Trans+ History Week
@transhistoryweek.com
Official page for Trans+ History Week.
Key calendar week wordwide.
May 04-10 2026
Nonprofit CIC
Donate: transhistoryweek.com/donate
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Launchpad project from @wearequeeraf.com
Key calendar week wordwide.
May 04-10 2026
Nonprofit CIC
Donate: transhistoryweek.com/donate
linktr.ee/transhistoryweek
Launchpad project from @wearequeeraf.com
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Trans+ History Week
@transhistoryweek.com
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🗓️ Mark your calendars for Trans+ History Week 2026
04–10 May
Get the history lesson you never had, find our what’s in store, early-bird ticket alerts and a history article every day of Trans+ History Week with @wearequeeraf.com
Sign up www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistory...
04–10 May
Get the history lesson you never had, find our what’s in store, early-bird ticket alerts and a history article every day of Trans+ History Week with @wearequeeraf.com
Sign up www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistory...
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There perhaps isn’t a more British way to say gender is a construct than with Shakespeare is there? 🎭
Learn all about the gender foolery that took place in Shakespearean England 👇
Learn all about the gender foolery that took place in Shakespearean England 👇
Back when boys, played girls, pretending to be boys
There perhaps isn’t a more British way, to say - gender is a construct - than with Shakespeare is there?
www.wearequeeraf.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:36 AM
There perhaps isn’t a more British way to say gender is a construct than with Shakespeare is there? 🎭
Learn all about the gender foolery that took place in Shakespearean England 👇
Learn all about the gender foolery that took place in Shakespearean England 👇
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🏳️🌈 How can we reckon with the history we were never told?
Start with Historical Homos - the world's only no-f**ks-given guide to queer history 👇
Start with Historical Homos - the world's only no-f**ks-given guide to queer history 👇
How homos can reckon with the history we were never told
Trans+ history is a source of creativity, experimentation, disruption, resistance, spirituality, and yes, pain, but also joy - our collab with Historical Homos
www.wearequeeraf.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:02 PM
🏳️🌈 How can we reckon with the history we were never told?
Start with Historical Homos - the world's only no-f**ks-given guide to queer history 👇
Start with Historical Homos - the world's only no-f**ks-given guide to queer history 👇
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In 2025, for the first time since tracking began, Trans+ rights in Europe retracted instead of grew @tgeuorg.bsky.social
What is the media's role in rising transphobia? What can we, as individuals, do about this? www.wearequeeraf.com/the-media-an...
What is the media's role in rising transphobia? What can we, as individuals, do about this? www.wearequeeraf.com/the-media-an...
The media and advertising industry's role in rising transphobia
What we can do to advocate for a better media industry by playing a role at work and advocate for better responsibility from businesses
www.wearequeeraf.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:02 PM
In 2025, for the first time since tracking began, Trans+ rights in Europe retracted instead of grew @tgeuorg.bsky.social
What is the media's role in rising transphobia? What can we, as individuals, do about this? www.wearequeeraf.com/the-media-an...
What is the media's role in rising transphobia? What can we, as individuals, do about this? www.wearequeeraf.com/the-media-an...
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How did you come across ballroom? 🪩
You may recognise it from Pose or Paris Is Burning. But what began as a home curated by queer icons has grown into a worldwide community 🧵
You may recognise it from Pose or Paris Is Burning. But what began as a home curated by queer icons has grown into a worldwide community 🧵
January 3, 2026 at 12:02 PM
How did you come across ballroom? 🪩
You may recognise it from Pose or Paris Is Burning. But what began as a home curated by queer icons has grown into a worldwide community 🧵
You may recognise it from Pose or Paris Is Burning. But what began as a home curated by queer icons has grown into a worldwide community 🧵
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#ResistanceRoots
Lynn Conway was born on this day in 1938 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She was a computer scientist, electrical engineer and prominent transgender rights activist whose work at IBM and Xerox PARC fundamentally reshaped the architecture of modern computing and the semiconductor industry. /1
Lynn Conway was born on this day in 1938 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She was a computer scientist, electrical engineer and prominent transgender rights activist whose work at IBM and Xerox PARC fundamentally reshaped the architecture of modern computing and the semiconductor industry. /1
January 3, 2026 at 1:40 AM
#ResistanceRoots
Lynn Conway was born on this day in 1938 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She was a computer scientist, electrical engineer and prominent transgender rights activist whose work at IBM and Xerox PARC fundamentally reshaped the architecture of modern computing and the semiconductor industry. /1
Lynn Conway was born on this day in 1938 in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She was a computer scientist, electrical engineer and prominent transgender rights activist whose work at IBM and Xerox PARC fundamentally reshaped the architecture of modern computing and the semiconductor industry. /1
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And I was delighted to speak at Trans+ History Week @transhistoryweek.com
about my journalism and wider work, especially with QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com
about my journalism and wider work, especially with QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
And I was delighted to speak at Trans+ History Week @transhistoryweek.com
about my journalism and wider work, especially with QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com
about my journalism and wider work, especially with QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com
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Time for my Annual Big Bumper Data Backup Day!
Also a good excuse for me to remind folk that Preserve This Podcast is essential reading/listening for all podcasters, even the freaks who don't obsess about media preservation *waves cheerily*
preservethispodcast.org
Also a good excuse for me to remind folk that Preserve This Podcast is essential reading/listening for all podcasters, even the freaks who don't obsess about media preservation *waves cheerily*
preservethispodcast.org
December 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Time for my Annual Big Bumper Data Backup Day!
Also a good excuse for me to remind folk that Preserve This Podcast is essential reading/listening for all podcasters, even the freaks who don't obsess about media preservation *waves cheerily*
preservethispodcast.org
Also a good excuse for me to remind folk that Preserve This Podcast is essential reading/listening for all podcasters, even the freaks who don't obsess about media preservation *waves cheerily*
preservethispodcast.org
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Roberta Cowell might have been born into a strict, religious family - but her history is one with many lessons.
This is how a transgender pilot survived the Nazis and set racing records 🏳️⚧️🧵
This is how a transgender pilot survived the Nazis and set racing records 🏳️⚧️🧵
The transgender pilot who survived the Nazis and set racing records
The complex legacy of Roberta Cowell - a pioneering figure in motorsports and the first UK trans woman to get gender affirming surgery
www.wearequeeraf.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Roberta Cowell might have been born into a strict, religious family - but her history is one with many lessons.
This is how a transgender pilot survived the Nazis and set racing records 🏳️⚧️🧵
This is how a transgender pilot survived the Nazis and set racing records 🏳️⚧️🧵
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What can a handkerchief tell us about queerness and Trans+ life?
Find out in this episode from the latest series of the @wearequeeraf.com podcast with @transhistoryweek.com 🧵
www.wearequeeraf.com/the-tension-...
Find out in this episode from the latest series of the @wearequeeraf.com podcast with @transhistoryweek.com 🧵
www.wearequeeraf.com/the-tension-...
The tension and dependency of the handkerchief - do you feel it too?
From the hanky code, to the oh so queer cravat - how much do we depend on objects, to express our queer and Trans+ identities?
www.wearequeeraf.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
What can a handkerchief tell us about queerness and Trans+ life?
Find out in this episode from the latest series of the @wearequeeraf.com podcast with @transhistoryweek.com 🧵
www.wearequeeraf.com/the-tension-...
Find out in this episode from the latest series of the @wearequeeraf.com podcast with @transhistoryweek.com 🧵
www.wearequeeraf.com/the-tension-...
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Your invite to join us in January.
📣 Join us for the Trans+ History Week 2026: Workbook Launch with QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com and powered by DIVA Charitable Trust @divamag.bsky.social
🗓️Mon 26 Jan
📍City of London in-person & Online
17.30 GMT London
12.30 EST New York
👉 Secure your spot. RSVP www.outsavvy.com/event/32286/...
🗓️Mon 26 Jan
📍City of London in-person & Online
17.30 GMT London
12.30 EST New York
👉 Secure your spot. RSVP www.outsavvy.com/event/32286/...
December 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Your invite to join us in January.
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📣 Join us for the Trans+ History Week 2026: Workbook Launch with QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com and powered by DIVA Charitable Trust @divamag.bsky.social
🗓️Mon 26 Jan
📍City of London in-person & Online
17.30 GMT London
12.30 EST New York
👉 Secure your spot. RSVP www.outsavvy.com/event/32286/...
🗓️Mon 26 Jan
📍City of London in-person & Online
17.30 GMT London
12.30 EST New York
👉 Secure your spot. RSVP www.outsavvy.com/event/32286/...
December 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
📣 Join us for the Trans+ History Week 2026: Workbook Launch with QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com and powered by DIVA Charitable Trust @divamag.bsky.social
🗓️Mon 26 Jan
📍City of London in-person & Online
17.30 GMT London
12.30 EST New York
👉 Secure your spot. RSVP www.outsavvy.com/event/32286/...
🗓️Mon 26 Jan
📍City of London in-person & Online
17.30 GMT London
12.30 EST New York
👉 Secure your spot. RSVP www.outsavvy.com/event/32286/...
📣 Join us for the Trans+ History Week 2026: Workbook Launch with QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com and powered by DIVA Charitable Trust @divamag.bsky.social
🗓️Mon 26 Jan
📍City of London in-person & Online
17.30 GMT London
12.30 EST New York
👉 Secure your spot. RSVP www.outsavvy.com/event/32286/...
🗓️Mon 26 Jan
📍City of London in-person & Online
17.30 GMT London
12.30 EST New York
👉 Secure your spot. RSVP www.outsavvy.com/event/32286/...
December 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
📣 Join us for the Trans+ History Week 2026: Workbook Launch with QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com and powered by DIVA Charitable Trust @divamag.bsky.social
🗓️Mon 26 Jan
📍City of London in-person & Online
17.30 GMT London
12.30 EST New York
👉 Secure your spot. RSVP www.outsavvy.com/event/32286/...
🗓️Mon 26 Jan
📍City of London in-person & Online
17.30 GMT London
12.30 EST New York
👉 Secure your spot. RSVP www.outsavvy.com/event/32286/...
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I feel a spiritual kinship with the organisers of Lilith Fair.
The magic of that moment. Of building infrastructure yourself. Of flying while putting the wings on the plane. Of making mistakes and learning and growing together. Of carving out space in a hostile climate. Of love and community.
The magic of that moment. Of building infrastructure yourself. Of flying while putting the wings on the plane. Of making mistakes and learning and growing together. Of carving out space in a hostile climate. Of love and community.
December 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I feel a spiritual kinship with the organisers of Lilith Fair.
The magic of that moment. Of building infrastructure yourself. Of flying while putting the wings on the plane. Of making mistakes and learning and growing together. Of carving out space in a hostile climate. Of love and community.
The magic of that moment. Of building infrastructure yourself. Of flying while putting the wings on the plane. Of making mistakes and learning and growing together. Of carving out space in a hostile climate. Of love and community.
Announcement coming Monday 18.00 GMT
December 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Announcement coming Monday 18.00 GMT
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The DIVA Awards 2026 public nominations are now open.
Do me a favour and nominate @transhistoryweek.com - it’s been a challenging year and we’ve achieved so much with this project in spite of that. Our team of volunteers and all the creatives involved in the project deserve a better 2026.
👇
Do me a favour and nominate @transhistoryweek.com - it’s been a challenging year and we’ve achieved so much with this project in spite of that. Our team of volunteers and all the creatives involved in the project deserve a better 2026.
👇
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December 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The DIVA Awards 2026 public nominations are now open.
Do me a favour and nominate @transhistoryweek.com - it’s been a challenging year and we’ve achieved so much with this project in spite of that. Our team of volunteers and all the creatives involved in the project deserve a better 2026.
👇
Do me a favour and nominate @transhistoryweek.com - it’s been a challenging year and we’ve achieved so much with this project in spite of that. Our team of volunteers and all the creatives involved in the project deserve a better 2026.
👇
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Nisreen and Gegê’s collab from earlier this year is one such example of how well these pairings work 🤓
www.wearequeeraf.com/the-story-of...
www.wearequeeraf.com/the-story-of...
The story of the Khawalat urges us to rethink how we preserve Trans+ histories
Their erasure wasn’t just historical; it was archival - and that's why we must preserve our stories, because only we can do it justice
www.wearequeeraf.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Nisreen and Gegê’s collab from earlier this year is one such example of how well these pairings work 🤓
www.wearequeeraf.com/the-story-of...
www.wearequeeraf.com/the-story-of...
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On Sunday I completed the matching of artists to writers for the Trans+ History Week features that will be released in May next year with QueerAF.
This is the third year of doing this and each time it is one of the most exciting moments of the project.
This is the third year of doing this and each time it is one of the most exciting moments of the project.
December 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
On Sunday I completed the matching of artists to writers for the Trans+ History Week features that will be released in May next year with QueerAF.
This is the third year of doing this and each time it is one of the most exciting moments of the project.
This is the third year of doing this and each time it is one of the most exciting moments of the project.
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🎅 Trans Secret Santa is coming to town… again!
@transsolidarity.bsky.social are delivering a whopping 896 presents to Trans+ youth all over the UK, who may otherwise feel isolated during this time of year 🧵
@transsolidarity.bsky.social are delivering a whopping 896 presents to Trans+ youth all over the UK, who may otherwise feel isolated during this time of year 🧵
December 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🎅 Trans Secret Santa is coming to town… again!
@transsolidarity.bsky.social are delivering a whopping 896 presents to Trans+ youth all over the UK, who may otherwise feel isolated during this time of year 🧵
@transsolidarity.bsky.social are delivering a whopping 896 presents to Trans+ youth all over the UK, who may otherwise feel isolated during this time of year 🧵
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We have always been here.
🗓️ Mark your calendars for Trans+ History Week 2026
04–10 May
Get the history lesson you never had, find our what’s in store, early-bird ticket alerts and a history article every day of Trans+ History Week with @wearequeeraf.com
Sign up www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistory...
04–10 May
Get the history lesson you never had, find our what’s in store, early-bird ticket alerts and a history article every day of Trans+ History Week with @wearequeeraf.com
Sign up www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistory...
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We have always been here.
You know what to do
🗓️ Mark your calendars for Trans+ History Week 2026
04–10 May
Get the history lesson you never had, find our what’s in store, early-bird ticket alerts and a history article every day of Trans+ History Week with @wearequeeraf.com
Sign up www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistory...
04–10 May
Get the history lesson you never had, find our what’s in store, early-bird ticket alerts and a history article every day of Trans+ History Week with @wearequeeraf.com
Sign up www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistory...
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
You know what to do
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Oh and if you’d like to become our second regular direct debit donor for @transhistoryweek.com to keep us going and make today a little brighter for one trans girlie (me) then I wouldn’t hate it.
www.transhistoryweek.com/donate
www.transhistoryweek.com/donate
Donate — Trans+ History Week
www.transhistoryweek.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Oh and if you’d like to become our second regular direct debit donor for @transhistoryweek.com to keep us going and make today a little brighter for one trans girlie (me) then I wouldn’t hate it.
www.transhistoryweek.com/donate
www.transhistoryweek.com/donate
So proud of what we’ve achieved here together with @wearequeeraf.com.
We have an award-winning podcast AND award-winning alumni creative talent!
👏 👏 👏
We already knew this lot did a fantastic job but it’s nice to have the world catch on too. 😎🙌
We have an award-winning podcast AND award-winning alumni creative talent!
👏 👏 👏
We already knew this lot did a fantastic job but it’s nice to have the world catch on too. 😎🙌
When we invest in Trans+ creatives, we get award-winning storytelling 🏳️⚧️
🤩 Six of our Trans+ producers won gold at @weareaudiouk.bsky.social’s Audio Production Awards for the @wearequeeraf.com podcast with @transhistoryweek.com 🧵
🤩 Six of our Trans+ producers won gold at @weareaudiouk.bsky.social’s Audio Production Awards for the @wearequeeraf.com podcast with @transhistoryweek.com 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
So proud of what we’ve achieved here together with @wearequeeraf.com.
We have an award-winning podcast AND award-winning alumni creative talent!
👏 👏 👏
We already knew this lot did a fantastic job but it’s nice to have the world catch on too. 😎🙌
We have an award-winning podcast AND award-winning alumni creative talent!
👏 👏 👏
We already knew this lot did a fantastic job but it’s nice to have the world catch on too. 😎🙌
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We sometimes talk about 'hard-to-reach' communities in the media, but 450 Trans+ people applied for the 20 opportunities in this campaign - not so hard after all eh?
I'm incredibly proud of all of the @WeAreQueerAF.com podcast producers and the whole team behind @TransHistoryWeek.com 👏👏
I'm incredibly proud of all of the @WeAreQueerAF.com podcast producers and the whole team behind @TransHistoryWeek.com 👏👏
When we invest in Trans+ creatives, we get award-winning storytelling 🏳️⚧️
🤩 Six of our Trans+ producers won gold at @weareaudiouk.bsky.social’s Audio Production Awards for the @wearequeeraf.com podcast with @transhistoryweek.com 🧵
🤩 Six of our Trans+ producers won gold at @weareaudiouk.bsky.social’s Audio Production Awards for the @wearequeeraf.com podcast with @transhistoryweek.com 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We sometimes talk about 'hard-to-reach' communities in the media, but 450 Trans+ people applied for the 20 opportunities in this campaign - not so hard after all eh?
I'm incredibly proud of all of the @WeAreQueerAF.com podcast producers and the whole team behind @TransHistoryWeek.com 👏👏
I'm incredibly proud of all of the @WeAreQueerAF.com podcast producers and the whole team behind @TransHistoryWeek.com 👏👏
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BIG NEWS: Intersex Rights
Putting Intersex people's voices at the centre of legislation that is about them, and protect Intersex children from unnecessary medical procedures
The Bill will restrict deferrable medical treatments until the person can make the decision themselves
Putting Intersex people's voices at the centre of legislation that is about them, and protect Intersex children from unnecessary medical procedures
The Bill will restrict deferrable medical treatments until the person can make the decision themselves
Victoria to protect intersex children from unnecessary medical procedures
QNews LGBTIQA+ News
qnews.com.au
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 AM
BIG NEWS: Intersex Rights
Putting Intersex people's voices at the centre of legislation that is about them, and protect Intersex children from unnecessary medical procedures
The Bill will restrict deferrable medical treatments until the person can make the decision themselves
Putting Intersex people's voices at the centre of legislation that is about them, and protect Intersex children from unnecessary medical procedures
The Bill will restrict deferrable medical treatments until the person can make the decision themselves