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
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
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 👇🏼
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.
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....
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
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 ✈️
& very grateful to have received feedback on a chapter I am writing. It seeks to reread (or maybe unqueer) the history of Indigenous "sexuality" as instead one of trans womanhood, made legible by respecting cultural logics of transformation that allow boys to become women, sometimes unremarkably ❤️
May 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
& very grateful to have received feedback on a chapter I am writing. It seeks to reread (or maybe unqueer) the history of Indigenous "sexuality" as instead one of trans womanhood, made legible by respecting cultural logics of transformation that allow boys to become women, sometimes unremarkably ❤️
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
This talk was but an abridged version of two new forthcoming chapters! So, if you missed it, you should be able to read what I had to say in long-form text later this year or next :)
May 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This talk was but an abridged version of two new forthcoming chapters! So, if you missed it, you should be able to read what I had to say in long-form text later this year or next :)
A belated thank you to @hflgbtq.bsky.social, @maayana.bsky.social, & all who joined my Oxford lecture Friday! The interest & investment from attendees was so very humbling.
In lieu of a full recording (we forgot lol), I've made my script & slides available at the link below 💗
bit.ly/4kplAdI
In lieu of a full recording (we forgot lol), I've made my script & slides available at the link below 💗
bit.ly/4kplAdI
May 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A belated thank you to @hflgbtq.bsky.social, @maayana.bsky.social, & all who joined my Oxford lecture Friday! The interest & investment from attendees was so very humbling.
In lieu of a full recording (we forgot lol), I've made my script & slides available at the link below 💗
bit.ly/4kplAdI
In lieu of a full recording (we forgot lol), I've made my script & slides available at the link below 💗
bit.ly/4kplAdI
Started off my month in the UK at the National Archives in Kew (dorky ID photo to prove it)
Special thanks to the @thenacbs.bsky.social Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship, which will allow me to attend three conferences, visit two archives, and offer a visiting lecture & workshop just this month! 🙏
Special thanks to the @thenacbs.bsky.social Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship, which will allow me to attend three conferences, visit two archives, and offer a visiting lecture & workshop just this month! 🙏
May 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Started off my month in the UK at the National Archives in Kew (dorky ID photo to prove it)
Special thanks to the @thenacbs.bsky.social Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship, which will allow me to attend three conferences, visit two archives, and offer a visiting lecture & workshop just this month! 🙏
Special thanks to the @thenacbs.bsky.social Diversity & Inclusion Fellowship, which will allow me to attend three conferences, visit two archives, and offer a visiting lecture & workshop just this month! 🙏
Had such a lovely time connecting with colleagues at the BC Studies conference this past weekend! And such a treat to finally meet and chat with two of my favorite herstorians, @adeleperry.bsky.social & Wendy Wickwire 😊
May 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Had such a lovely time connecting with colleagues at the BC Studies conference this past weekend! And such a treat to finally meet and chat with two of my favorite herstorians, @adeleperry.bsky.social & Wendy Wickwire 😊
Excited to attend BC Studies 2025 in xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam territory this weekend!
Will be presenting abridged versions of my four dissertation chapters, which micro-historically trace the lives of Indigenous people who transformed gender in the first century of colonial "contact" (~1790-1895) 🖤
Will be presenting abridged versions of my four dissertation chapters, which micro-historically trace the lives of Indigenous people who transformed gender in the first century of colonial "contact" (~1790-1895) 🖤
April 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Excited to attend BC Studies 2025 in xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam territory this weekend!
Will be presenting abridged versions of my four dissertation chapters, which micro-historically trace the lives of Indigenous people who transformed gender in the first century of colonial "contact" (~1790-1895) 🖤
Will be presenting abridged versions of my four dissertation chapters, which micro-historically trace the lives of Indigenous people who transformed gender in the first century of colonial "contact" (~1790-1895) 🖤
So lovely to be in community at the @uvic.ca Moving Trans History Forward conference this weekend 💗
What a gift it is to be among the first generation of trans women who get to build History careers together, not in isolation or in the closet 🏳️⚧️ (11 of us & counting!)
#transhistory #TDOV2025
What a gift it is to be among the first generation of trans women who get to build History careers together, not in isolation or in the closet 🏳️⚧️ (11 of us & counting!)
#transhistory #TDOV2025
April 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
So lovely to be in community at the @uvic.ca Moving Trans History Forward conference this weekend 💗
What a gift it is to be among the first generation of trans women who get to build History careers together, not in isolation or in the closet 🏳️⚧️ (11 of us & counting!)
#transhistory #TDOV2025
What a gift it is to be among the first generation of trans women who get to build History careers together, not in isolation or in the closet 🏳️⚧️ (11 of us & counting!)
#transhistory #TDOV2025
I am mostly offline these days, but wanted to share the ray of sunshine that is my new Research Assistant, Sunny ☀️ In between naps, he loves helping me find trans women in the archive (second picture). You can catch him in my dissertation acknowledgments already 🫶
March 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I am mostly offline these days, but wanted to share the ray of sunshine that is my new Research Assistant, Sunny ☀️ In between naps, he loves helping me find trans women in the archive (second picture). You can catch him in my dissertation acknowledgments already 🫶
~ the purse of Jennifer Laude, a trans Filipina who was murdered by a US marine in 2014. Contents include her black eyeliner, peachy pink lipstick, materials for sex work, & a letter from her sister that expresses how much she was loved and admired by her family and community ❤️
December 14, 2024 at 6:18 PM
~ the purse of Jennifer Laude, a trans Filipina who was murdered by a US marine in 2014. Contents include her black eyeliner, peachy pink lipstick, materials for sex work, & a letter from her sister that expresses how much she was loved and admired by her family and community ❤️
& two final highlights 💗
~ "The Corner," a time capsule of BIPOC trans sex workers from 1980s Toronto, including condoms, cigarette boxes, and graffiti that showed how they claimed their space. Inspired by the writing and words of Monica Forrester and Syrus Marcus Ware 🧱
~ "The Corner," a time capsule of BIPOC trans sex workers from 1980s Toronto, including condoms, cigarette boxes, and graffiti that showed how they claimed their space. Inspired by the writing and words of Monica Forrester and Syrus Marcus Ware 🧱
December 14, 2024 at 6:18 PM
& two final highlights 💗
~ "The Corner," a time capsule of BIPOC trans sex workers from 1980s Toronto, including condoms, cigarette boxes, and graffiti that showed how they claimed their space. Inspired by the writing and words of Monica Forrester and Syrus Marcus Ware 🧱
~ "The Corner," a time capsule of BIPOC trans sex workers from 1980s Toronto, including condoms, cigarette boxes, and graffiti that showed how they claimed their space. Inspired by the writing and words of Monica Forrester and Syrus Marcus Ware 🧱
from 1990s transgender counter-cultures ✴️
~ hand-made "frankenstein" album sleeve for (speculative) trans goth band THE FLAMING CREATURES (1991)
~ a radical trans zine called PUTREFACTION, made up of students' own poems and art, mixed w/ the writings of Sylvia Rivera, Wendy Carlos, etc. (1999)
~ hand-made "frankenstein" album sleeve for (speculative) trans goth band THE FLAMING CREATURES (1991)
~ a radical trans zine called PUTREFACTION, made up of students' own poems and art, mixed w/ the writings of Sylvia Rivera, Wendy Carlos, etc. (1999)
December 14, 2024 at 6:18 PM
from 1990s transgender counter-cultures ✴️
~ hand-made "frankenstein" album sleeve for (speculative) trans goth band THE FLAMING CREATURES (1991)
~ a radical trans zine called PUTREFACTION, made up of students' own poems and art, mixed w/ the writings of Sylvia Rivera, Wendy Carlos, etc. (1999)
~ hand-made "frankenstein" album sleeve for (speculative) trans goth band THE FLAMING CREATURES (1991)
~ a radical trans zine called PUTREFACTION, made up of students' own poems and art, mixed w/ the writings of Sylvia Rivera, Wendy Carlos, etc. (1999)
from late-20th-C FtM communities ✍️
~ Lou Sullivan's drafts of FTMI brochures (1984)
~ lost letters to the editors of "Adam's World" (1989-91)
~ ephemera from Robert Eads' final years, including a brochure and button from the 1998 Southern Comfort Conference (1997-99)
~ Lou Sullivan's drafts of FTMI brochures (1984)
~ lost letters to the editors of "Adam's World" (1989-91)
~ ephemera from Robert Eads' final years, including a brochure and button from the 1998 Southern Comfort Conference (1997-99)
December 14, 2024 at 6:18 PM
from late-20th-C FtM communities ✍️
~ Lou Sullivan's drafts of FTMI brochures (1984)
~ lost letters to the editors of "Adam's World" (1989-91)
~ ephemera from Robert Eads' final years, including a brochure and button from the 1998 Southern Comfort Conference (1997-99)
~ Lou Sullivan's drafts of FTMI brochures (1984)
~ lost letters to the editors of "Adam's World" (1989-91)
~ ephemera from Robert Eads' final years, including a brochure and button from the 1998 Southern Comfort Conference (1997-99)
from 20th-C drag herstory 💄
~ objects thrown at police during the Compton's Cafeteria Riot (1966)
~ the glamorous doll of Māori transsexual drag queen Carmen Rupe (1985)
~ ephemera from Diva's bar, a once-popular trans nightlife venue in San Francisco that closed in 2019 (1990s)
~ objects thrown at police during the Compton's Cafeteria Riot (1966)
~ the glamorous doll of Māori transsexual drag queen Carmen Rupe (1985)
~ ephemera from Diva's bar, a once-popular trans nightlife venue in San Francisco that closed in 2019 (1990s)
December 14, 2024 at 6:18 PM
from 20th-C drag herstory 💄
~ objects thrown at police during the Compton's Cafeteria Riot (1966)
~ the glamorous doll of Māori transsexual drag queen Carmen Rupe (1985)
~ ephemera from Diva's bar, a once-popular trans nightlife venue in San Francisco that closed in 2019 (1990s)
~ objects thrown at police during the Compton's Cafeteria Riot (1966)
~ the glamorous doll of Māori transsexual drag queen Carmen Rupe (1985)
~ ephemera from Diva's bar, a once-popular trans nightlife venue in San Francisco that closed in 2019 (1990s)
from Weimar & Nazi Germany
~ a canvas painting of the Eldorado (1920s) 🪩
~ trans woman Dora Richter's evening purse & transvestite certificate (1922)
~ charred pages from the Nazi book burning at the Hirschfeld Institute (1933)🔥
~ belongings recovered from trans woman R's garbage bin (1936)
~ a canvas painting of the Eldorado (1920s) 🪩
~ trans woman Dora Richter's evening purse & transvestite certificate (1922)
~ charred pages from the Nazi book burning at the Hirschfeld Institute (1933)🔥
~ belongings recovered from trans woman R's garbage bin (1936)
December 14, 2024 at 6:18 PM
from Weimar & Nazi Germany
~ a canvas painting of the Eldorado (1920s) 🪩
~ trans woman Dora Richter's evening purse & transvestite certificate (1922)
~ charred pages from the Nazi book burning at the Hirschfeld Institute (1933)🔥
~ belongings recovered from trans woman R's garbage bin (1936)
~ a canvas painting of the Eldorado (1920s) 🪩
~ trans woman Dora Richter's evening purse & transvestite certificate (1922)
~ charred pages from the Nazi book burning at the Hirschfeld Institute (1933)🔥
~ belongings recovered from trans woman R's garbage bin (1936)
from the "female husbands" archive 👫
~ James How's wedding ring, halfpenny, & White Horse Tavern sign (1732-45)
~ Charles Hamilton's vial of quicksilver & wooden di!do! (1740s)
~ an unknown "female sailor's" uniform & chest binding (1860)
~ Harry Allen's lost letter to wife Isabelle (1912)
~ James How's wedding ring, halfpenny, & White Horse Tavern sign (1732-45)
~ Charles Hamilton's vial of quicksilver & wooden di!do! (1740s)
~ an unknown "female sailor's" uniform & chest binding (1860)
~ Harry Allen's lost letter to wife Isabelle (1912)
December 14, 2024 at 6:18 PM
from the "female husbands" archive 👫
~ James How's wedding ring, halfpenny, & White Horse Tavern sign (1732-45)
~ Charles Hamilton's vial of quicksilver & wooden di!do! (1740s)
~ an unknown "female sailor's" uniform & chest binding (1860)
~ Harry Allen's lost letter to wife Isabelle (1912)
~ James How's wedding ring, halfpenny, & White Horse Tavern sign (1732-45)
~ Charles Hamilton's vial of quicksilver & wooden di!do! (1740s)
~ an unknown "female sailor's" uniform & chest binding (1860)
~ Harry Allen's lost letter to wife Isabelle (1912)