Endless thanks to @rachelcleves.bsky.social for her five years of care, insight, and encouragement as I pursued this difficult work. Could not have made it past the PhD finish line without you 💗

Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · last mo.

Congratulations to @jameyj.bsky.social for successfully defending her doctoral dissertation "Re-Storying Indigenous Trans Women in the Colonial Pacific Northwest, 1814-1895" yesterday. She brought everyone to tears with her amazing archival work and loving recuperation of her subjects' lives. Brava!

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And then this coming week

My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall. bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...

Indigenous Social Science Doctoral Fellowship. For more information, visit - www.ssc.uwo.ca/graduate/awa...

Equity and Diversity Social Science Doctoral Fellowship For more information on eligibility and the application, visit www.ssc.uwo.ca/graduate/awa...

Had the loveliest of times attending my first Western History Association in Albuquerque this week! And extremely humbled to share I received the WHA Jensen-Miller Prize for best article in women's and gender history of the American West 📚🤓 #wha2025

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...

New course: Travesti Theory 101

In October, I will teach a new online course. The course will be synchronous. It will be about Travesti Theory. This course will teach you the basic ideas of travesti theory as they have developed …

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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...

SOSC/HUMS 250-108 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria

Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

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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-...

I was Hired as an Expert in Transgender History—Then Fired for it

My year at Washington & Lee University

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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....

(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive

Revisiting Cole Harris’s Making Native Space, this article responds to Harris’s assertion that settler attitudes toward Indigenous people were not gendered but that, rather, it was the civilization...

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☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ 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...

Trans* Geschichten der Moderne

Auseinandersetzungen in Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Medien: warum Trans* Geschichte und Kolonialgeschichte nicht isoliert voneinander betrachtet werden können.

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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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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 ✈️

Jamey Jesperson@jameyj.bsky.social · last yr.

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! 🙏

🏳️‍⚧️ 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

Cheryl Morgan@cherylmorgan.bsky.social · last yr.

Excellent day in Oxford listening to @jameyj.bsky.social talk about trans herstory. Bodes well for the Queer Pasts conference in Copenhagen next week. Hope I can be as interesting.

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