Solidarity with the postal workers. The proposed cuts - the mere idea of eliminating the century-old foundational idea of "getting mail at your home", all because Canada Post doesn't "turn a profit like a business" - should be embarrassing for us as a country

Some weekend reading: my article on the first gender clinic in Canada! Don't forget to check it out!

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.

'I've been exploring the uses of trans history as a tool of political education: one that moves beyond questions of visibility, validity, or 'always being here'.' Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo on Imagining Trans Futures:

So regularly destroyed is trans stuff that it's an obscure fact that 2 words beginning with trans (transfeminate and transection) were in English dictionaries to describe someone who 'changed sex' from the mid 1600s until well into the 20th century.

Some weekend reading: my article on the first gender clinic in Canada! Don't forget to check it out!

I am co-editing the Trans Museology issue with @magmidd.bsky.social ! Please share with your circles and consider submitting for this incredibly important issue!

We welcome challenges, critiques, provocations, and confrontations. Potential topics include: -Trans methodology -Trans labor in museums -New strategies for interpreting trans content -Intersections with race, indigeneity, disability -Anti-colonial approaches 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

I am co-editing the Trans Museology issue with @magmidd.bsky.social ! Please share with your circles and consider submitting for this incredibly important issue!

We've got active two calls for papers out now! Trans Museology: www.museumedu.org/journal/call... Translating Museum Education: www.museumedu.org/journal/call...

ICYMI: I have a new article on Canadian Transgender History for Defining Moments Canada. Follow the link below!

ICYMI: I have a new article on Canadian Transgender History for Defining Moments Canada. Follow the link below!

The Clarke Institute opened Canada's first gender clinic in Toronto in 1969, but outside of transgender circles, its history is not very well-known. Which is why I wrote this article for Defining Moments Canada. I hope you will read it!

The Clarke Institute opened Canada's first gender clinic in Toronto in 1969, but outside of transgender circles, its history is not very well-known. Which is why I wrote this article for Defining Moments Canada. I hope you will read it!

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VENUS a mini comic about girls night uniting us all 1/2

OutHistory is beginning to compile a bibliography on the war on LGBTQ+ history, featuring government directives, media stories, and organizational responses. We welcome suggestions for additional items to include at [email protected]. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

This video has got it all: millions of dollars of stolen wealth, luxurious overindulgence, and a death that occurred under mysterious circumstances. youtu.be/bWbegMOQOO8?...

Confederate statues are “history” but a rainbow crosswalk dedicated to victims of a mass shooting is “political.”

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"!

Lol’d darkly at the idea of them bringing in scab museum guides from Nottinghamshire. Cavalry charges from the Met on horseback against striking, tweed clad, museum curators

The amount of articles I have read with anonymous museum employees and or volunteers who are scared of losing their jobs because of toxic workplaces pales in comparison to this one where the toxic workplace is the federal government

Got a big interview which could take me to the other side of the world, but requires business attire. Wish me luck! And hopefully I don't melt, considering it is supposed to feel like 38° all day 😅

Catching up w the guy who made the BM chatbot where you could chat w human remains & did u kno your uncomfortableness with that comes from "an obsequious need for moral & ideological purity, & obedience to a set of ideological principles that were far from mainstream" www.talms.me/posts/living...

I am shocked by this. Even more shocked that CBC does not give a reason why Halton is doing this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The body representing museums and galleries in Scotland has warned the EHRC's proposals may force museums to close their doors. “To avoid discrimination, it would require every person using toilets to be checked, adding substantial workload and staff costs." www.thenational.scot/news/2534402...

Checking my website's analytics and saw someone supposedly came from German Wikipedia? Am I linked on a German wikipedia page or something??? I know the tracking for Weebly is often very wrong, but I am so curious about this.

A few of the other personal websites from Canadian gay activists that I've found and have been a joy to discover. Jearld Moldenhauer's website has so many photos and comments on early gay liberation in Toronto and Canada. Jearld founded both Glad Day and the Body Politic.

A few of the other personal websites from Canadian gay activists that I've found and have been a joy to discover. Jearld Moldenhauer's website has so many photos and comments on early gay liberation in Toronto and Canada. Jearld founded both Glad Day and the Body Politic.

Rick Bébout's website is a rabbit hole that I discovered while researching for a project on Canadian queer history. Bébout was a writer for the Body Politic and experienced much of queer activism in Toronto and his website is a personal account of it all. www.rbebout.com/bar/contents...

One of my proudest essays to date is finally out! A text that would have helped me tremendously as a grad student: "The Political Economy of Museums" - ideal for anyone beginning to research this topic. doi.org/10.1093/acre...

Plus, in the 20th-century one of the trans subcultures which most loved to taxonomize are also one of the least examined by contemporary queer scholars: heterosexual transvestites! If this caught your attention, please read further in this open-access article below: doi.org/10.1177/1363...

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

Historian at work!

All set up at Peel Pride to take about queer and trans history! Brought a bunch of my personal library to show off and chat!

All set up at Peel Pride to take about queer and trans history! Brought a bunch of my personal library to show off and chat!

Manifesting a job offer from the Saint-Pierre et Miquelon local history museum.

TIL (on mastodon) that the US National Park Service has crochet patterns! www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Saint-Pierre et Miquelon are my Roman Empire. One day I shall visit France via a ferry from Newfoundland.

The derpy horse is everything to me

"Screenshot from Second Life or 70 year old Alex Colville painting."

☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ 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

This is a truly impressive collection of trans books, including some very rare ones that I am incredibly jealous of!

Thinking once again about the time Andy Warhol toured a John Singer Sargent exhibition in 1986 and absolutely read Sargent's gay ass. Happy Pride Month! (Trevor Fairbrother, "Warhol Meets Sargent at Whitney" Art Magazine no. 61, February 1987)

Thinking once again about the time Andy Warhol toured a John Singer Sargent exhibition in 1986 and absolutely read Sargent's gay ass. Happy Pride Month! (Trevor Fairbrother, "Warhol Meets Sargent at Whitney" Art Magazine no. 61, February 1987)

One year ago, we released our video on Museums and Sex! If you haven't seen it, do give it a watch!

One year ago, we released our video on Museums and Sex! If you haven't seen it, do give it a watch!

It's the one year anniversary of Museums and Sex! My friend @nturavrgcistory.bsky.social and I put a lot of work into this discussion of gender, sex, and museums. We co-wrote the script, and Amelia created her own blog post to accompany this project, so check it out 🥰 youtu.be/aPcaW95TzKo?...

This is finally out in North America! When we shot it, I didn’t realize I was going to be the main historical storyteller.

I started wearing glasses at 3 months old, have had asthma inhalers as long as I can remember, and have been taking ADHD medication since I was 6 years old in 2001. But I'm guessing the NYT won't consider those to be "lifelong treatments", eh?