Jarett Henderson
jaretthenderson.bsky.social
Jarett Henderson
@jaretthenderson.bsky.social
Historian of colonial Canada living in California.
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“The instability and fragility of bisexuality as an identity category in this period means that limiting my analysis only to people who used the term for themselves would be unhelpfully restrictive.”

Martha Robinson Rhodes discusses “multiple-gender-attraction” in the latest for Broadsides #pride
“Not totally gay, I suppose”: Bisexuality and Multiple-Gender-Attraction in the Archives
“The instability and fragility of bisexuality as an identity category in this period means that limiting my analysis only to people who used the term for themselves would be unhelpfully restrictive.”
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June 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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“In 2025, when queer and trans people face a new wave of public scrutiny, legal surveillance, and violent erasure, Princess Seraphina’s story challenges the notion that queer lives were always hidden, always punished, and always alone.” 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Read more from Scott Terlouw in Broadsides' #pride series.
Princess Seraphina: Queer Visibility at the Old Bailey
"In 2025, when queer and trans people face a new wave of public scrutiny, legal surveillance, and violent erasure, Princess Seraphina’s story challenges the notion that queer lives were always hidden,...
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June 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I wrote a piece for @thenacbs.bsky.social Pride Series on Queer Eschatology in William Burges’s designs at Cardiff Castle!
June 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
"At a time when visibility could carry profound risk, Seraphina’s presence in both courtroom and community shows that queer lives were legible, affirmed, and even protected." #pridemonth #lgbtqhist #queerhist
“In 2025, when queer and trans people face a new wave of public scrutiny, legal surveillance, and violent erasure, Princess Seraphina’s story challenges the notion that queer lives were always hidden, always punished, and always alone.” 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Read more from Scott Terlouw in Broadsides' #pride series.
Princess Seraphina: Queer Visibility at the Old Bailey
"In 2025, when queer and trans people face a new wave of public scrutiny, legal surveillance, and violent erasure, Princess Seraphina’s story challenges the notion that queer lives were always hidden,...
www.nacbs.org
June 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“Reconsidering the Lady Squatters within a truth-telling framework allows a deeper understanding to emerge: one that recognises the curious intersection of the economic, the imperial, and the queer.”

#pride #queerhist #lgbtqhist
Next in our #pride series, Jacobin Bosman situates the lives of Anne Drysdale & Caroline Newcomb “within ongoing Indigenous truth-telling efforts and asks how queer historical recovery must also reckon with complicity and settler capitalism.” #LGBTQ+History #pridemonth
Pride and Its Paradoxes: Settler Queer History and Indigenous Calls for Truth-Telling
"The way forward, then, can only be through an honesty that challenges us to look back and tell a more robust and complicated truth."
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June 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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for the month 🏳️‍🌈 that’s in it… a blog about archives and queer history; or, why I had to go to suburban Illinois to learn more about the life of a gay fella from east Belfast…
“It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life.”

Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.
Urnings, in Ireland and Illinois
"It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life."
www.nacbs.org
June 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Be sure to follow the NACBS Broadsides series this month, starting with @jaretthenderson.bsky.social on the importance of queer and trans histories in an urgent present: www.nacbs.org/post/queer-a... #Pride #LGBTQHistory
Queer and Trans Histories in an Urgent Present
"The essays in this series, then, are shaped by, and respond to, this broader political moment in which queer and trans lives are under increasing threat both rhetorically and institutionally."
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June 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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The excellent @jaretthenderson.bsky.social on the urgency of queer and trans histories in the here and now: www.nacbs.org/post/queer-a...
Jarett Henderson (@jaretthenderson.bsky.social)
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June 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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🏳️‍🌈Our #PrideMonth series starts today!🏳️‍⚧️

@jaretthenderson.bsky.social introduces a series of essays that “underscore the pressing need to engage with LGBTQ+ history, not just as an academic exercise, but as a crucial act of remembrance and resistance.”

Read it here: www.nacbs.org/post/queer-a...
Queer and Trans Histories in an Urgent Present
"The essays in this series, then, are shaped by, and respond to, this broader political moment in which queer and trans lives are under increasing threat both rhetorically and institutionally."
www.nacbs.org
June 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Happy Pride! Later this week @jaretthenderson.bsky.social kicks off a Broadsides series celebrating the rich & striking diversity of approaches to queer history in 2025.

In the meantime, take a moment to revisit his '23 piece on infamous crime clauses.

Stayed tuned for more! #pride #pridemonth
A Wave of “Infamous Crime” Clause Making?
Between the 1820s and 1850s, “infamous crime” clauses functioned as tools of straight settler state-building across British North America.
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June 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Please consider submitting a chapter abstract for our edited collection, Queering the Tensions of Empire.

Abstracts due: 31 May 2025.

Deets here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire | H-Net
Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire (edited collection)Beginning in the late 20th century, scholars influenced by postcolonial and feminist theory and social and cultural history began to...
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April 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Please consider submitting a chapter abstract for our edited collection, Queering the Tensions of Empire.

Abstracts due: 31 May 2025.

Deets here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire | H-Net
Call for Papers: Queering the Tensions of Empire (edited collection)Beginning in the late 20th century, scholars influenced by postcolonial and feminist theory and social and cultural history began to...
networks.h-net.org
April 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM