work by @ashleyrguillory.bsky.social @cedarsageskoden.bsky.social @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social @dogspunk.bsky.social @diana-molina.bsky.social @ekalodnermar.bsky.social @jmrezes.bsky.social @johnbirdsall.bsky.social @hyzkoa.bsky.social @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social

some of our amazing contributors: @ashleyrguillory.bsky.social @cedarsageskoden.bsky.social @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social @chrisapihlak.bsky.social @dogspunk.bsky.social @diana-molina.bsky.social @ekalodnermar @jmrezes @johnbirdsall.bsky.social @hyzkoa @stackeddeckpress.bsky.social

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

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👇

I am so happy to have made a dish for this wonderful queer feast!!! arsenalpulp.com/Books/Q/Quee...

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...

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???

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

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

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

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.

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

The London Ontario transit system is full on allowing the promotion of transphobia

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...

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

“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...

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 💗

an actually good Sydney Sweeney-themed think piece is “The Money Is in All the Wrong Places” by @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social defector.com/the-money-is...

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...

it's becoming increasingly clear that trans people are literally all we have for each other . which is why I'm so against having enemies , reheating old beefs , airing petty grievances , etc. u don't have to be friends with everyone but u can be kind . stop acting like a cop . grow the fuck up

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...

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 📬

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

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...

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!

Here is the graphic I use when I teach on how the militarization of police has impacted protestors

I am so excited about my guest lecture today in the wonderful @jameyj.bsky.social 's 'Intro to Trans Histories' Course! I always love chit-chatting about my work, and I especially love thinking through trans history with undergrads! They always have such great insights

Jack Doyle and I put together a reading list for a workshop on Teaching Trans History that we ran at the Oxford History Faculty last week (featuring Kit Heyam as our wonderful guest speaker). Here's the reading list! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My tiny NZD story: At the AHA ca 2007, a commentator was reaming a grad student panelist for not getting his paper in on time. There was a tiny elderly sprite in colorful clothes sitting in the front row. She raised her hand and asked the student a thoughtful question with great respect. It was NZD.