Kit Heyam (they/he)
@krheyam.bsky.social
Queer trans writer, historian, heritage practitioner, trainer, parent. Author of BEFORE WE WERE TRANS, a Lambda nominee and History Today book of the year. http://kitheyam.com
Featuring my favourite (and most overlooked outside of niche queer literary studies) horny gay poet 😁
Ann Foster@vulgarhistory.bsky.social · last mo.What was queer life like during the Tudor era? Special guest @krheyam.bsky.social joins us to spill the tea. Listen to the podcast: podfollow.com/1489560920
Essential reading for anyone trying to understand German queer politics right now.
NOTCHES Blog@notchesblog.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew on NOTCHES: On the Origins of Queer #Islamophobia in #Germany: From Sex Tourism to Queer Fascism in The Color of Desire by Christopher Ewing. This article traces the historical development of the claim that Islam and queerness are fundamentally incompatible Link to blog: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Zg
This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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If you are in Leeds on 6 October, @krheyam.bsky.social and @helencfinch.bsky.social will be discussing with me People Without History Are Dust thebookishtype.co.uk/products/que...
Queer History Club: People Without History Are Dust - Queer Desire and
People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire and the Holocaust Where are the stories of great queer love in the Shoah? There are almost none. Anna Hájková explains why the history of same-sex desire ...
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I wrote about @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social's essential new book, and the importance of strategic pluralism, dealing with defeat, and talking to our elders, for @redpeppermag.bsky.social: www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
Deviants and trailblazers - review - Red Pepper
Rebecca Jane Morgan’s account of trans peoples' fight for recognition is a valuable resource for activists, writes historian Kit Heyam
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1/3 If you've read about the University of Sussex penalising Kathleen Stock for speaking out about biological sex, and being fined for it, this was disinformation. Now that the High Court has decided please read this corrective: www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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A total pleasure to celebrate this excellent book with Justin and Matt! ☺️
Justin Bengry@justinbengry.bsky.social · 5mo agoA wonderful evening at @thebookishtype.bsky.social in Leeds! It was a delight to join @krheyam.bsky.social along with Matt Cook to celebrate A Queer Scrapbook. Thank you Kit for such a rich and engaging conversation, and to everyone who came along! @manchesterup.bsky.social 📚 #QueerHistory #Leeds
Join me in Leeds for A Queer Scrapbook: Book Launch, Conversation and Scrapbooking Workshop with Matt Cook hosted by @krheyam.bsky.social . See you soon! Date: Wed 22nd April 2026 Time: 7-9pm Venue: @thebookishtype.bsky.social 77a Great George Street, LS1 3BR thebookishtype.co.uk/products/a-q...
A Queer Scrapbook: Book Launch, Conversation and Scrapbooking Workshop
As part of Queer History Club we are very excited to bring you a book talk, conversation and scrapbooking workshop with the editors of A Queer Scrapbook! New book A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Irelan...
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This is brilliant, but also I am especially delighted to have my first @michaelhobbes.bsky.social mispronunciation to complain about...WHY-GAN?! As in Orwell's The Road to Why-Gan Pier? I know I'm supposed to hate Wigan as a Boltonian but it doesn't deserve this 😆
Aubrey Gordon@yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 7mo agoHoly jones, WHAT A SITUATION THIS DUDE IS. Part one of a two-parter on (god help us) Russell Brand is out now! www.buzzsprout.com/1411126/epis...
Happy new year to all of you *and* to this gorgeous set of forthcoming books! I am beyond excited to finally share A Cultural History of Gender (and especially the volume I've edited, The Early Modern World) with you all.
Pleased to be interviewed for this much needed piece on the rising transphobia in higher education. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s... (Archive link: archive.is/oYqXS)
Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn
Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’
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I am terrible at promoting my own stuff, but I was recently on a very cool podcast with absolute delights @krheyam.bsky.social and Ann of @vulgarhistory.bsky.social talking all things Anne Lister! It really does get rather vulgar...
Ann Foster@vulgarhistory.bsky.social · 11mo agoRegency Era power lesbian Anne Lister was many things: secret sex diarist, land-owner, mountain climber, womanizer. We're joined by returning guest @krheyam.bsky.social and new guest Sarah Wingrove to dish all about Anne Lister’s wild life and legacy! pod.link/1489560920/e...
Where are we at with trans+ migrants rights? 🏳️⚧️ In our latest Substack blog, we reflect on what the Supreme Court ruling means for trans+ migrants, unpack interim changes to how trans+ people in #detention are treated, and how the Government is erasing gender non-conforming people🗞️ buff.ly/eLRKMrA
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⚧️ Edited by @krheyam.bsky.social and Jon Ward, "New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity" features a diverse collective of researchers sharing their experiences of approaching gender nonconformity from a decolonial perspective. Read now 👉 bit.ly/4qqROJB #OpenAccess #GenderStudies
It begins with chipping off Art 3 (freedom from torture) and Art 8 (right to privacy and family life) for foreign criminals to assist deportation, then it will be extended to all asylum seekers, after that - who knows? It's the thin end of the wedge. Human rights should always belong to all humans.
Starmer to rethink human rights law to tackle ‘Farage boats’
Prime minister blames Brexit for surge in numbers of small boat crossings but defends UK’s membership of ECHR
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The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'? Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures: www.historyworkshop....
UK medical establishment consulting with 8 anti-trans groups on medical policy on puberty blockers: Bayswater Support Group, Clinical Advisory Network on Sex & Gender, Genspect, LGB Alliance, Sex Matters, The Integrated Psychology Clinic, Thoughtful Therapists, Transgender Trend
The speed with which Labour came to the, at least implied, defence of Linehan, despite a track record of abuse and threats from him, exemplifies just how embedded the dehumanisation of trans and non-binary individuals has become as government policy. They really don't care who gets hurt.
We encourage our supporters to write to the BBC to complain about the use of a slur against trans women in this article www.bbc.com/news/article... This is directly written in text and is not a quotation.
Free speech laws need to be reviewed after Linehan arrest, says Streeting
The health secretary says ministers wanted police to focus on street crime rather than posts on social media.
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Honoured to speak to Jake Hall for their fantastic piece here, about something that leaves me frightened and furious.
Xtra @xtramagazine.com · last yr.The case of a trans man currently before a U.K. court is part of a long fascist history of restricting bodily autonomy.
Fellow freelancers, a boring tax question: do you use any accounting software, and would you recommend it? I currently, & happily, use an Excel spreadsheet - but I see this whole ~making tax digital!~ thing looming, so am reluctantly in the market for recommendations of more complicated things 🙏
It's✨publication day✨! You can order a copy, or get the open access ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d.... And I've got 5 spare hardback copies to give away to anyone who runs a book-sharing scheme or would struggle to access the ebook - hmu if that's you 🏳️⚧️📚
New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity
This open access book features a diverse collective of arts and humanities researchers, educators and creative practitioners, sharing their thoughts and experie…
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Kit Heyam (they/he)@krheyam.bsky.social · last yr.It's HERE!!! I'm ridiculously excited to finally be holding NEW AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO GENDER NONCONFORMITY: FORGING A HOME FOR OURSELVES in my hands. You can preorder, or find where to get the OPEN ACCESS ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...
Note also how France 24 refers to ‘trans people and their supporters’. In contrast to ‘trans activists’ when uk media reports. The uk has chewed on the shitty tablet of culture wars for far too long now
Emily Hamilton@emilymcminn-ms.bsky.social · last yr.Sacre Bleu! According to the BBC absolutely nothing happened in Westminster hall today, hundreds of Trans people definitely did not undertake a mass lobby and MPs certainly didn't hear from their constituents about why the EHRC is a liability. Meanwhile in France... www.france24.com/en/live-news...
It's HERE!!! I'm ridiculously excited to finally be holding NEW AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO GENDER NONCONFORMITY: FORGING A HOME FOR OURSELVES in my hands. You can preorder, or find where to get the OPEN ACCESS ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...
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We will be at parliament today reporting on the mass lobbying day. And we will try to keep you updated on the events as they unfold.
Today’s bonus Pride episode is about ancient Rome’s short-lived trans Emperor, horny teenage Elagabalus. I’m joined by @krheyam.bsky.social to discuss this teenage wild child’s short, weird reign. episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9m...
"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last yr."Junior doctors condemn gender verdict as ‘scientifically illiterate’" Helen Joyce, of Sex Matters: “It’s terrifying that a group of young doctors, all of whom have been through several years of advanced education and training in biology, have been indoctrinated by trans activism to such an extent"
