I am chairing ‘A Look into the Trans Archive’ @britishlibrary
10 Nov 4-5pm
An hour long sprint through two centuries+ of Trans histories
Feat: @christineburns, Dr Nat Raha @fullnommunism, Dr Clare Tebbutt & Prof. Ann Heilmann
Book for free here: https://www.bl.uk/events/a-look-into-the-trans-archive-november-2020
10 Nov 4-5pm
An hour long sprint through two centuries+ of Trans histories
Feat: @christineburns, Dr Nat Raha @fullnommunism, Dr Clare Tebbutt & Prof. Ann Heilmann

Here are some resources I’ve been reading and listening to in preparation for the event.
Clare Tebbutt’s “The Spectre of the ‘Man-Woman Athlete’: Mark Weston, Zdenek Koubek, the 1936 Olympics and the uncertainty of sex” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09612025.2015.1028211
Clare Tebbutt’s “The Spectre of the ‘Man-Woman Athlete’: Mark Weston, Zdenek Koubek, the 1936 Olympics and the uncertainty of sex” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09612025.2015.1028211
Histories of the Transgender Child
by Jules Gill-Peterson https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/histories-of-the-transgender-child
by Jules Gill-Peterson https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/histories-of-the-transgender-child
Pressing for Change: 25 years seeking trans equality
Professor Stephen Whittle http://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=3683
Professor Stephen Whittle http://www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=3683
Conundrum, travel writer Jan Morris’s memoir https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/02/jan-morris-life-in-motion
Nat Raha @fullnommunism's ‘Queering Marxist [Trans]Feminism: Queer and Trans Social Reproduction’
Neo-/Victorian Biographilia and James Miranda Barry
A Study in Transgender and Transgenre
by Professor Ann Heilmann https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319713854
A Study in Transgender and Transgenre
by Professor Ann Heilmann https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319713854
@supitslois’s work on the challenges of telling Trans histories in Museums: ‘Transcending history’ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/newe.12156
@histoftech’s
‘Hacking the Cis-tem Transgender Citizens and the Early Digital State’
https://marhicks.com/writing/hicks-hackingthecistempreprint.pdf
‘Hacking the Cis-tem Transgender Citizens and the Early Digital State’
https://marhicks.com/writing/hicks-hackingthecistempreprint.pdf
@HinchyJessica's work on Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c. 1850-1990 https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/registers-of-eunuchs-in-colonial-india/
Trans Britain: Our Long Journey from the Shadows, edited by @christineburns https://unbound.com/books/trans-britain/
Adrian Kane-Galbraith’s work on history of gender transition in post-war Britain
https://history.washington.edu/people/adrian-kane-galbraith
https://history.washington.edu/people/adrian-kane-galbraith
“Diagnosing sex: Intersex surgery and ‘sex change’ in Britain 1930–1955” by David Andrew Griffiths https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460717740339
Female Husbands: A Trans History by @activisthistory https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/female-husbands/4BC8AE77B6EAF6055BD1DA64035509B3
British physician and first trans man to undergo phalloplasty Michael Dillon’s 1946 memoir Self: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Self.html?id=WSPLBAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
@zinovievletter’s chapter ‘On the Malleability of the Body’ in the Unfinished Business: the Fight for Women’s Rights exhibition catalogue https://shop.bl.uk/collections/unfinished-business/exhibition-catalogue
There’s loads more histories and sources, sorry if I haven’t mentioned them.
@HistoryWO @LGBTQPlaces @Queer_Britain @TisdallLaura @rawfeminism @CherylMorgan @RoyalHistSoc @MoTransology
@DanNouveau @LGBTHM @QueerHistGold @NotchesBlog
@HistoryWO @LGBTQPlaces @Queer_Britain @TisdallLaura @rawfeminism @CherylMorgan @RoyalHistSoc @MoTransology
@DanNouveau @LGBTHM @QueerHistGold @NotchesBlog