@ainopihlak.bsky.social
Doctoral Candidate & SSHRC-funded scholar at the University of Toronto. Trans woman. Social historian of past trans feminine existences.
For inquiries: aino.pihlak@mail.utoronto.ca
https://ainopihlak.com/
For inquiries: aino.pihlak@mail.utoronto.ca
https://ainopihlak.com/
Its the end of an era! Join us exclusively in-person in Sidney Smith Hall room 2098 on November 13th from 12:10-2 pm EST for Whorestory: Balancing on Tight Ropes! Our high-flying final talk will conclude Whorestory V.2. For more information, please scan the QR code in the poster!
November 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Its the end of an era! Join us exclusively in-person in Sidney Smith Hall room 2098 on November 13th from 12:10-2 pm EST for Whorestory: Balancing on Tight Ropes! Our high-flying final talk will conclude Whorestory V.2. For more information, please scan the QR code in the poster!
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
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
October 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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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Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
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.
www.whatimreading.net
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."
She was 78.
She was 78.
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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
September 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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.
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
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
September 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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
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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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 🇲🇽
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
August 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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 🇲🇽
Mariposas Negras is a transfemme sex worker collective on the front lines of Mexican trans activism 🇲🇽
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"!
August 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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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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 💛
"TransNational TransFemininities," feat. @chanathipswn.bsky.social, @ainopihlak.bsky.social, Sam Dolores Sanchinel, & Heng Wang, tracing trans feminine lives across territories & time 💛
August 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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 💛
"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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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/...
torpublishinggroup.com/black-flame/...
August 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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/...
torpublishinggroup.com/black-flame/...
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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-...
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
July 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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-...
Why? Anti-trans alumni/donors threatened to pull support form the university...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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
1/3
doi.org/10.1177/1363...
#histsex #transhistory #queerhistory
1/3
July 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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
1/3
doi.org/10.1177/1363...
#histsex #transhistory #queerhistory
1/3
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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
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
July 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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
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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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.
As such, I'll be publishing Jamie's translation of an interview with MN members this summer.
July 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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.
As such, I'll be publishing Jamie's translation of an interview with MN members this summer.
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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! 🇲🇽 👀
They're launching a Spanish-language publication called Trans y Fugas! 🇲🇽 👀
July 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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! 🇲🇽 👀
They're launching a Spanish-language publication called Trans y Fugas! 🇲🇽 👀
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Jules Gill-Peterson isn’t mincing words: Forget euphemisms like “gender euphoria.”
“We need hormones, sex changes, and surgeries.”
Not affirmation—access.
“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
June 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Jules Gill-Peterson isn’t mincing words: Forget euphemisms like “gender euphoria.”
“We need hormones, sex changes, and surgeries.”
Not affirmation—access.
“We need hormones, sex changes, and surgeries.”
Not affirmation—access.
I am so excited to attend this wonderful event!
🛁 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
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
June 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I am so excited to attend this wonderful event!
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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
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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...
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The first issue of PICNIC MAG has been sent to printers. On sale soon! xo
May 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The first issue of PICNIC MAG has been sent to printers. On sale soon! xo
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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 💘
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 💘
April 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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 💘
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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@ashleyrguillory.bsky.social
@cedarsageskoden.bsky.social
@bluedelliquanti.bsky.social
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@dogspunk.bsky.social
@diana-molina.bsky.social
@ekalodnermar.bsky.social
@jmrezes.bsky.social
@johnbirdsall.bsky.social
@hyzkoa.bsky.social
@stackeddeckpress.bsky.social
@ashleyrguillory.bsky.social
@cedarsageskoden.bsky.social
@bluedelliquanti.bsky.social
@ainopihlak.bsky.social
@dogspunk.bsky.social
@diana-molina.bsky.social
@ekalodnermar.bsky.social
@jmrezes.bsky.social
@johnbirdsall.bsky.social
@hyzkoa.bsky.social
@stackeddeckpress.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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some of our amazing contributors:
@ashleyrguillory.bsky.social
@cedarsageskoden.bsky.social
@bluedelliquanti.bsky.social
@chrisapihlak.bsky.social
@dogspunk.bsky.social
@diana-molina.bsky.social
@ekalodnermar
@jmrezes
@johnbirdsall.bsky.social
@hyzkoa
@stackeddeckpress.bsky.social
@ashleyrguillory.bsky.social
@cedarsageskoden.bsky.social
@bluedelliquanti.bsky.social
@chrisapihlak.bsky.social
@dogspunk.bsky.social
@diana-molina.bsky.social
@ekalodnermar
@jmrezes
@johnbirdsall.bsky.social
@hyzkoa
@stackeddeckpress.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
some of our amazing contributors:
@ashleyrguillory.bsky.social
@cedarsageskoden.bsky.social
@bluedelliquanti.bsky.social
@chrisapihlak.bsky.social
@dogspunk.bsky.social
@diana-molina.bsky.social
@ekalodnermar
@jmrezes
@johnbirdsall.bsky.social
@hyzkoa
@stackeddeckpress.bsky.social
@ashleyrguillory.bsky.social
@cedarsageskoden.bsky.social
@bluedelliquanti.bsky.social
@chrisapihlak.bsky.social
@dogspunk.bsky.social
@diana-molina.bsky.social
@ekalodnermar
@jmrezes
@johnbirdsall.bsky.social
@hyzkoa
@stackeddeckpress.bsky.social
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Very excited to share this poster, which shows our amazing crew of 38 contributors to Queers at the Table (pre-order here: arsenalpulp.com/Books/Q/Quee...)
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social
@mcgillarts.bsky.social
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social
@mcgillarts.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Very excited to share this poster, which shows our amazing crew of 38 contributors to Queers at the Table (pre-order here: arsenalpulp.com/Books/Q/Quee...)
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social
@mcgillarts.bsky.social
@arsenalpulp.bsky.social
@mcgillarts.bsky.social
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In April we are publishing @vivianblaxell.bsky.social's extraordinary WORTHY OF THE EVENT. This is WORTHY of some EVENTS in its own right
Vivian will be in North America for a 16-date TOUR! She will be READING from her BOOK and CONVERSING with LUMINARIES of the TRANSGENDER INTELLIGENTSIA
details👇
Vivian will be in North America for a 16-date TOUR! She will be READING from her BOOK and CONVERSING with LUMINARIES of the TRANSGENDER INTELLIGENTSIA
details👇
WORTHY of the EVENTS — LittlePuss Press
this SPRING Vivian Blaxell is touring North America CONVERSING with the TRANSGENDER INTELLIGENTSIA and READING from her BOOK
littlepuss.net
March 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
In April we are publishing @vivianblaxell.bsky.social's extraordinary WORTHY OF THE EVENT. This is WORTHY of some EVENTS in its own right
Vivian will be in North America for a 16-date TOUR! She will be READING from her BOOK and CONVERSING with LUMINARIES of the TRANSGENDER INTELLIGENTSIA
details👇
Vivian will be in North America for a 16-date TOUR! She will be READING from her BOOK and CONVERSING with LUMINARIES of the TRANSGENDER INTELLIGENTSIA
details👇