@ainopihlak.bsky.social
Doctoral Candidate & SSHRC-funded scholar at the University of Toronto. Trans woman. Social historian of past trans feminine existences. For inquiries: aino.pihlak@mail.utoronto.ca https://ainopihlak.com/
The conference will explore how 2SLGBTQIA+ archives contribute to a broader understanding of Canadian history, bridging gaps between academia, activism, and communities amid increased threats. Proposals in French and English encouraged. CFP deadline: 26 Jan Learn more: arquives.ca/call-for-pro...
Its the end of an era! Join us exclusively in-person in Sidney Smith Hall room 2098 on November 13th from 12:10-2 pm EST for Whorestory: Balancing on Tight Ropes! Our high-flying final talk will conclude Whorestory V.2. For more information, please scan the QR code in the poster!
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 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.
Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died
Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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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.
Among the archives, you can find love, community and history | Xtra Magazine
Queer and trans archives preserve our past—they also offer community space that is essential to our future
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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 🇲🇽
Trans y Fugas, “Trans Archive and Trans Memory”
Jamie Berrout brings us a new partial translation of Mexican periodical Trans y Fugas, published by transfeminine sex worker collective Mariposas Negras and founder/editor Laura Glover.
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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/...
sarah margaret@sarahmargs.bsky.social · last yr.hey @bsky.app why was @scumbelievable.bsky.social suspended? considering the timing (she just put a new book out) it feels like someone is weaponizing your safety features in a targeted manner
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-...
I was Hired as an Expert in Transgender History—Then Fired for it
My year at Washington & Lee University
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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.
This Historian Has Seen the Future of Trans Health Care
Jules Gill-Peterson doesn’t want to fight for trans joy. She wants to fight for what trans people really need: resources, hormones, and surgery. Her latest arena? The US Supreme Court.
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I am so excited to attend this wonderful event!
Dept. of Historical Studies, UTM@utm-hs.bsky.social · last yr.🛁 Queer & trans bathhouse history, joy, resistance. QTBIPOC stories of pleasure, care & legacy. Remembering the Sugar Shack on June 10, Glad Day Bookshop (Toronto). 🆓 Free – RSVP here arquives.ca/event/rememb... Supported by LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, @arquives.ca & Glad Day Bookshop
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...
Transnational Queer Histories
The series Transnational Queer Histories aims at encouraging queer historical studies, defined at their broadest, to forge new cross-disciplinary paths and pioneer innovative intersectional approaches...
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The first issue of PICNIC MAG has been sent to printers. On sale soon! xo
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 💘
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👇
WORTHY of the EVENTS — LittlePuss Press
this SPRING Vivian Blaxell is touring North America CONVERSING with the TRANSGENDER INTELLIGENTSIA and READING from her BOOK
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I am so happy to have made a dish for this wonderful queer feast!!! arsenalpulp.com/Books/Q/Quee...
Queers at the Table
An anthology of essays, comics, and recipes that reveals the dynamic and transformative relationship between queerness and foodFood has long played an important role in queer culture. Lesbian- and que...
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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her)@aketchum22.bsky.social · last yr.Excited to announce that Queers at the Table is now available for pre-order! Published by @arsenalpulp.bsky.social +edited by me @aketchum22.bsky.social+@megelias.bsky.social w/36 contributors, it brings together essays, comics, +illustrated recipes about queer food. 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...
U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website
The “T” was removed in references to L.G.B.T.Q.+ on the official site for the Greenwich Village monument, which marks a milestone in the fight for gay rights.
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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???
Kai Cheng Thom@razorfemme.bsky.social · 2y agoOkay, like - thank you liberal cis people for posting about how "valid" trans people are, I get you want to be nice, but that is a functionally immaterial issue. The danger right now is not about being "valid" on a psychological level but about trans people's material rights being stripped away
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
Project MUSE - <i>Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin</i> by Joseph Plaster (review)
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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
