Jamey Jesperson

Part 2 arrives: a first attempt at a timeline of 500 years of Native trans men and transmasc history

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Here's a timeline of 500 years of Native American trans women's history, please learn things

(I accidentally published it with the worst picture as the main pic so am posting this with just the url.)

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yessssssssss!!!

So many I'd never heard of, and so many I wanna add!!! Will compile in an email one of these days ❤️ thank you sooooo much for making this. Immediately added to my syllabi 🥲

I love this one ❤️ Holder doesn't give much identifying information but I really wonder if it was Osh-Tisch who said this - the age matches up, at least. Also, I think the sisters record is Lakota? But from a 2S person interviewed in the 1970s! We should seriously make a source map one day... 👀

AND there are stories of trans women/girls moving between communities as theirs become unsafe. I think one of the young trans women arrested w/ Osh-Tisch on the Crow rez had actually escaped a residential school, knowing there was a sisterhood among the Crow ❤️ we have so much to discuss at the AHA 😭

Omg, I'm seeing a lot of similar "would-be" stories in the PNW too, not just by anthros but elders recalling violence against trans kin and explaining there are others "like them" but who don't change dress. Makes me think that "gay" interpretations of this history were just cases of detransition 👀

This varied greatly by region, what colonial power was taking hold, and community, with trans women living more remotely and without religious influence generally spared colonial suppression until the late 19th C when population loss led many tribes to amalgamate, and/or be moved onto reserves.

In the PNW, this was a dramatic change from early contact (1810s-40s) where indig trans women retained powerful roles as healers, seers, and leaders of their communities, and went largely unnoticed by white people. But come mass migration, missionization, and policing, their abilities to pass waned.

This is exactly what I am mapping out in my diss! In summary, yes, most trans women are shifting to masculine dress by the 20th C to avoid colonial scrutiny, some in direct consequence of being arrested and their hair cut, etc., which represented a major shift in colonial power post-1880s thru 1900.

It is open-access here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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I write for the tumblr girlies (inclusive) and the tumblr girlies only.

Deadddddd 😂😂😂 adding to my cv now, ty ❤️

Stopppp. Thank you 🫶🏼 those words mean a lot!

Thank you so much for publishing and sharing my research! I am so grateful ☺️

Flyer with a green background for UBC geography colloquium on november 18th featuring jasbir puar and yours truly called “you cant pinkwash a genocide: sex/gender/fascism”

And then this coming week

My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall.
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Indigenous Social Science Doctoral Fellowship. For more information, visit - www.ssc.uwo.ca/graduate/awa...

Equity and Diversity Social Science Doctoral Fellowship
For more information on eligibility and the application, visit www.ssc.uwo.ca/graduate/awa...

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

yayyyyyy! just had a consult with her myself - so nice to finally have someone in the lower mainland :)

Trans prison policies aren’t just about gender—they are about Indigenous rights | Xtra Magazine Trans-affirming prison policies are being revoked in parts of Canada and the U.S. We need to protect Two-Spirit and trans people in prisons

This is a really important article, co-written by settler scholar Leon Laidlaw and Fallon Aubee, a Metis Two-Spirit survivor of both day schools and prison incarceration. I'm particularly blown away by the study showing that of the 99 gender-diverse incarcerated people studied, HALF are Indigenous

New course: Travesti Theory 101 In October, I will teach a new online course. The course will be synchronous. It will be about Travesti Theory. This course will teach you the basic ideas of travesti theory as they have developed …

Take "Travesti Theory 101" online w/ scholar Marce Butierrez this October! If you are working in Trans Studies (or the like) and want/need to become more familiar with travesti/trans* life, identity, & politics in Latin America, I highly recommend this course 💗
marcebutierrez.com/2025/09/12/t...

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 👇🏼

SOSC/HUMS 250-108 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

JUST IN: The search for the next Research Chair in Trans Studies at UVic has begun! Hiring at the Associate or Full Professor level in the Faculty of Humanities or Sociology - July 2026 start 🏳️‍⚧️

If anyone wants insight on UVic or the Chair (I'm a PhD here) pls reach out!

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Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

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 💛

Wanted to share this exciting new CfP for a Trans Studies special issue in @early-am-lit.bsky.social ! 📜

noooooooooo! I need to know who started this lie and I need to know now 💔