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Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · 4d

🏳️‍⚧️ UPCOMING EVENT 🏳️‍🌈

Trans Archives Exhibit & "Everything is Special" Tour

Put your hands on Queer & Trans+ history!

FREE, open to the public
Wed, Oct 29, 2025
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
🔗 in bio

In partnership with UVic Libraries. Part of EQHR's 5 Days of Action.

#uvic #trans #transhistory #lgbtqhistory

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · 5d

🥤NACHOS NIGHT 🍟

See you there!

Tuesday, October 7, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
@ UVic Grad House

#trans #uvic #yyj

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Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · 5d

🙋🏽 PARTICIPANTS NEEDED 🙋‍♀️

Young adults, age 18-28 who identify as transgender, non-binary, intersex, or otherwise gender diverse.

Be part of a 6 week memoir theatre workshop at UVic centred on celebrating queer stories!

#uvic #trans #theatre

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Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · 12d

🥤NEXT NACHOS NIGHT! 🍟

Don't miss it:

Tuesday, October 7, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
@ UVic Grad House

See you there!

#trans #uvic #yyj

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · 13d

Allyson Allante & Sylvia Rivera.

Pictured in Imperially Yours, a newsletter published by I.Q.K.N.Y out of Manhattan, New York from 1994 - 1999.

#uvic #trans #transhistory #archives

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Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · 19d

Aaron Devor will be a keynote speaker at "Out and Authentic: Leading with Pride in Precarious Times."

October 14-16, 2025

Find out more at lgbtqleaders.net

#uvic #trans

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Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · 23d

🕒 TIME IS RUNNING OUT! 🕒

Work Study Position
(Open to UVic students only)

Student Assistant to the Chair in Transgender Studies, Oct 2025 - April 2026

190 hrs available
Project code: SOCI1
$21.00/hr

APPLY BY: Fri, Sept 19, 2025

Details ➡️ tiny.cc/6q3r001

#uvic #trans

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · 26d

🎉🥳🎈🎊🏳️‍⚧️

CONGRATULATIONS to our 2025 Chair in Transgender Studies #Scholarship & #Fellowship Recipients!

Read more about them and their projects:
link in bio.

#uvic #yyj #trans #transstudies

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Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · 26d

🎶 Don’t miss this! 🎶

Opera singer & theatre creator Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 (they/he) leads a masterclass for UVic School of Music voice students.

📍 UVic School of Music
🎟 Admission by donation
➡️ tiny.cc/n2ms001

Supported by Pacific Opera Victoria

#uvic #trans #transartist

Photo by Sam Gaetz

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Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · 29d

FROM THE ARCHIVES

A tribute to jazz musician Billy Tipton who "lived and died as a man . . . and the notion that he was anything less than a man is a denial of everything that he was."

Image 1: FTM no. 7 (1989), Image 2: Dys-Course Vol. 5 no. 5 (1993)

#uvic #trans #transhistory #archives

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Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Sep 11

🏳️⚧️ FROM THE ARCHIVES 🏳️⚧️

An ad from ITV Magazine for the Belfast Butterfly Club. The group started in 1991 and continues to this day.

ITV Magazine ran from 1992-1995, published in Northern Ireland. Linda Marshall was its editor & president.

#uvic #trans #transhistory #archives

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Sep 10

🥤NEXT NACHOS NIGHT! 🍟

Mark your calendars:

Tuesday, October 7, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
@ UVic Grad House

See you there!

#trans #uvic #yyj

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Sep 9

🥤 HAPPENING SOON! 🍟

Tuesday, Sept 9, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
@uvicgradhouse

See you there :)

#trans #uvic #yyj

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Sep 9

📢 DEADLINE APPROACHING! 📢

Work Study Position
(Open to UVic students only)

Student Assistant to the Chair in Transgender Studies, Oct 2025 - April 2026

190 hrs available
Project code: SOCI1
$21.00/hr

Application deadline: Sept 19, 2025

⬇️ Details ⬇️
tiny.cc/6q3r001

#uvic #trans

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Sep 9

🥤 TOMORROW! 🍟

Tuesday, Sept 9, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
@uvicgradhouse

#trans #uvic #yyj

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Sep 8

This event has been cancelled.

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Sep 5

❗THIS MONDAY❗

Elio Colavito

"Another Like Me: Female-to-Male Trans Information Activism & Community Formation in Canada & the US, 1970-2000"

Monday, Sept 8, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
UVic, Cornett A317 & Zoom

(Registration required if joining online)

#uvic #trans #transhistory

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Sep 3

🥤 NEXT WEEK - NACHOS NIGHT! 🍟

Tuesday, Sept 9, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
@uvicgradhouse

#trans #uvic #yyj

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Aug 27

🛜 ONLINE ARTICLE 🛜

"15 Famous Trans Men Throughout History"

🔗 www.cuindependent.com/famous-trans-man-throughout-history 🔗

Who can name the one pictured here?

#transmen #transhistory #trans

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Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢 STILL TIME TO APPLY! 📢

WORK STUDY POSITION
(Open to UVic students only)

Student Assistant to the Chair in Transgender Studies, Sept 2025 - April 2026

190 hrs available
Project code: SOCI1
$21.00/hr

⬇️ Details ⬇️
tiny.cc/6q3r001

#uvic #trans

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Aug 26

🥤2 WEEKS TILL NACHOS NIGHT! 🍟

After a short break in August, we're back on Sept 9!

Mark your calendars:

Tuesday, Sept 9, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
@uvicgradhouse

#trans #uvic #yyj

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Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢 UPCOMING TALK 📢

Elio Colavito

"Another Like Me: Female-to-Male Trans Information Activism & Community Formation in Canada & the US, 1970-2000"

Monday, Sept 8, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
UVic, Cornett A317 & Zoom

Registration required if joining online ➡️ tiny.cc/8vnr001

#uvic #trans

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Aug 16

Update: TransFest has been cancelled.

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Aug 14

🎙️ NEW PODCAST EPISODE 🎙️

"Our Gender is Infinite: On Aiyyana Maracle with Syrus Marcus Ware"

Aiyyana Maracle was a multi-disciplinary artist, scholar, educator, story-crafter and storyteller.

Find her collection at the Transgender Archives ➡️ tiny.cc/0x6r001

#uvic #trans #archives #transhistory

Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · Aug 12

📢 JOIN OUR TEAM! 📢

WORK STUDY
(Open to UVic students only)

Student Assistant to the Chair in Transgender Studies, September 2025 - April 2026

190 hrs available
Project code: SOCI1
$21.00/hr

⬇️ Details ⬇️
tiny.cc/6q3r001

#uvic #trans