All posts filed under: Publishing

Special Issue Release! Trans Histories by Trans Historians

October 20, 2023
by Jamey Jesperson and Chris Aino Pihlak
Academia / Oral History / Publishing / Trans History

Trans histories by trans historians are important. But with only a handful of trans history books and not a single academic journal dedicated to trans pasts, there are vast temporal, thematic, and geographical gaps in our histories. As two trans feminine graduate students in history at the University of Victoria, we set out to change that. In the summer of 2021, we took up editorship of our department’s peer-reviewed, graduate-student journal, The Graduate History Review, […]

Call for Applications: Digital Exhibit Designer

July 25, 2021
by Andy Huynh
Archiving Oral History / Collaboratory News / Community-based Oral History / Gay History / Opportunities / Oral History / Public Humanities / Publishing / Trans History

This full-time three-month position, starting in mid-September 2021, is funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant supporting the LGBTQ Oral History Collaboratory. HOW TO APPLY? Visit the Chair in Transgender Studies website and review the full posting. Send your updated resume and cover letter to transchair@uvic.caPosting Closes August 23, 2021

Reading gendertrash

May 11, 2017
by Elspeth Brown
Mirha-Soleil Ross Project / Publishing / Trans History

I spent a lot of my first week at the CLGA looking through and digitizing materials related to Mirha-Soleil Ross’ and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay’s zine gendertrash from hell, published from 1993-1995. One of my favourite images I have come across was a drawing of four femme figures holding hands on a yellowing piece of paper. Below the figures, drawn in purple pen, text reads “TRANSSEXUAL SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL!!!” This image is published in black and […]

Publishing and Queer/Trans Public Praxis

October 23, 2016
by Elspeth Brown
Publishing

As historians such as myself move from more traditional forms of scholarly work to a form of ongoing digital “making” that is the work of the Collaboratory, how do we make this work professionally legible? I have the great fortune to be tenured, so for me the stakes are not quite as high as they are for my more junior colleagues, where digital humanities and community-engaged research and scholarship remain, sadly, invisible and unvalued in […]