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Jonah I. Garde
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trans* studies & histories, archives, cultural memory, colonialism and modernity. Banting Postdoctoral Fellow @UBC 2024-26. Falls in love with every dog. they/them. t4t always.

"Trans* Geschichten der Moderne" out with transcript in 2025.
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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
Working on a lecture on trans & fascism and wish the US government and its fascist proxies would stop forcing me to rework it on a daily basis.
1. Republicans are attempting to get the FBI to label trans advocacy as domestic terrorism.

Project 2025's parent org is pushing it.

It would not label all trans people as terrorists, but it would open the door for heavy surveillance and disruption.

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Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism. Inside The Project 2025 Organization's Proposal.
On Thursday evening, news emerged that individuals within and outside of Trump administration were pushing to cast trans activists as domestic terrorists. Then, Project 2025 dropped its proposal.
www.erininthemorning.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This finally arrived on my desk and I cannot wait to dig in!
September 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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(1/2) Letzten Freitag durfte Andrea Rottmann am @ces.ubc.ca im Rahmen der Tobin Distinguished Lecture Series ihre aktuelle Forschung im Rahmen von QueerDem und ihr Buch vorstellen.
September 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.

The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Excited to host Andrea Rottman this Friday! Join in person at UBC or over zoom!
CES is excited to announce our second annual Tobin Distinguished Lecture! Historian and author Dr. Andrea Rottmann will give a talk entitled "From Weimar to Berlin: Queer Democratic Citizenship through Hilde Radusch's Five Lives" on September 12, 12-1:30 PM in BuTo 225 and over Zoom. See you there!
September 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This fall the DDGC Queer and Trans Studies Research Coop will be hosting a cozy reading book club. Join us to read and discuss Blutbuch by Kim de l’Horizon! Dates and registration can be found here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration for Cozy Reading: Blutbuch by Kim de l’Horizon
docs.google.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Our writing support groups are forming for Sept-Dec. They have been around since 2018 and are a vital component of community building in German studies. Join us! Reach out if you have questions. And pls share with colleagues, students. @ddgc.bsky.social
www.ddgccollective.org/writing-supp...
DDGC Writing Support Groups — The DDGC Collective
Join our writing community.
www.ddgccollective.org
August 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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So happy that the UBC Centre for European Studies *finally* has a new website. The clean design belies the amount of work and time that has gone into this project!
CES is excited to launch our brand-new website! This site includes several features to increase user friendliness and navigability: searchable People pages, a Research homepage where you can learn about our ongoing projects, and Donate pages for CES and the Tobin Lecture Series. Check it out!
August 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
So grateful I get to work with this impeccable, sharp, and generous scholar and teacher!
Friendlies, the inimitable Rina Limoni was gracious enough to have me on her Diasporas Speaking series. I talk a bit about queer Bosnian muslim diaspora life and the logics guiding daily life. It's very personal. Glad to chat with ppl about the ep. 🌈
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Writing Oneself into History: Queer, Bosnian, Muslim, and Foreign with Ervin Malakaj
Podcast Episode · Diasporas Speaking · 07/27/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I am so looking forward to kick off the fall with Andrea Rottmann giving the next Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies at UBC on September 12th! To join in person or virtually visit ces.ubc.ca/events/event...
August 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Celebrating you from afar @mharrabin.bsky.social ! 🎊
Absolutely delighted to officially be Dr. Harrabin after passing my viva with minor corrections this morning! Thank you to my examiners @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social & @katherinestone.bsky.social for their meaningful engagement with my work!
July 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Finally received my own copy
www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
July 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Via @laurah.bsky.social
: Trans Studies TT job posting at Williams apply.interfolio.com/169698?fbcli...
apply.interfolio.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Biked some 50k today to meet up with @hilmalatino.bsky.social, @lauriem.bsky.social and of course @jameyj.bsky.social tomorrow. Upsides of work travel by bike and ferry: saw orcas and a humpback on the way 🐋
June 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Enigma, the new documentary on April Ashley and Amanda Lear starring yours truly and directed by thee Zackary Drucker, premieres tonight on HBO Max in the US and Crave in Canada! Strap in for a surprisingly controversial lil doc!
June 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Look what arrived today @jonahgarde.bsky.social!
June 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I'm VERY pleased to announce that A Badge of Injury is now also available in paperback and can now be purchased for 19,95€ (+shipping) via the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social website.

If you order now, you might even get your copy before the end of Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

tinyurl.com/2fvk27wy
June 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“We don’t need any more disgusting ‘trans joy,’” Gill-Peterson says. “We don’t need any more ‘gender euphoria.’ Let’s just get rid of all that and spend our time delivering real things that matter to people, things like hormones and sex changes and surgeries.” www.them.us/story/jules-...
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 Supreme Court.
www.them.us
June 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Hugely looking forward to giving this talk at the Queer Kinship network:
“Pets Portraits and Sapphic Modernism: Queer Kinship beyond the Human”

Thursday 26 June 2025
5 pm (Italy) - 4 pm (UK) - 11 am (Toronto & East Coast)
Join online! 🌈🎓
www.queerkinshipnetwork.com/seminars?fbc...
seminars
seminars
www.queerkinshipnetwork.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Squealing in excitement!
CfP: Queer Lives & Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany’s LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures, an online conference that I have co-organized with Cedar Lensing-Sharp! Deadline for submissions: 30 August 2025! Keynotes from @manwithoutatan.bsky.social @jonahgarde.bsky.social & Camilla Smith!
June 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The DDGC Queer and Trans German Studies Research Cooperative aka Pink Pony Club is starting a cozy reading group. Come and join us! www.ddgccollective.org/events-calen...
DDGC Pink Pony Club Reading Group — The DDGC Collective
The DDGC Queer and Trans German Studies Research Cooperative (aka the Pink Pony Club) is hosting a reading group. Join us!
www.ddgccollective.org
June 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It's official and I am excited to step into the footprints of @smittermeier.bsky.social as a co-editor of DeGruyter's Transnational Queer Histories series together with @manwithoutatan.bsky.social 💜 www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/tqh-b...
Transnational Queer Histories
The series Transnational Queer Histories aims at encouraging queer historical studies, defined at their broadest, to forge new cross-disciplinary paths and pioneer innovative intersectional approaches...
www.degruyterbrill.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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
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Ich bin sehr dankbar für die tollen Beitragenden und die schöne Zusammenarbeit - der Band erscheint im Mai bei @transcript-verlag.bsky.social 💜

www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
April 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM