Jess
Queer historian of Atlantic Canada. PhD Candidate at York (thx SSHRC). She/her. SOGIESC educator and queer & trans+ activist. Chronic overcommitter and dissertation procrastinator.
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living in Kjipuktuk (HFX) & from Epekwitk (PEI)
- I would gladly join any other robed technophobes looking to stand up against AI in the humanities
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- One striking quotation from the article shared here about how anti trans rhetoric is never in good faith "Because the goal was never to improve care or protect children — it was to eliminate transgender people from public life entirely."
- Read about some amazing pei trans history here!
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- Amazing panel on trans histories at CHA this year. Great work from @jameyj.bsky.social, Renée Szematowicz, Elio Colavito, and @ainopihlak.bsky.social !
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- Do you know anybody working as a scholar, researcher, archivist, activist, or artist who might want to write about Atlantic Canada queer history? If so, send them my way! #NS #PEI #NL #NB #queerhistory #canadaqueerhistory #AtlanticCanada
- Next article of the series out now! This convo with Sarah was so fun and I can't wait to see what they'll do next Read about some cool Atlantic Canada queer history here and in the previous posts
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- If you missed the CBC interview earlier you can hear it here! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
- Someone asked me how it's possible to study queer history because "isn't it mostly based on rumours?" Boy did I have some rough news to break about studying history in general
- Meredith J Batt and I will be on CBC Halifax at 440 today! Tune in to hear more about the Queering Atlantic Canada series
- The reason the archives are so cold isn't to preserve the records. It's actually because if historians were allowed to be warm while researching they would never leave and their articles would never be finished. (Jokes, because obviously we historians aren't finishing their articles anyway)
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- Not sure how to contact your MLA? Find your representative here and then email or call nslegislature.ca/members/prof... #nspoli
- Houston's government in NS is trying to pass a bill that will seriously threaten our democracy and move us closer to authoritarianism. If you're terrified at what's happening in the US, this is the time to act. Fascism doesn't happen overnight, it's a slow erosion. Contact your MLA.
- Watching my SO's soccer game and she just made the most killer save. All the other soccer husbands watching their wives are jealous 😌
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- Second post of the series!
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- Reposted by JessKeith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth
- Still looking for contributors for this series! Reach out if you (or anyone you know) might want to write on the heritage, histories, and/or archives of queer Atlantic Canada
- In today's post, @oncewilting.bsky.social introduces the series, Queering Atlantic Canada, she will edit this year.
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- Reposted by JessThe Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
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- Thanks so much to @activehist.bsky.social for the opportunity to guest edit this new series on queer history in Atlantic Canada! Keep an eye out for some amazing stories over the next year. activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...
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- Reposted by Jess🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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- Awesome Canadian #queerhistory podcast to check out Created by Tom Hooper, Scott MacDougall, Christine Sismondo, and Brent Bodrug, the series takes an imaginative approach to "the closet" in post-war Toronto mother-goose.simplecast.com
- Skated on Lake Banook today with my girlfriend and couldn't stop thinking about this horse race that was held there in 1959 We should step up our ice entertainment. Also look at the cars on the lake!!! Reference: Nova Scotia Information Service Nova Scotia Archives number 12457
- Reposted by JessStarter pack for Queer & Trans History (modern & contemporary)! This is a very incomplete work in progress - suggested additions welcome :) go.bsky.app/DF3FYChat://did:plc:vcynltzmbyjg6wdxvtn4cs3a/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lam6uptzpf2g
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