Kit Heyam (they/he)
@krheyam.bsky.social
Queer trans writer, historian, heritage practitioner, trainer, parent. Author of BEFORE WE WERE TRANS, a Lambda nominee and History Today book of the year. http://kitheyam.com
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I am terrible at promoting my own stuff, but I was recently on a very cool podcast with absolute delights @krheyam.bsky.social and Ann of @vulgarhistory.bsky.social talking all things Anne Lister! It really does get rather vulgar...
Regency Era power lesbian Anne Lister was many things: secret sex diarist, land-owner, mountain climber, womanizer.
We're joined by returning guest @krheyam.bsky.social and new guest Sarah Wingrove to dish all about Anne Lister’s wild life and legacy! pod.link/1489560920/e...
We're joined by returning guest @krheyam.bsky.social and new guest Sarah Wingrove to dish all about Anne Lister’s wild life and legacy! pod.link/1489560920/e...
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I am terrible at promoting my own stuff, but I was recently on a very cool podcast with absolute delights @krheyam.bsky.social and Ann of @vulgarhistory.bsky.social talking all things Anne Lister! It really does get rather vulgar...
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Where are we at with trans+ migrants rights? 🏳️⚧️
In our latest Substack blog, we reflect on what the Supreme Court ruling means for trans+ migrants, unpack interim changes to how trans+ people in #detention are treated, and how the Government is erasing gender non-conforming people🗞️ buff.ly/eLRKMrA
In our latest Substack blog, we reflect on what the Supreme Court ruling means for trans+ migrants, unpack interim changes to how trans+ people in #detention are treated, and how the Government is erasing gender non-conforming people🗞️ buff.ly/eLRKMrA
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Where are we at with trans+ migrants rights? 🏳️⚧️
In our latest Substack blog, we reflect on what the Supreme Court ruling means for trans+ migrants, unpack interim changes to how trans+ people in #detention are treated, and how the Government is erasing gender non-conforming people🗞️ buff.ly/eLRKMrA
In our latest Substack blog, we reflect on what the Supreme Court ruling means for trans+ migrants, unpack interim changes to how trans+ people in #detention are treated, and how the Government is erasing gender non-conforming people🗞️ buff.ly/eLRKMrA
Hello Bluesky, just to let you know I have a mailing list now! If you (like me) are trying to be on social media less, and would like to get infrequent emails with my book/event news, you can sign up at kitheyam.com/contact
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November 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Hello Bluesky, just to let you know I have a mailing list now! If you (like me) are trying to be on social media less, and would like to get infrequent emails with my book/event news, you can sign up at kitheyam.com/contact
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⚧️ Edited by @krheyam.bsky.social and Jon Ward, "New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity" features a diverse collective of researchers sharing their experiences of approaching gender nonconformity from a decolonial perspective.
Read now 👉 bit.ly/4qqROJB
#OpenAccess #GenderStudies
Read now 👉 bit.ly/4qqROJB
#OpenAccess #GenderStudies
October 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
⚧️ Edited by @krheyam.bsky.social and Jon Ward, "New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity" features a diverse collective of researchers sharing their experiences of approaching gender nonconformity from a decolonial perspective.
Read now 👉 bit.ly/4qqROJB
#OpenAccess #GenderStudies
Read now 👉 bit.ly/4qqROJB
#OpenAccess #GenderStudies
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It begins with chipping off Art 3 (freedom from torture) and Art 8 (right to privacy and family life) for foreign criminals to assist deportation, then it will be extended to all asylum seekers, after that - who knows? It's the thin end of the wedge. Human rights should always belong to all humans.
Starmer to rethink human rights law to tackle ‘Farage boats’
Prime minister blames Brexit for surge in numbers of small boat crossings but defends UK’s membership of ECHR
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
It begins with chipping off Art 3 (freedom from torture) and Art 8 (right to privacy and family life) for foreign criminals to assist deportation, then it will be extended to all asylum seekers, after that - who knows? It's the thin end of the wedge. Human rights should always belong to all humans.
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The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
September 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
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UK medical establishment consulting with 8 anti-trans groups on medical policy on puberty blockers: Bayswater Support Group, Clinical Advisory Network on Sex & Gender, Genspect, LGB Alliance, Sex Matters, The Integrated Psychology Clinic, Thoughtful Therapists, Transgender Trend
September 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
UK medical establishment consulting with 8 anti-trans groups on medical policy on puberty blockers: Bayswater Support Group, Clinical Advisory Network on Sex & Gender, Genspect, LGB Alliance, Sex Matters, The Integrated Psychology Clinic, Thoughtful Therapists, Transgender Trend
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The speed with which Labour came to the, at least implied, defence of Linehan, despite a track record of abuse and threats from him, exemplifies just how embedded the dehumanisation of trans and non-binary individuals has become as government policy. They really don't care who gets hurt.
September 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The speed with which Labour came to the, at least implied, defence of Linehan, despite a track record of abuse and threats from him, exemplifies just how embedded the dehumanisation of trans and non-binary individuals has become as government policy. They really don't care who gets hurt.
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We encourage our supporters to write to the BBC to complain about the use of a slur against trans women in this article www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is directly written in text and is not a quotation.
This is directly written in text and is not a quotation.
Free speech laws need to be reviewed after Linehan arrest, says Streeting
The health secretary says ministers wanted police to focus on street crime rather than posts on social media.
www.bbc.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We encourage our supporters to write to the BBC to complain about the use of a slur against trans women in this article www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is directly written in text and is not a quotation.
This is directly written in text and is not a quotation.
Honoured to speak to Jake Hall for their fantastic piece here, about something that leaves me frightened and furious.
The case of a trans man currently before a U.K. court is part of a long fascist history of restricting bodily autonomy.
A U.K. trans man was denied legal gender recognition because he’s trying to conceive | Xtra Magazine
The decision falls in line with horrific sterilization histories entwined with rising fascism
xtramagazine.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Honoured to speak to Jake Hall for their fantastic piece here, about something that leaves me frightened and furious.
Fellow freelancers, a boring tax question: do you use any accounting software, and would you recommend it? I currently, & happily, use an Excel spreadsheet - but I see this whole ~making tax digital!~ thing looming, so am reluctantly in the market for recommendations of more complicated things 🙏
July 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Fellow freelancers, a boring tax question: do you use any accounting software, and would you recommend it? I currently, & happily, use an Excel spreadsheet - but I see this whole ~making tax digital!~ thing looming, so am reluctantly in the market for recommendations of more complicated things 🙏
It's✨publication day✨! You can order a copy, or get the open access ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d.... And I've got 5 spare hardback copies to give away to anyone who runs a book-sharing scheme or would struggle to access the ebook - hmu if that's you 🏳️⚧️📚
July 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
It's✨publication day✨! You can order a copy, or get the open access ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d.... And I've got 5 spare hardback copies to give away to anyone who runs a book-sharing scheme or would struggle to access the ebook - hmu if that's you 🏳️⚧️📚
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Note also how France 24 refers to ‘trans people and their supporters’. In contrast to ‘trans activists’ when uk media reports. The uk has chewed on the shitty tablet of culture wars for far too long now
Sacre Bleu! According to the BBC absolutely nothing happened in Westminster hall today, hundreds of Trans people definitely did not undertake a mass lobby and MPs certainly didn't hear from their constituents about why the EHRC is a liability. Meanwhile in France... www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Trans campaigners descend on UK parliament to protest 'bathroom ban'
Hundreds of transgender people and their supporters flocked to the UK parliament on Wednesday to urge lawmakers to oppose new guidelines that would deny them access to certain single-sex spaces.
www.france24.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Note also how France 24 refers to ‘trans people and their supporters’. In contrast to ‘trans activists’ when uk media reports. The uk has chewed on the shitty tablet of culture wars for far too long now
It's HERE!!! I'm ridiculously excited to finally be holding NEW AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO GENDER NONCONFORMITY: FORGING A HOME FOR OURSELVES in my hands. You can preorder, or find where to get the OPEN ACCESS ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-decolonial-approaches-to-gender-nonconformity-9781350419568/⚧️📚💜
June 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It's HERE!!! I'm ridiculously excited to finally be holding NEW AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO GENDER NONCONFORMITY: FORGING A HOME FOR OURSELVES in my hands. You can preorder, or find where to get the OPEN ACCESS ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...
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We will be at parliament today reporting on the mass lobbying day.
And we will try to keep you updated on the events as they unfold.
And we will try to keep you updated on the events as they unfold.
June 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
We will be at parliament today reporting on the mass lobbying day.
And we will try to keep you updated on the events as they unfold.
And we will try to keep you updated on the events as they unfold.
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Today’s bonus Pride episode is about ancient Rome’s short-lived trans Emperor, horny teenage Elagabalus. I’m joined by @krheyam.bsky.social to discuss this teenage wild child’s short, weird reign. episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9m...
June 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Today’s bonus Pride episode is about ancient Rome’s short-lived trans Emperor, horny teenage Elagabalus. I’m joined by @krheyam.bsky.social to discuss this teenage wild child’s short, weird reign. episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9m...
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"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"
"Junior doctors condemn gender verdict as ‘scientifically illiterate’" Helen Joyce, of Sex Matters: “It’s terrifying that a group of young doctors, all of whom have been through several years of advanced education and training in biology, have been indoctrinated by trans activism to such an extent"
June 2, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"
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They are literally attempting to re-write history.
"You may have had rights in the past, but now we are changing it so you never did"
"You may have had rights in the past, but now we are changing it so you never did"
"Trans people who feel they’ve lost rights should ‘distinguish between rights in law and preference for things to be a certain way’"
Love how "trans people can't distinguish their desires from reality" has spilled over into legal discourse now
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Love how "trans people can't distinguish their desires from reality" has spilled over into legal discourse now
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK equalities watchdog: transgender people may be asked about gender status in workplace
Trans people who feel they’ve lost rights should ‘distinguish between rights in law and preference for things to be a certain way’, EHCR chair said
www.theguardian.com
June 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
They are literally attempting to re-write history.
"You may have had rights in the past, but now we are changing it so you never did"
"You may have had rights in the past, but now we are changing it so you never did"
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Barbican Renewal has a consultation which closes tonight which gives more toilets accessible to women and more toilets for everyone as a whole, including building in protections for trans visitors if the EHRC start to police toilets. Could you respond positively?
www.barbican.org.uk/barbican-ren...
www.barbican.org.uk/barbican-ren...
Barbican Renewal Consultation: May 2025 | Barbican
Have your say on updated proposals for the Foyers, Lakeside and Conservatory
www.barbican.org.uk
June 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Barbican Renewal has a consultation which closes tonight which gives more toilets accessible to women and more toilets for everyone as a whole, including building in protections for trans visitors if the EHRC start to police toilets. Could you respond positively?
www.barbican.org.uk/barbican-ren...
www.barbican.org.uk/barbican-ren...
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Also big fan of them using a rainbow gradient cause they know using an actual pride flag would upset their target audience of bigots lmao
Taken trans rights back 25 years.
Banned from every major Pride march in the country because of their bigotry.
Biggest drop in the UK's ILGA rating.
But Labour are wishing us "Happy Pride.
Can't bring themselves to say to LGBTQ+ though. The racist fucks in Labour probably think it means white pride
Banned from every major Pride march in the country because of their bigotry.
Biggest drop in the UK's ILGA rating.
But Labour are wishing us "Happy Pride.
Can't bring themselves to say to LGBTQ+ though. The racist fucks in Labour probably think it means white pride
June 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Also big fan of them using a rainbow gradient cause they know using an actual pride flag would upset their target audience of bigots lmao
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Very excited to see the piece I wrote with @krheyam.bsky.social on ‘Gendering Material Objects in Heritage Practice’ now out in The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender’ which stems from our project www.genderingthemuseum.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Very excited to see the piece I wrote with @krheyam.bsky.social on ‘Gendering Material Objects in Heritage Practice’ now out in The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender’ which stems from our project www.genderingthemuseum.co.uk
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As an alumnus of the University of Warwick, I have written to ask for more information on their new trans segregation policy, which was uploaded and then removed from their website. Thanks to @whatthetrans.com and @katymontgomerie.com for raising awareness of this.
May 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
As an alumnus of the University of Warwick, I have written to ask for more information on their new trans segregation policy, which was uploaded and then removed from their website. Thanks to @whatthetrans.com and @katymontgomerie.com for raising awareness of this.
Just wanted to shout out NOTCHES, the history of sexuality blog I help to edit, which is feeling a little lonely on Bluesky at the moment! If you'd like to have more history of sexuality (including looooots of queer stuff) pop up on your feed, why not give us a follow? @notchesblog.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Just wanted to shout out NOTCHES, the history of sexuality blog I help to edit, which is feeling a little lonely on Bluesky at the moment! If you'd like to have more history of sexuality (including looooots of queer stuff) pop up on your feed, why not give us a follow? @notchesblog.bsky.social
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Letter by Aberdeen Trans Action to @robertgordonuni.bsky.social. It questions why they have changed their policy to reflect the non inclusive usage of the term "biological sex" for their toilets.
Please share. We must out places that are excluding trans people.
Please share. We must out places that are excluding trans people.
May 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Letter by Aberdeen Trans Action to @robertgordonuni.bsky.social. It questions why they have changed their policy to reflect the non inclusive usage of the term "biological sex" for their toilets.
Please share. We must out places that are excluding trans people.
Please share. We must out places that are excluding trans people.