@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
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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
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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
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"!
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
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doi.org/10.1177/1363...
#histsex #transhistory #queerhistory
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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
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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
I love to start 2025 off with some herstory at #AHA2025 ! I spoke on how the preponderance of white, middleclass crossdressers affectively & materially structured the influence of homophobic, racist, & whorephobic discourses in certain 20thC trans femme Western subcultures @historians.org
January 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I love to start 2025 off with some herstory at #AHA2025 ! I spoke on how the preponderance of white, middleclass crossdressers affectively & materially structured the influence of homophobic, racist, & whorephobic discourses in certain 20thC trans femme Western subcultures @historians.org
It is always a great day when I get to gush about trans feminine history! I'm very excited to speak on this panel, hope to see the room packed for this crucial conversation on October 2nd
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September 18, 2023 at 6:38 PM
It is always a great day when I get to gush about trans feminine history! I'm very excited to speak on this panel, hope to see the room packed for this crucial conversation on October 2nd
buff.ly/3Rpnsb9
buff.ly/3Rpnsb9