Jess
@oncewilting.bsky.social
Queer historian of Atlantic Canada. PhD Candidate at York (thx SSHRC). She/her. SOGIESC educator and queer & trans+ activist. Chronic overcommitter and dissertation procrastinator. 🍉 🏳️🌈 ✂️ living in Kjipuktuk (HFX) & from Epekwitk (PEI)
I would gladly join any other robed technophobes looking to stand up against AI in the humanities
ActiveHistory.ca@activehist.bsky.social · last yr.In today’s post Edward Dunsworth explores and critiques the use of AI in scholarship, academia, and the classroom. Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
“how people should protest the right way” is a parlor game played by people whose experience of protest is watching the news on tv
One striking quotation from the article shared here about how anti trans rhetoric is never in good faith "Because the goal was never to improve care or protect children — it was to eliminate transgender people from public life entirely."
What nonsense is this? An equality and human rights commissioner telling a group of people that they must accept fewer rights? This commission is not fit for purpose. ##TransRightsAreHumanRights
EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept perceived reduced rights
Akua Reindorf said law never permitted self-ID, but trans campaigners call remarks ‘profoundly unhelpful’
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Amazing panel on trans histories at CHA this year. Great work from @jameyj.bsky.social, Renée Szematowicz, Elio Colavito, and @ainopihlak.bsky.social !
Read our next post in the Queering Atlantic Canada series! Meredith J. Batt explores the history of St. John’s The Lighthouse. Make sure to check out the rest of the series, edited by Jess Wilton @oncewilting.bsky.social
A Beacon of Light: Hidden 2sLGBTQ+ Histories in Saint John’s The Lighthouse
by Meredith J. Batt Atlantic Canadian port cities have some of the most colourful and vibrant queer spaces and stories. Saint John, New Brunswick is no exception. In 2020, the first summer of the p…
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Do you know anybody working as a scholar, researcher, archivist, activist, or artist who might want to write about Atlantic Canada queer history? If so, send them my way! #NS #PEI #NL #NB #queerhistory #canadaqueerhistory #AtlanticCanada
Next article of the series out now! This convo with Sarah was so fun and I can't wait to see what they'll do next Read about some cool Atlantic Canada queer history here and in the previous posts
ActiveHistory.ca@activehist.bsky.social · last yr.@oncewilting.bsky.social sits down with Sarah Worthman, executive director of the NL Queer Research Initiative, to discuss her work on queer history in Newfoundland. Read the article here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/04...
I am team “AI should not be used in any level of education” and this thread is super important.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last yr.Im seeing endless workshops on "how to use AI/incorporate AI in the classroom" etc, does anyone know of workshops on how to refuse AI? Not even be critical of AI (which is often just one or two slides of handwaving-but-it-is-here) but to refuse it in the classroom and in our research?
some gorgeous queer Black poetry to read for the last day of Black History Month and beyond <3 All titles are (as always!) available ✨for free✨in @libby.app with a QLL membership! Don’t have one? Sign up at queerliberationlibrary.org/members 💞
If you missed the CBC interview earlier you can hear it here! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Someone asked me how it's possible to study queer history because "isn't it mostly based on rumours?" Boy did I have some rough news to break about studying history in general
Meredith J Batt and I will be on CBC Halifax at 440 today! Tune in to hear more about the Queering Atlantic Canada series
The reason the archives are so cold isn't to preserve the records. It's actually because if historians were allowed to be warm while researching they would never leave and their articles would never be finished. (Jokes, because obviously we historians aren't finishing their articles anyway)
Getting nervous as heck about this talk 😬 but still looking forward to giving it! 😃 You can sign up to watch it online at the link below ⬇️ #cdnhist #envhist #envhum #histstm
@sfuhistory.bsky.social · 2y agoJoin us for “A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North” with Tina Adcock from SFU History. Discover the legacy of Canada's 'exploration' of the far north. Feb 27 | 1 PM | In-person & Online Info: a-cold-colonialism.eventbrite.ca @sfufass.bsky.social @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social
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Houston's government in NS is trying to pass a bill that will seriously threaten our democracy and move us closer to authoritarianism. If you're terrified at what's happening in the US, this is the time to act. Fascism doesn't happen overnight, it's a slow erosion. Contact your MLA.
Karen Blair@karenblair.bsky.social · 2y agoThe always astute Tom Urbaniak of Cape Breton University: "We have a real case in Nova Scotia of an ailing democracy." His colleague David Johnson concurs: "It is an example of enormous and unwarranted executive overreach." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Watching my SO's soccer game and she just made the most killer save. All the other soccer husbands watching their wives are jealous 😌
It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like -check them out regularly at the library -request the library order them if they don’t have them -buy them -start or support banned book clubs -organize a banned book kids story time A real shame
I don’t mean to say that historical fiction can’t be criticized in terms of its presentation of history. But I think it’s a serious problem that far more public ink goes to critiquing novelists’ source work or directors’ casting decisions than the gutting of libraries, archives and history programs.
The fact is, Canada is deeply implicated in the same kind of fascist forces we see at play in the U.S. In fact, many of the alt-right thought leaders there are Canadians! So if you want to fight this you MUST root it out at home first, and nationalism isn't know for that kind of nuance. Do better.
12 There is no neutrality. Non-commitment is a betrayal of the responsibility we owe our fellow humans and the living world. Study history. Form discussion groups. Organise. Slava Ukraini! Black Lives Matter. Women, Life, Freedom! Free Palestine! Vive le Canada !
i don’t trust people who aren’t overly caffeinated and don’t use “fuck” as a sentence enhancer.
Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth
Still looking for contributors for this series! Reach out if you (or anyone you know) might want to write on the heritage, histories, and/or archives of queer Atlantic Canada
ActiveHistory.ca@activehist.bsky.social · 2y agoIn today's post, @oncewilting.bsky.social introduces the series, Queering Atlantic Canada, she will edit this year.
In today's post, @oncewilting.bsky.social introduces the series, Queering Atlantic Canada, she will edit this year.
Queering Atlantic Canada: Stories, Histories, Archives
by Jess Wilton Cradled by the Atlantic Ocean, the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island (PEI), and Newfoundland and Labrador occupy a unique place in queer and Canadian hist…
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