Jamey Jesperson
@jameyj.bsky.social
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
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....
(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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And then this coming week
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
And then this coming week
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My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
Astro-TERFs - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
In the backlash against trans rights in the UK since the late 2010s,
the LGB Alliance has been implicated as a leading exponent of the new
moral panic, typified by its newspaper campaign against GRA r...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...
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Indigenous Social Science Doctoral Fellowship. For more information, visit - www.ssc.uwo.ca/graduate/awa...
October 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Indigenous Social Science Doctoral Fellowship. For more information, visit - www.ssc.uwo.ca/graduate/awa...
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Equity and Diversity Social Science Doctoral Fellowship
For more information on eligibility and the application, visit www.ssc.uwo.ca/graduate/awa...
For more information on eligibility and the application, visit www.ssc.uwo.ca/graduate/awa...
October 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Equity and Diversity Social Science Doctoral Fellowship
For more information on eligibility and the application, visit www.ssc.uwo.ca/graduate/awa...
For more information on eligibility and the application, visit www.ssc.uwo.ca/graduate/awa...
Had the loveliest of times attending my first Western History Association in Albuquerque this week! And extremely humbled to share I received the WHA Jensen-Miller Prize for best article in women's and gender history of the American West 📚🤓
#wha2025
#wha2025
October 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Had the loveliest of times attending my first Western History Association in Albuquerque this week! And extremely humbled to share I received the WHA Jensen-Miller Prize for best article in women's and gender history of the American West 📚🤓
#wha2025
#wha2025
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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
October 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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
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...
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
September 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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...
marcebutierrez.com/2025/09/12/t...
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 👇🏼
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 👇🏼
September 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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 👇🏼
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 👇🏼
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...
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
September 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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...
If anyone wants insight on UVic or the Chair (I'm a PhD here) pls reach out!
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
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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
August 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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
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 💛
Wanted to share this exciting new CfP for a Trans Studies special issue in @early-am-lit.bsky.social ! 📜
August 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Wanted to share this exciting new CfP for a Trans Studies special issue in @early-am-lit.bsky.social ! 📜
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.
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.
July 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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.
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.
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-...
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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...
www.tandfonline.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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....
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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
☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️ ☂️
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
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
doi.org/10.1525/phr....
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
doi.org/10.1525/phr....
July 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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
doi.org/10.1525/phr....
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
doi.org/10.1525/phr....
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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
May 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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...
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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.
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 🤓
@cndhistassoc.bsky.social
I will also serve as a new representative for the Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History 🤓
@cndhistassoc.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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 🤓
@cndhistassoc.bsky.social
I will also serve as a new representative for the Canadian Committee on Women's and Gender History 🤓
@cndhistassoc.bsky.social
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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.
June 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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.
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 ✈️
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 ✈️
June 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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 ✈️
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 ✈️
🏳️⚧️ TRANS ARCHIVES PSA 📣
Are you a historian of Christine Jorgensen? Did you know that she donated SIXTY boxes of personal records to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen??
(I just learned this last week & suspect it is not well known. pls share! can also connect you with local Danish historians)
Are you a historian of Christine Jorgensen? Did you know that she donated SIXTY boxes of personal records to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen??
(I just learned this last week & suspect it is not well known. pls share! can also connect you with local Danish historians)
May 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🏳️⚧️ TRANS ARCHIVES PSA 📣
Are you a historian of Christine Jorgensen? Did you know that she donated SIXTY boxes of personal records to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen??
(I just learned this last week & suspect it is not well known. pls share! can also connect you with local Danish historians)
Are you a historian of Christine Jorgensen? Did you know that she donated SIXTY boxes of personal records to the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen??
(I just learned this last week & suspect it is not well known. pls share! can also connect you with local Danish historians)
Had the gayest of times in Copenhagen last week! Reunited w/ my supervisor @rachelcleves.bsky.social, heard excellent keynotes by @julianisenia.bsky.social & more, and even met my long-lost cousin @susannebranner.bsky.social, who is the fearless leader of LGBT+ Denmark (it runs in the family!) 🏳️🌈
May 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Had the gayest of times in Copenhagen last week! Reunited w/ my supervisor @rachelcleves.bsky.social, heard excellent keynotes by @julianisenia.bsky.social & more, and even met my long-lost cousin @susannebranner.bsky.social, who is the fearless leader of LGBT+ Denmark (it runs in the family!) 🏳️🌈
I am perpetually trying to be as cool as Cheryl Morgan, for the record 😘 thank you again for coming on Friday!
Now for the Queer Pasts conference in Copenhagen! 🎉 see everyone sooooooon
Now for the Queer Pasts conference in Copenhagen! 🎉 see everyone sooooooon
May 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I am perpetually trying to be as cool as Cheryl Morgan, for the record 😘 thank you again for coming on Friday!
Now for the Queer Pasts conference in Copenhagen! 🎉 see everyone sooooooon
Now for the Queer Pasts conference in Copenhagen! 🎉 see everyone sooooooon