Take "Travesti Theory 101" online w/ scholar Marce Butierrez this October! If you are working in Trans Studies (or the like) and want/need to become more familiar with travesti/trans* life, identity, & politics in Latin America, I highly recommend this course 💗 marcebutierrez.com/2025/09/12/t...

For anyone in/around Vancouver, I'm giving a public lecture next Thursday, Sept 25th @sfuhistory.bsky.social! Will be sharing some new work from my dissertation, which flips the history of "contact" to centre the lives of Indigenous trans women <3 Event info below 👇🏼

JUST IN: The search for the next Research Chair in Trans Studies at UVic has begun! Hiring at the Associate or Full Professor level in the Faculty of Humanities or Sociology - July 2026 start 🏳️‍⚧️ If anyone wants insight on UVic or the Chair (I'm a PhD here) pls reach out! www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

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 💛

Wanted to share this exciting new CfP for a Trans Studies special issue in @early-am-lit.bsky.social ! 📜

Grateful to attend the #SHEAR2025 Annual Meeting (my first!) I'm presenting a counter-history of "contact" as experienced by Indigenous trans women along the "Western frontier." And always-forever sharing my fav history fact: Indigenous trans womanhood is at least 4,500 years older than the USA.

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-...

Excited to share that my article "(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive" is out today with the Annals of the AAG @geographers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ 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

My review of A Short History of Trans Misogyny is out now @ucpress.bsky.social! 📖 TL;DR It is the book we've been waiting for &, as usual, JGP doesn't disappoint; however, her extreme temporal limits necessitate stating - trans misogyny was centuries in the making by the C19 doi.org/10.1525/phr....

Feels a bit surreal but Trans* Geschichten der Moderne is now available for preorders and available open access after June 30: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

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

Grateful for the chance to attend my first CHA and, more importantly, present on the conference's first-ever Trans History panel! I will also serve as a new representative for the Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History 🤓 @cndhistassoc.bsky.social

The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.

Aaaand we've closed out May at the National Records of Scotland - one of the most beautiful (& oldest!) archives l've visited 📜 Extreme thanks again to @thenacbs.bsky.social whose Diversity Fellowship has made this month of networking & research in Europe possible Next stop: Congress in Tkaronto ✈️

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS ARCHIVES PSA 📣 Are you a historian of Christine Jorgensen? Did you know that she donated SIXTY boxes of personal records to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen?? (I just learned this last week & suspect it is not well known. pls share! can also connect you with local Danish historians)

Had the gayest of times in Copenhagen last week! Reunited w/ my supervisor @rachelcleves.bsky.social, heard excellent keynotes by @julianisenia.bsky.social & more, and even met my long-lost cousin @susannebranner.bsky.social, who is the fearless leader of LGBT+ Denmark (it runs in the family!) 🏳️‍🌈

I am perpetually trying to be as cool as Cheryl Morgan, for the record 😘 thank you again for coming on Friday! Now for the Queer Pasts conference in Copenhagen! 🎉 see everyone sooooooon

A belated thank you to @hflgbtq.bsky.social, @maayana.bsky.social, & all who joined my Oxford lecture Friday! The interest & investment from attendees was so very humbling. In lieu of a full recording (we forgot lol), I've made my script & slides available at the link below 💗 bit.ly/4kplAdI

In Saylesh's words, they're "popping up like daisies" 🌷🌷🌷

Getting ready for another fantastic lecture on trans history and gender history from @jameyj.bsky.social. Recording available if you can’t make it 😊

Does writing a long history of trans women really take a "delirious imperialist" (Gill-Peterson, 2024)? Or is the insistent refusal to give such womanhood a name instead consistent w/ the colonial project of trans misogyny? Last call to join my Friday talk @ Oxford & online! 🏳️‍⚧️ bit.ly/3GmoBgw

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Started off my month in the UK at the National Archives in Kew (dorky ID photo to prove it) Special thanks to the @thenacbs.bsky.social Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship, which will allow me to attend three conferences, visit two archives, and offer a visiting lecture & workshop just this month! 🙏

Had such a lovely time connecting with colleagues at the BC Studies conference this past weekend! And such a treat to finally meet and chat with two of my favorite herstorians, @adeleperry.bsky.social & Wendy Wickwire 😊

Excited to attend BC Studies 2025 in xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam territory this weekend! Will be presenting abridged versions of my four dissertation chapters, which micro-historically trace the lives of Indigenous people who transformed gender in the first century of colonial "contact" (~1790-1895) 🖤

Delighted to be giving the Gender & History lecture at Uni of Bristol on 15th May (and on Zoom). Join us for a discussion of trans history, colonial history, & non-human animal history. There will, of course, be merfolk. Link here: ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

Soooo looking forward to being in Copenhagen for the Queer Pasts conference (May 21-23)! And in a lovely queer twist of fate, I'll be connecting with a distant cousin who I spontaneously found on a SOGI listserv years back (last name Jespersen!), and who works at LGBT+ Denmark 🏳️‍🌈 The ancestors: 👯

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 💘

Omg and the lack of self-reflection on excluding trans men "because the gender reassignment process has given them a male appearance” has me reeeeeeeeeeling. Someone take me out of this Black Mirror episode, please.

Yet another legal action that proves people lack even foundational knowledge of what and who a trans woman is - not to mention an elementary understanding of biology, sex, and most crucially, MISOGYNY. Believe it or not, women do not undergo a chromosomal test before being discriminated against...

In case you missed it: Queering the Tensions of Empire, a new collection edited by Jarett Henderson, T.J. Tallie, and Kristen Thomas-McGill. Chapter abstracts due May 31st! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

If you were accepted to present at the now-cancelled Berkshire Conference, you have the chance to jump to the AHA! So, anyone want to join @zaviernunn.bsky.social & me on a trans histories panel? (we are thinking of accepting the switch & just asking they put us together 😊) January 8-11 in Chicago!

So lovely to be in community at the @uvic.ca Moving Trans History Forward conference this weekend 💗 What a gift it is to be among the first generation of trans women who get to build History careers together, not in isolation or in the closet 🏳️‍⚧️ (11 of us & counting!) #transhistory #TDOV2025

I am mostly offline these days, but wanted to share the ray of sunshine that is my new Research Assistant, Sunny ☀️ In between naps, he loves helping me find trans women in the archive (second picture). You can catch him in my dissertation acknowledgments already 🫶

Excited to be on the Advisory Board for this excellent new series 📖 Visit the link below for more information, and get in those book proposals! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...

I've finally migrated from the evil X, happy new year!

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.

It's my favorite time of year: 🏳️‍⚧️ the UVic Trans Histories Museum! 🖼️ Tracing ✨glimpses & glimmers✨ of trans life from antiquity to the present, my undergrads recreate lost objects of #transhistory for display in a pop-up museum, this year hosted by @uviclibraries.bsky.social Buckle in 🥲

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...

Only TEN DAYS until Lustful Appetites is released in the UK! Time for a countdown. Each day I'm going to post about one of the book's ten chapters (in order, because I'm a historian, dammit, not a mad woman) www.amazon.co.uk/Lustful-Appe...

Call for conference contributions to ‘Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History?’ taking place in Copenhagen in May 2025. CFP deadline is 10 January 25.

The starter pack of history journals/publications has finally reached 149!*🎉 🗃️ I am hopeful that as more academic societies migrate to Bluesky that we can create packs/lists/feeds that cater to specific sub-disciplines 😄 #skystorians #history #AcademicSky #academic

November 20th marks #TransDayofRemembrance, which first took place on this day in 1999 🏳️‍⚧️ As we mourn and remember trans lives taken by violence this year, we'd like to share some pieces from HW's #transhistory archive 🧵👇 1/8 #queerhistory #transliberation

It was an honor to receive a Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship from @thenacbs.bsky.social last night! With their support, I'm headed to the UK (Edinburgh & London) for a month of archival research for my dissertation in May. Congrats to full recipient Olivia Wyatt 🎉 (I'll get her on here soon!!)

For anyone headed to Denver for @thenacbs.bsky.social, I wanted to share I'll be presenting on a Friday panel about British trade & economy (lol)! My paper is about a brutal collision of worlds - the British fur trade and Indigenous trans feminine life - at Fort Vancouver in the 1830s (new stuff!)

Very belated, but I had a wonderful time at the PNW History Conference last month! Was privileged to present the hook of my dissertation intro, which contrasts two early-19th-C stories of "men dressed as women" - one from the British colonial archive, one from Stó:lō oral history 📜

Ecstatic to share my newest (& fav!) pub: "Trans Sex Work in Colonial North America: A Herstory" 💗 It traces the phenomenological link between trans femininity & sex work across time, zooming in on three micro-histories of trans women from 1650 to 1840. You can find it here: t.co/569TBIXXQl