gabby iaconetti
@gabbyiac.bsky.social
History PhD candidate @ Concordia University: bisexual history, oral history & queer archives | vegan | archivist | #BwiththeT 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ she/they
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gabby iaconetti
@gabbyiac.bsky.social
· Jan 26
Early Iterations of Bisexual Activism in Toronto, Ontario: A Historical Examination of Bykes and the Ontario Bisexual Network
This article seeks to illuminate the activities of historical bisexual community groups in Toronto in the late twentieth century, a peak era of bisexual activism in Ontario. The city’s first bisexu...
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Re-pinning this to my profile: my first peer-reviewer article out in the Journal of Bisexuality 🩷💜💙 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I fear that the look I accidentally stumbled into today is “Judd Nelson in the Breakfast Club”
October 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I fear that the look I accidentally stumbled into today is “Judd Nelson in the Breakfast Club”
Can we consider “Fallen Leaves” by Billy Talent an autumn song orrrrrrr…
September 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Can we consider “Fallen Leaves” by Billy Talent an autumn song orrrrrrr…
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1/ Today is Bisexual Visibility Day, observed annually on September 23. Days of significance like today are important because people in the bisexual community continue to face stigmatization, discrimination, negative stereotypes, and bi-erasure.
September 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
1/ Today is Bisexual Visibility Day, observed annually on September 23. Days of significance like today are important because people in the bisexual community continue to face stigmatization, discrimination, negative stereotypes, and bi-erasure.
HAPPY BISEXUAL+ VISIBILITY DAY
September 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
HAPPY BISEXUAL+ VISIBILITY DAY
LOUDER!!!!!!!!
Anyone can include trans and nonbinary people in their dating pool, and anyone can exclude them.
That bisexual people are uniquely asked to prove, defend or assert that they don't exclude cisn't people in their attractions is Gold Star Biphobia.
That bisexual people are uniquely asked to prove, defend or assert that they don't exclude cisn't people in their attractions is Gold Star Biphobia.
September 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
LOUDER!!!!!!!!
I finally responded to that email that’s been sitting and lurking in my inbox for almost a month…everyone clap
September 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I finally responded to that email that’s been sitting and lurking in my inbox for almost a month…everyone clap
The weather is starting to feel like it’s almost time to reactivate my Shudder subscription
September 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The weather is starting to feel like it’s almost time to reactivate my Shudder subscription
The new academic year is looming so…I’m back here hello
August 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The new academic year is looming so…I’m back here hello
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No, we don't have to accept it. We can and should resist AI, especially those of us in education. It is eroding the very principles we're meant to teach.
AI is a tool.
AI isn't going away and is being used in the creative industry, business, government (like it or not), so digging our heels in will only slow it down, it's not going to stop it.
We need to - collectively - learn how (and when) to use it to maximum effect, without encouraging overuse.
AI isn't going away and is being used in the creative industry, business, government (like it or not), so digging our heels in will only slow it down, it's not going to stop it.
We need to - collectively - learn how (and when) to use it to maximum effect, without encouraging overuse.
This is a fantastic conversation on exactly what the risks and pitfalls are "AI" in teaching, with Jessica Grose and Tressie Cottom.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
August 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
No, we don't have to accept it. We can and should resist AI, especially those of us in education. It is eroding the very principles we're meant to teach.
This morning I successfully defended my comprehensive exams and am now a PhD candidate!!! It feels incredible and surreal to have reached this milestone :’)
June 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This morning I successfully defended my comprehensive exams and am now a PhD candidate!!! It feels incredible and surreal to have reached this milestone :’)
I was finally able to bust out this cap today that I got during a white elephant game - HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️🌈
June 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I was finally able to bust out this cap today that I got during a white elephant game - HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️🌈
Almost at the end of my written comps journey…one exam to go…send good motivational energy my way 🥲
May 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Almost at the end of my written comps journey…one exam to go…send good motivational energy my way 🥲
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Brilliant! More than 500 historians have now signed, and I can only hope that @teamlabouruk.bsky.social, @primeministeruk.bsky.social and all MPs listen and learn the lessons from history. It's not too late to act in support of trans rights. “The mistakes of the past need not be repeated."
Historians for Trans Rights open letter makes it into @pinknews.bsky.social!
I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the essential contributions of @benmechen.bsky.social @krheyam.bsky.social @carolinepennock.bsky.social and @echomikeromeo.bsky.social in drafting it
www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/02/h...
I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the essential contributions of @benmechen.bsky.social @krheyam.bsky.social @carolinepennock.bsky.social and @echomikeromeo.bsky.social in drafting it
www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/02/h...
Warning from historians over government's treatment of trans people
Over 350 historians and academics have urged the government to turn back on its growing attacks on trans rights in the UK.
www.thepinknews.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Brilliant! More than 500 historians have now signed, and I can only hope that @teamlabouruk.bsky.social, @primeministeruk.bsky.social and all MPs listen and learn the lessons from history. It's not too late to act in support of trans rights. “The mistakes of the past need not be repeated."
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Hey! Are you a current MA or recent grad in History, #PublicHistory, or other fields linked to immigration, looking for a paid summer internship in #OralHistory?
Work with our research team at the Canadian Museum of Immigration! (Remote work is ok too!)
pier21jobs.applytojobs.ca/research/38306
Work with our research team at the Canadian Museum of Immigration! (Remote work is ok too!)
pier21jobs.applytojobs.ca/research/38306
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Job Board - Research Intern – Full Time
Job vacancy for the role of Research Intern – Full Time
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May 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Hey! Are you a current MA or recent grad in History, #PublicHistory, or other fields linked to immigration, looking for a paid summer internship in #OralHistory?
Work with our research team at the Canadian Museum of Immigration! (Remote work is ok too!)
pier21jobs.applytojobs.ca/research/38306
Work with our research team at the Canadian Museum of Immigration! (Remote work is ok too!)
pier21jobs.applytojobs.ca/research/38306
THE TREES ARE BUDDING WE’RE SO BACK
April 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
THE TREES ARE BUDDING WE’RE SO BACK
I had my last comps reading meeting today! Less than two weeks out from starting my written exams 😶
April 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I had my last comps reading meeting today! Less than two weeks out from starting my written exams 😶
Comps reading in good (sleepy) company 🐱
April 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Comps reading in good (sleepy) company 🐱
Got to do my favourite thing again today: talk about bisexual history in a room full of absolutely lovely people - this time at my first public history conference 🥹
March 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Got to do my favourite thing again today: talk about bisexual history in a room full of absolutely lovely people - this time at my first public history conference 🥹
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Register for conference: www.eventbrite.ca/e/history-in...
Register for keynote: www.eventbrite.ca/e/history-in...
Register for keynote: www.eventbrite.ca/e/history-in...
March 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Register for conference: www.eventbrite.ca/e/history-in...
Register for keynote: www.eventbrite.ca/e/history-in...
Register for keynote: www.eventbrite.ca/e/history-in...
I know the most challenging part of my writing my comprehensive exams in ~about a month~ is gonna be sitting at my desk for days on end just writing because I can typically only write in short bursts over long periods of time 🙃
March 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I know the most challenging part of my writing my comprehensive exams in ~about a month~ is gonna be sitting at my desk for days on end just writing because I can typically only write in short bursts over long periods of time 🙃
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The 30th Annual History in the Making Graduate Conference will take place on April 4th and 5th on the Concordia SGW campus. Attendance registration form and event schedules for each day of the conference coming soon!
March 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The 30th Annual History in the Making Graduate Conference will take place on April 4th and 5th on the Concordia SGW campus. Attendance registration form and event schedules for each day of the conference coming soon!
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DO. NOT. LET. HIM. WIN.
Pierre Poilievre announces he will be joining Donald Trump and MAGA in seeking to permanently ban gender affirming care for LGBTQ+ people because like the far right in the US he offers nothing to the working class
March 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
DO. NOT. LET. HIM. WIN.
🙏🙏🙏
Strong unions are needed now more than ever. Concordia's TAs and RAs walked out on strike this week. Wishing them the very best on the line and the bargaining table.
March 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
🙏🙏🙏
Had the privilege of being on the first picket line of the first ever TA and RA strike in my university’s history - union power!
March 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Had the privilege of being on the first picket line of the first ever TA and RA strike in my university’s history - union power!
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SO much love to @venusenvyhfx.bsky.social. This repeated transphobic and queerphobic vandalism is disgusting and disturbing, and of course, dead wrong. I support this amazing queer-owned Halifax bookshop and sex gear retailer! You should too!
venusenvy.ca/blogs/news/o...
venusenvy.ca/blogs/news/o...
Ongoing Vandalism at VE Halifax
(TW for transphobia and neo-nazi references)
At the beginning of February our storefront was vandalized with transphobic graffiti scrawled in sharpie. Glitter Bean, also a queer run business, recei...
venusenvy.ca
March 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
SO much love to @venusenvyhfx.bsky.social. This repeated transphobic and queerphobic vandalism is disgusting and disturbing, and of course, dead wrong. I support this amazing queer-owned Halifax bookshop and sex gear retailer! You should too!
venusenvy.ca/blogs/news/o...
venusenvy.ca/blogs/news/o...