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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · 6d

Hey tricks and treats!

Join us on October 15th from 12:10-2 pm EST in-person or over Zoom for Whorestory Volume Two: Mind the Gap(s)! Scan the QR to reserve your in-person or Zoom ticket!

#sexwork #whorestory #herstory #sexworkiswork

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 13d

LGBTQ2S+ archives like @arquives.ca, @ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social, @invisiblehistories.bsky.social and @leatherarchives.bsky.social preserve our past. They can also drive our future, writes @ainopihlak.bsky.social.

Among the archives, you can find love, community and history | Xtra Magazine

Queer and trans archives preserve our past—they also offer community space that is essential to our future

xtramagazine.com

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · 24d

You can’t keep a good hooker down.

We’re back! I am pleased as punch to announce the first entry of Whorestory v2: "The Dressed Body: Sex-Workers’ Aesthetics and Artifices!" Register via the QR Code to join us in-person or Zoom on September 25th from 12:10- 2 pm EST
#sexwork #whorestory #herstory

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · Aug 25

NEW: With a new first-time translation from Jamie Berrout, I'm delighted to share this 2023 interview with Mariposas Negras cofounder Laura Glover, originally printed in the zine Trans y Fugas.

Mariposas Negras is a transfemme sex worker collective on the front lines of Mexican trans activism 🇲🇽

Trans y Fugas, “Trans Archive and Trans Memory”

Jamie Berrout brings us a new partial translation of Mexican periodical Trans y Fugas, published by transfeminine sex worker collective Mariposas Negras and founder/editor Laura Glover.

thetransfemininereview.com

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · Aug 20

After a wonderful summer of research at the @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social I am excited to share some of my findings! Join me on August 29th at 10 am EST in-person or over Zoom for my public lecture “Islands of Belonging: 20th-Century Trans Feminine Social Worlds and The Indiana Crossdresser Society"!

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Aug 15

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 💛

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Ellie Marney @elliemarney.bsky.social · Aug 7

Only management can revoke Gretchen Felker-Martin's account suspension, but her book came out yesterday, so you can support her in other ways!
torpublishinggroup.com/black-flame/...

cover image of BLACK FLAME by Gretchen Felker-Martin, featuring (against a black gradient background) a black-haired woman with glowing yellow eyes, crying black tears, as dirty cinematic film falls out of her mouth

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

substack.com

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · Jul 14

Plus, in the 20th-century one of the trans subcultures which most loved to taxonomize are also one of the least examined by contemporary queer scholars: heterosexual transvestites! If this caught your attention, please read further in this open-access article below:

doi.org/10.1177/1363...

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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · Jul 14

In it, we historicize the claim us queer folks are in the midst of a supposed ‘taxonomic renaissance.’ It turns out, we have always loved to create hierarchies and systems of classification! 2/3

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · Jul 14

New Publication Day! After years of research and discussion with the ever-brilliant Emily Cousens, #Sexualities has just published our open-access article “1970s Transvestite Taxonomies and the New Queer Frontier.”

doi.org/10.1177/1363...

#histsex #transhistory #queerhistory

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · Jul 7

Interested in presenting? Check out the details in the poster, and apply now through QR Code in the poster, or this link: forms.gle/FdSUrYVR4KmB...
⏳ Submission deadline: August 3rd, 2025
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#sexwork #whorestory #herstory #Toronto #ISWD #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #CfP

WHORESTORY Volume Two: A Sex Worker Speaker Series

We're back, and better than ever! Thank you for your interest in the second volume of Whorestory! Each meeting in this Fall 2025 speaker series will be a blend of more traditional scholastic presentat...

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · Jul 7

The stories, knowledges, and histories of sex workers matter. For the second year running, I am so happy to showcase the valuable ways sex workers see, move through, and critique the world. We know bullshit when we see it. 2/3

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · Jul 7

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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

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · Jul 3

There's a major language barrier between Latin and Western trans lit, which is precisely why it's so important to take the time to uplift and share transfemme voices in publishing from the Global South.

As such, I'll be publishing Jamie's translation of an interview with MN members this summer.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · Jul 3

Hey all, super excited to announce I've had the pleasure of chatting recently with Jamie Berrout, who's been working with Mariposas Negras, a transfemme sex worker activist and art collective based out of Mexico City.

They're launching a Spanish-language publication called Trans y Fugas! 🇲🇽 👀

TERROR
TRANSY FUGAS
EXPOSICIÓN DE TRANSEXUALES ¡PLASTICIDADES
ENCARNADAS!
¡RENIEGAN DE LA BIOLOGÍA!
¡QUE ATREVIMIENTO!
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¡CATASTROFE
EN TODO EN EL MUNDO
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EL PAÍS
DEL ARTE!
EDITORA A CARGO LAURA GLOVER
DISEÑO EDITORIAL INDIRA TROCHE

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WIRED @wired.com · Jun 17

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.

www.wired.com

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · Jun 9

I am so excited to attend this wonderful event!

Dept. of Historical Studies, UTM @utm-hs.bsky.social · May 28

🛁 Queer & trans bathhouse history, joy, resistance. QTBIPOC stories of pleasure, care & legacy.
Remembering the Sugar Shack on June 10, Glad Day Bookshop (Toronto).
🆓 Free – RSVP here arquives.ca/event/rememb...
Supported by LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, @arquives.ca & Glad Day Bookshop

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ainopihlak.bsky.social @ainopihlak.bsky.social · Jun 5

Congratulations! So well deserved!

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Jonah I. Garde @jonahgarde.bsky.social · Jun 5

It's official and I am excited to step into the footprints of @smittermeier.bsky.social as a co-editor of DeGruyter's Transnational Queer Histories series together with @manwithoutatan.bsky.social 💜 www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/tqh-b...

Transnational Queer Histories

The series Transnational Queer Histories aims at encouraging queer historical studies, defined at their broadest, to forge new cross-disciplinary paths and pioneer innovative intersectional approaches...

www.degruyterbrill.com

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joyce @joycelaurie.bsky.social · May 31

The first issue of PICNIC MAG has been sent to printers. On sale soon! xo

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Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social · May 20

❗THIS THURSDAY❗

Aino Pihlak

"Putting the Femme in Feminist"

Thursday, May 22, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PDT (UTC-7)
UVic Cornett A317 & Zoom
(Registration required if joining online)

#uvic #yyj #trans

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Apr 22

Ecstatic to be at Oxford next month!

And yes, I have a few things to say about that UK Supreme Court case which *checks notes* did not hear from a single trans woman. Maybe a few thousand years of trans herstory can speak instead 🏳️‍⚧️

#transhistory #histsex #lgbtqhistory #transstudies #transrights 💘

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Dr. Alex Ketchum (she/her) @aketchum22.bsky.social · Mar 18

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