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Jamey Jesperson

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PhD Candidate & Canada Vanier Scholar @ U Victoria | 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans histories of Indigenous & colonial Western North America (pre-20th C) https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/people/graduate-students/profiles/jesperson-jamey.php

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Sep 26

After 3+ years of intense (& difficult) research, my first publication is out! Available early open-access at the link below.

(and very humbled to share it's been awarded the 2023 Gender & History Graduate Student Essay Prize!) ❤️

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 15h

yayyyyyy! just had a consult with her myself - so nice to finally have someone in the lower mainland :)

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 7d

This is a really important article, co-written by settler scholar Leon Laidlaw and Fallon Aubee, a Metis Two-Spirit survivor of both day schools and prison incarceration. I'm particularly blown away by the study showing that of the 99 gender-diverse incarcerated people studied, HALF are Indigenous

Trans prison policies aren’t just about gender—they are about Indigenous rights | Xtra Magazine

Trans-affirming prison policies are being revoked in parts of Canada and the U.S. We need to protect Two-Spirit and trans people in prisons

xtramagazine.com

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 20d

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 …

marcebutierrez.com

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 20d

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 👇🏼

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · 27d

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.

www.uvic.ca

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Mari Cohn @maricohn.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

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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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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Aug 1

Wanted to share this exciting new CfP for a Trans Studies special issue in @early-am-lit.bsky.social ! 📜

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Jul 31

noooooooooo! I need to know who started this lie and I need to know now 💔

Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Jul 23

yayyyyyyy!!! 😍

Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Jul 19

oh amazing!! who are you? 😂 (you can dm me)

Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Jul 19

I cannot imagine 🫶🏼 so sorry that happened to you sis

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Jul 18

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.

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

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Jul 17

I'm at SHEAR!! Lmk if you are too :)

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Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa @coastaljustice.bsky.social · Jul 14

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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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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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Jul 3

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
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Jonah I. Garde @jonahgarde.bsky.social · May 26

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.

www.transcript-verlag.de

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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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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Jun 4

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 🤓

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jun 2

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.

A tweet from the official FBI Twitter account dated June 2, 2025, reads: "Help the FBI protect children. As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of gender-affirming care. Report tips of any hospitals, clinics, or practitioners performing these surgical procedures on children at 1-800-CALL-FBI or tips.fbi.gov." The tweet has 106K views.

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Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Jun 2

thanks so much for coming!! :)

Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social · Jun 1

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 · May 27

I would sooo value that, thank you! It's the chapter we've talked about once or twice before, building off a literature review of the historiography from late 19th C to early 21st C. Once I get comments on my first revision I'll reach out :)