good creative ideas are always infuriating because they inevitably mean more work

Check out this video I made in collaboration with CBC Arts! 🎨 If you like it, please leave a comment sharing your thoughts as I would not only love to hear from you, but if CBC sees the engagement, they will consider working with me again!! youtu.be/ePxc1VjEXXM?...

Beyond excited to share this video I worked on with @christeah.bsky.social and the CBC! The Skylight Caper is the largest art heist in Canadian history, and yet it is not well known. Learn why by following the link below! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePxc...

So incredibly grateful that I got to attend the book launch for the new edition of Gendertrash from Hell. The energy fills me with so much emotion that it is difficult to put into words. Excited to finally read Gendertrash as well, now that I have a physical copy! A read is long overdue.

Beyond excited to share this video I worked on with @christeah.bsky.social and the CBC! The Skylight Caper is the largest art heist in Canadian history, and yet it is not well known. Learn why by following the link below! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePxc...

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

New video! Today, I am discussing the pros and cons of free #museum admission. Let me know what you think in the comments! youtu.be/crX05RyPK6w?...

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

Another article I wrote for Defining Moments Canada is online! I was commissioned to write about the history of the ArQuives, Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives, through its various offices across Toronto. Really proud of this piece; I like to think of it as a pseudo-exhibition! Please check it out!

How can museums stand in solidarity with their local transgender communities? “I think the biggest thing is opening their doors to us,” said trans activist Arlo West. “When museums stand up and say, ‘We support trans people,’ it sends a powerful message.” www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

Another article I wrote for Defining Moments Canada is online! I was commissioned to write about the history of the ArQuives, Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives, through its various offices across Toronto. Really proud of this piece; I like to think of it as a pseudo-exhibition! Please check it out!

I love buying used books because it often means I'll get a small inscription from the previous owner. Like a thread connecting queer communities across time.

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

It is the last few days to submit for our special issue on Trans Museology! Deadline is midnight on October 15th. Be sure to get your abstracts to us and be part of this exciting journal issue!

It is the last few days to submit for our special issue on Trans Museology! Deadline is midnight on October 15th. Be sure to get your abstracts to us and be part of this exciting journal issue!

Useful tip for all the Canadians with student loans! Did you know that you can make your student loans interest free?

When you go to a wedding next to a railway museum, you are obligated to get some photos on the trains.

Hey tricks and treats! Join us on October 15th from 12:10-2 pm EST in-person or over Zoom for Whorestory Volume Two: Mind the Gap(s)! Scan the QR to reserve your in-person or Zoom ticket! #sexwork #whorestory #herstory #sexworkiswork 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

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...