Harriet Palfreyman
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Harriet Palfreyman
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Lecturer in Science and Health Communication at the University of Manchester. Visual cultures, surgery, sci fi and sickness. Lapsed historian.
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Academic historians rarely speak up like this but have made an exception in speaking in support of trans people in the UK and against the current trans exclusionary situation over there.

Not just a few historians but hundreds signed this.

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
August 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
tinyurl.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Still a while to go, but I look forward to it already: In March we will be hosting Mike Sappol for a talk on Queer Anatomies, jointly with the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2024/1...
CSSC and CHSTM Joint Research Seminar: 4 March 2025
Dr Mike Sappol, Uppsala University Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and perverse desire in the anatomical image; or The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
November 29, 2024 at 11:13 AM