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We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria is committed to the preservation of the history of pioneering activists, community leaders, and researchers who have contributed to the betterment of Trans+ and other gender-diverse people.
Since 2007, we have been actively acquiring documents, rare publications, and memorabilia of persons and organizations associated with activism by and for Trans+ people.
We began with the generous donation of the Rikki Swin Institute collection. The Transgender Archives have been enhanced by other significant donations including the personal papers of Reed Erickson, the entire University of Ulster Trans-Gender Archive collection, and the records of Zenith Foundation of Vancouver Canada, among many others.
Our records span over 160 meters or 530 linear feet (1.5 football fields long), go back over 120 years, and are in 15 languages from 23 countries on six continents. Our collections comprise the largest trans archives in the world. We are accessible to everyone, free of charge.
Celebrating 10 Years!
The Transgender Archives is celebrating our first TEN YEARS! We officially launched in late Fall 2011 at a joint gathering of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, the Southern Comfort Conference, and the U.S. Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, all meeting at the Emory Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Since then, our team at the Chair in Transgender Studies and UVic Libraries have been honoured to be able to assist students, community and academic researchers, and members of the general public to find out more about the history of Trans+ people.
This upcoming year will be a year of celebration! It will be a year of looking back, and a year of looking forward, and we want you to be a part of it. Over the upcoming year, you will see special 10 Year Anniversary content from us!
FTM Newsletter
The FTM Newsletter was created by Lou Sullivan and first published in 1987. It became the most widely circulated & highly respected publication exploring transmasculine experiences. All 67 issues are now available online.
Trans Activism Oral History
The Trans Activism Oral History collection is a project of the LGBTQ History Digital Collaboratory. It consists of 17 video and audio interviews with leading Trans activist elders from across North America.
Transvestia
Transvestia was the first widely distributed magazine focused on the cross-dressing community. All 111 issues (1960-1986) are now digitized and available online!
Transgender Scrapbooks
From 1971-1982, 13 scrapbooks were compiled from newspaper & magazine clippings published in the UK. The content relates to gender & sexual identity and are organized in thought-provoking, and sometimes humorous, ways.
Tapestry Magazine
Founded by Merissa Sherrill Lynn, Transgender Tapestry is a magazine published from 1979-2008 by the Tiffany Club and then the Intl. Foundation for Gender Education (IFGE). While we hold all physical copies, the Digital Transgender Archive has all issues available online.
TransArchives @ DTA
We at the Transgender Archives thank our partners at the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) for digitizing nearly 800 of our physical items and for making them available online. View our items on the DTA website.
Digital Transgender Archive
The Digital Transgender Archive provides a centralized hub for trans-related historical materials, including born-digital materials, and materials contributed by independent projects.
Featured material
In The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future you can read about some of the history of trans activism and research, learn about how the Transgender Archives got started, and see a few highlights from our collections.
- Download the 2016 book (PDF)
- Download the 2014 book (PDF)
- Print copies are available by donation; contact us to order.
The Transgender Archives: Foundations for the Future was chosen as a 2015 Lambda Literary Awards finalist in LGBT nonfiction.
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Joy Ladin - Guest Speaker
WEBSITES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php https://kolotmayimreformtemple.com/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair https://kolotmayimreformtemple.com/donations/ The Chair in Transgender and Kolot Mayim - Building Bridges: Celebrating Diversity in Jewish Life Presents Joy Ladin "Jonah, God and Other Strangers: Reading the Torah from a Trans perspective" Sunday, February 6th, 2022 11:00 AM Pacific Live on Zoom - Registration Required Joy Ladin is the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution. Joy Ladin holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Princeton University, and long held the Gottesman Chair in English at Yeshiva University. Her most recent book, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, was a Lambda Literary Award and Triangle Award finalist. A new book of poems, Shekhinah Speaks, is in the voice of the Shekhinah, the feminine aspect of the Divine, and is forthcoming in early 2022. She serves as an emeritus member of the Board of Keshet, an organization devoted to full inclusion of LGTBQ Jews in the Jewish world. In this talk, Joy will share her personal journey and offer her insights and unique reading of gender identity in the Hebrew Torah. She will analyze and reinterpret key texts from a trans perspective--that is, in light of experiences of not fitting into identity-defining roles and categories, experiences of feeling estranged that are particularly acute for transgender and nonbinary people but common to everyone and, the Torah tells us, to God.
2022 Scholarships & Fellowships
https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/what-we-do/apply/index.php
Sachie Tsuruta - Scholar in Residence
Sachie Tsuruta Creating Transgender Identity Maps in Japan Thursday, January 13th, 2022 12:00-1:00PM Live on Zoom! Due to COVID restrictions, no in-person component will be offered. Sachie Tsuruta is a Sociology and Gender Studies Associate Professor at Chiba University, Greater Tokyo, Japan. She is also a Scholar in Residence with UVic's Chair in Transgender Studies. Sachie has done fieldwork and interview research with Japanese trans communities for two decades. In this lunchtime talk, I draw on the Trans+ Identity Words’ Map (2000s, 2010s, and 2020s) from my interview research of Trans+ people in Japan using their own words from an ethnomethodology and conversation analysis point of view.See more videos from the Master Playlist playlist on YouTube.
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Transgender Archives
FTM Newsletter Panel
Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair Follow us: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/contact/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php View all issues of FTM Newsletter online: https://vault.library.uvic.ca/collections/d13ed5ae-6ea3-4cb8-b72a-4a5c794982b6 LINKS/INFO MENTIONED DURING PANEL: Issue 58 (Lou Sullivan's Memorial issue) https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/88c4eb45-04d9-4d53-9abb-79c4375d42d9?locale=en Issue 15 (first issue after Lou Sullivan's death): https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/40d49323-dca1-4cad-b0ba-0667700cf7d0?locale=en "From female to male: the life of Jack Bee Garland": https://www.worldcat.org/title/from-female-to-male-the-life-of-jack-bee-garland/oclc/21441714 Metamorphosis Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 1982) from Digital Transgender Archive: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/c821gj816 Gender Review No. 1 (June 1978) from Digital Transgender Archive: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/tb09j5928 San Francisco GLBT Historical Society Museum: https://www.glbthistory.org/museum-about-visitor-info Rupert Raj fonds, The Arquives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives: https://collections.arquives.ca/en/permalink/descriptions16420 Rupert Raj fonds @ Digital Transgender Archive: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/catalog?f%5Bcreator_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Raj%2C+Rupert&search_field=all_fields Max Wolf Valerio on the cover of FTM Newsletter: https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/b6c111d7-0ce5-46c3-bb56-65a930c2f1e8?locale=en "Max" documentary (a part of the documentary "Female Misbehavior"): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104249/ "Genetic males have big feet" (issue #4 June 1988) : https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/80473d10-9ad3-4080-9af5-afb7b9d7bdbd?locale=en Image of Rupert Raj (issue #4 June 1988) : https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/80473d10-9ad3-4080-9af5-afb7b9d7bdbd?locale=en Kevin Horowitz Issue 26 (February 1994): https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/15eddec1-c4fc-4e28-a9d8-6f08f9c1e6b9?locale=en "The Brandon Tenna Story": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144801/ Max's book, "The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces": https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781532359262/the-criminal-the-invisibility-of-parallel-forces.aspx Trans People of Color Coalition: https://www.transpocc.org FTMInternational: https://www.ftmi.org/ END Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair Follow us: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/contact/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php View all issues of FTM Newsletter online: https://vault.library.uvic.ca/collections/d13ed5ae-6ea3-4cb8-b72a-4a5c794982b6
Introduction: Transgender Archives
https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/
Syrus Marcus Ware - "touch change"
https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php The Chair in Transgender Studies Presents Syrus Marcus Ware “touch change: what I learned at the trans archives" 12:00 PM Pacific, Thurs., Nov. 25th, 2021 Syrus will be LIVE online, with Aaron Devor hosting in-person from the Trans Archives. JOIN US in-person, UVic, McPherson Library A003, OR on Zoom. In this talk Dr Syrus Marcus Ware will be exploring the role of archives in community building and remembering who we deem as inherently valuable- considering the importance and need for spaces like the trans archives. Syrus will consider his project Touch Change:2068, a speculative fiction drawing and story-based exhibition held at Grunt Gallery in Vancouver based on his research in the archives. Syrus Marcus Ware is a Vanier scholar, visual artist, activist, curator and educator. Syrus uses painting, installation and performance to explore social justice frameworks and black activist culture, and his work has been shown widely, including in a solo show at Grunt Gallery, Vancouver in 2018 (2068:Touch Change), for the 2019 Toronto Biennial of Art and the Ryerson Image Centre (Antarctica and Ancestors, Do You Read Us? (Dispatches from the Future)), for the Bentway’s Safety in Public Spaces Initiative in 2020 (Radical Love) and at the Never Apart in Montreal. His performance works have been part of festivals across Canada, including at Cripping The Stage (Harbourfront Centre, 2016, 2019), Complex Social Change (University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, 2015) and Decolonizing and Decriminalizing Trans Genres (University of Winnipeg, 2015). He is part of the Performance Disability Art Collective and a core-team member of Black Lives Matter – Toronto. His on-going curatorial work includes That’s So Gay (Gladstone Hotel, 2016-2020) and BlacknessYes!/Blockorama.See more videos from the Transgender Archive Videos playlist on YouTube.
Moving Trans History Forward 2021
[MTHF21 HIGHLIGHTS] 4 Days in 11 Minutes
Conference Website: https://www.uvic.ca/mthf2021/ Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair The Moving Trans History Forward conferences are not just for scholars, or just for community people. MTHF conferences are a unique blend that create opportunities for cross-fertilization among members of general public; students and faculty; artists; activists; Trans, Nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and other gender-diverse people; family members; allies; and service providers. Conferences consider both our history, and the crucial issues which impact us today, and into the future—locally, nationally, and globally.
[YOUTH PANEL] Moving Trans History Forward conference 2021
Conference Website: https://www.uvic.ca/mthf2021/ Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair THE YOUTH PANEL PRESENTED BY RBC IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SKIPPING STONE (CALGARY, ALBERTA) Three youth (ages 11, 14, and 18) show a PechaKucha style art presentation about their experiences of being Trans+ youth. A panel of three additional Trans+ youth (14, 17, 19) provide LIVE responses and discussion.
[KEYNOTE] Miss Major w/ Kelendria Nation & Syrus Marcus Ware - Moving Trans History Forward 2021
Conference Website: https://www.uvic.ca/mthf2021/ Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair THE MOVING TRANS HISTORY FORWARD CONFERENCE PRESENTS MISS MAJOR SATURDAY KEYNOTE MARCH 13 2021 11:15 AM PST Miss Major is a Black, transgender activist who has fought for over fifty years to create a better world. ABOUT MISS MAJOR Major is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a survivor of Dannemora Prison and Bellevue Hospital’s “queen tank.” Her global legacy of activism is rooted in her own experiences, and she continues her work to uplift transgender women of color, particularly those who have survived incarceration and police brutality. Miss Major is featured in the 2015 documentary film, MAJOR!, which explores the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. IN CONVERSATION WITH KELENDRIA NATION & SYRUS MARCUS WARE Kelendria Nation is a Black woman of Trans experience of Caribbean descent who uses her perspective and unique experience to bring awareness to the various issues surrounding trans people; especially trans women of colour. She has dedicated herself to using her voice to impact change and bridge understanding across all communities. She provides advocacy, resolutions and transitions for Trans identified peoples. Through her work in community space through advocacy, she strives to allow folks to see that Trans, Non binary, and 2spirit identified folks because of their multiple intersections are often times left out in conversations. With collaboration and standing in solidarity with other community members she has been given the tools of being able to communicate her experience which has allowed her to tell her own story in her own voice. It is her hope that in time there will be more opportunities to empower other BIMPOC identified folks in the same which she has been. Syrus Marcus Ware is a Vanier scholar, visual artist, activist, curator and educator. Syrus uses drawing, installation and performance to explore social justice frameworks and black activist culture, and he’s shown widely in galleries and festivals across Canada. He is part of the Performance Disability Art Collective and a core-team member of Black Lives Matter – Toronto. He has won several recognitions including the TD Diversity Award 2017, “Best Queer Activist” NOW Magazine 2005, and the Steinert and Ferreiro Award 2012. He is the co-editor or the best-selling Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada (URP, 2020). Photo Credit: Jalani MorganSee more videos from the Moving Trans History Forward 2021 playlist on YouTube.
Scholars & Fellows
2022 Scholarships & Fellowships
https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/what-we-do/apply/index.phpSachie Tsuruta - Scholar in Residence
Sachie Tsuruta Creating Transgender Identity Maps in Japan Thursday, January 13th, 2022 12:00-1:00PM Live on Zoom! Due to COVID restrictions, no in-person component will be offered. Sachie Tsuruta is a Sociology and Gender Studies Associate Professor at Chiba University, Greater Tokyo, Japan. She is also a Scholar in Residence with UVic's Chair in Transgender Studies. Sachie has done fieldwork and interview research with Japanese trans communities for two decades. In this lunchtime talk, I draw on the Trans+ Identity Words’ Map (2000s, 2010s, and 2020s) from my interview research of Trans+ people in Japan using their own words from an ethnomethodology and conversation analysis point of view.
2021 Scholars & Fellows
CONGRATULATIONS We are proud to announce the 2021 Chair in Transgender Studies Scholarship & Fellowship recipients. Read more about the recipients and their exciting research.https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/research/scholarship/index.php Thank you to our community supporters, like Andrew Beckerman, who helped make these awards possible. Become a supporter today! https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair Over the coming year, you will hear more from each of our recipients. https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/contact/index.phpSee more videos from the Scholars & Fellows playlist on YouTube.
Speakers
FTM Newsletter Panel
Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair Follow us: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/contact/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php View all issues of FTM Newsletter online: https://vault.library.uvic.ca/collections/d13ed5ae-6ea3-4cb8-b72a-4a5c794982b6 LINKS/INFO MENTIONED DURING PANEL: Issue 58 (Lou Sullivan's Memorial issue) https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/88c4eb45-04d9-4d53-9abb-79c4375d42d9?locale=en Issue 15 (first issue after Lou Sullivan's death): https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/40d49323-dca1-4cad-b0ba-0667700cf7d0?locale=en "From female to male: the life of Jack Bee Garland": https://www.worldcat.org/title/from-female-to-male-the-life-of-jack-bee-garland/oclc/21441714 Metamorphosis Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 1982) from Digital Transgender Archive: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/c821gj816 Gender Review No. 1 (June 1978) from Digital Transgender Archive: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/tb09j5928 San Francisco GLBT Historical Society Museum: https://www.glbthistory.org/museum-about-visitor-info Rupert Raj fonds, The Arquives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives: https://collections.arquives.ca/en/permalink/descriptions16420 Rupert Raj fonds @ Digital Transgender Archive: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/catalog?f%5Bcreator_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Raj%2C+Rupert&search_field=all_fields Max Wolf Valerio on the cover of FTM Newsletter: https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/b6c111d7-0ce5-46c3-bb56-65a930c2f1e8?locale=en "Max" documentary (a part of the documentary "Female Misbehavior"): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104249/ "Genetic males have big feet" (issue #4 June 1988) : https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/80473d10-9ad3-4080-9af5-afb7b9d7bdbd?locale=en Image of Rupert Raj (issue #4 June 1988) : https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/80473d10-9ad3-4080-9af5-afb7b9d7bdbd?locale=en Kevin Horowitz Issue 26 (February 1994): https://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/15eddec1-c4fc-4e28-a9d8-6f08f9c1e6b9?locale=en "The Brandon Tenna Story": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144801/ Max's book, "The Criminal: The Invisibility of Parallel Forces": https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781532359262/the-criminal-the-invisibility-of-parallel-forces.aspx Trans People of Color Coalition: https://www.transpocc.org FTMInternational: https://www.ftmi.org/ END Chair in Transgender Studies: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php Donate: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair Follow us: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/contact/index.php Transgender Archives: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/index.php View all issues of FTM Newsletter online: https://vault.library.uvic.ca/collections/d13ed5ae-6ea3-4cb8-b72a-4a5c794982b6Joy Ladin - Guest Speaker
WEBSITES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php https://kolotmayimreformtemple.com/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair https://kolotmayimreformtemple.com/donations/ The Chair in Transgender and Kolot Mayim - Building Bridges: Celebrating Diversity in Jewish Life Presents Joy Ladin "Jonah, God and Other Strangers: Reading the Torah from a Trans perspective" Sunday, February 6th, 2022 11:00 AM Pacific Live on Zoom - Registration Required Joy Ladin is the first openly transgender professor at an Orthodox Jewish institution. Joy Ladin holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Princeton University, and long held the Gottesman Chair in English at Yeshiva University. Her most recent book, The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, was a Lambda Literary Award and Triangle Award finalist. A new book of poems, Shekhinah Speaks, is in the voice of the Shekhinah, the feminine aspect of the Divine, and is forthcoming in early 2022. She serves as an emeritus member of the Board of Keshet, an organization devoted to full inclusion of LGTBQ Jews in the Jewish world. In this talk, Joy will share her personal journey and offer her insights and unique reading of gender identity in the Hebrew Torah. She will analyze and reinterpret key texts from a trans perspective--that is, in light of experiences of not fitting into identity-defining roles and categories, experiences of feeling estranged that are particularly acute for transgender and nonbinary people but common to everyone and, the Torah tells us, to God.
Adrienne Smith - Invited Speaker
WEBSITE: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair ADRIENNE SMITH - "RECENT ADVANCES IN TRANSGENDER LAW" Tuesday, September 15th, 2020 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PST BIO: Adrienne Smith is a transgender human rights activist and social justice lawyer. They hold a double honours BA in English Literature and Geography (2000), a Masters in Human Geography (2005), and a JD (2013), all from the University of British Columbia. Adrienne is the recipient of the Canadian Bar Association BC Diversity Award, the Canadian Mental Health Association BC Branch Nancy Hall Public Policy Leadership Award, the Allard Law Alumni Achievement Award, and the Vancouver and District Labour Council Syd Thompson award for Award for Community Service. ABSTRACT: The struggle for transgender recognition and rights in Canada is an evolving area of law. In this short zoom presentation, Adrienne Smith, a Vancouver Social Justice Lawyer, will discuss recent legal victories for trans people, and the issues that may be next for transgender litigants. Adrienne will begin with foundational cases about the right to access bathrooms and other gendered facilities, the right to change sex designations on government-issued ID without surgery, and the explicit recognition of gender identity and expression in provincial and federal human rights legislation. They will then give participants an update on the types of cases that have been argued since explicit recognition, and what types of cases we can expect in the future.See more videos from the Speakers playlist on YouTube.
Moving Trans History Forward 2018
MTHF18 Highlights
MOVING TRANS HISTORY FORWARD 2018 CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://www.uvic.ca/mthf2018/ CHAIR IN TRANSGENDER STUDIES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php TRANSGENDER ARCHIVES: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair
MTHF18 Youth Panel
MOVING TRANS HISTORY FORWARD 2018 CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://www.uvic.ca/mthf2018/ CHAIR IN TRANSGENDER STUDIES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php TRANSGENDER ARCHIVES: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair YOUTH PANEL The Moving Trans History Forward conference is proud to present “The Youth Panel" featuring a panel of trans youth speaking about their experiences as local activists in their schools and communities. Sponsored by Vancity. WHEN: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, Saturday, March 24th, 2018 WHERE: B150 - Bob Wright Centre HOW MUCH: FREE for all conference registrants. Open to the public by donation. Jocelyn Baker Jocelyn Baker co-leads the Pride Alliance at St Michaels University School in Victoria (SMUS), a club that advocates for transgender rights and supports LGBTQ individuals in SMUS and in the local community. She has worked to create more inclusive facilities for transgender students at her school such as adopting non-gender-specific uniforms and creating more gender-neutral bathrooms. Jocelyn has educated SMUS on the rights of transgender students and helped faculty understand how to include them. She also founded SMUS' Debate Workshops, which teach students civil discourse skills, fostering open-mindedness and discussion. In her free time, Jocelyn enjoys reading and hiking Mount Douglas. Danny Charles My name is Danny. I am a female to male transgender. Pronouns are he/him. I love to sing, paint, and write! Jay Jay is a Canadian transgender teenager. He started his transition over 5 years ago and during that time has sat on panels geared towards the LGBTQ+ community, in Canada and the USA. Tru Wilson Tru Wilson is an articulate and bold fourteen-year-old transgender advocate from Vancouver, BC. Tru first made headlines when she filed a human rights complaint against her local Catholic school board for not supporting her transition, which resulted in the first known policy in any Catholic school in North America supporting a child's transition. Since then, Tru has become a proud and voracious speaker for trans rights, and in 2015 was recognized by Vancouver Magazine as one of the city's 50 most powerful and influential people. In 2016, she was named Options for Sexual Health’s Sexual Health Champion, and in 2017 her entire family was nominated to be grand marshals is the Vancouver Pride Parade. Tru was also chosen to be a speaker at Vancouver’s 2017 TedX East Van event. Tru continues to share her story to educate and inspire others. Still a growing teen, Tru enjoys cosplay, drawing for hours and playing with her girlfriends next door.
MTHF18 Elders Panel
MOVING TRANS HISTORY FORWARD 2018 CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://www.uvic.ca/mthf2018/ CHAIR IN TRANSGENDER STUDIES: https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php TRANSGENDER ARCHIVES: https://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ DONATE: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/transchair “The Elders Panel" features a panel of trans elders providing live first-hand oral testimony about their experiences as elders of trans activism. WHEN: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM, Sunday, March 25th, 2018 WHERE: B150 - Bob Wright Centre HOW MUCH: FREE for all conference registrants. Open to the public by donation. WHO: Christine Burns: “Rescuing Trans History” Miqqi Alicia Gilbert: “One Week A Year: The Pragmatic Reality of Self-Actualization” Aidan Key: “A Gender Odyssey: Aidan Key’s Journey to Leadership, Education & Activism” Maria Sundin: “Ending Forced Sterilization in Sweden” CHRISTINE BURNS "Rescuing Trans Histories" Christine was a key part of Britain’s ‘Press for Change’ campaign for transgender rights from 1993 until 2007, becoming one of the vice-presidents in 1996. This means that she was involved throughout the years when the organisation was at its peak and had a key role in many of the groundbreaking successes which occurred, culminating in the passage of the UK's Gender Recognition Act in 2004. She has written several books, including a two-part history of the PFC campaign, Pressing Matters. She also penned the first National Health Service policy guide relating to trans patients and staff. She is now editing an anthology-based history of Britain’s trans community. Christine lives in Manchester, England, officially retired in 2013, and concentrates most of her time doting on her grandchildren, researching her family’s ancestry, reading detective fiction, gardening and riding her bike. MIQQI ALICIA GILBERT "One Week a Year: The Pragmatic Reality of Self-Actualization" Miqqi Alicia Gilbert, Ph.D. aka Michael A. Gilbert, is Full Professor of Philosophy at York University, Toronto, Canada. Miqqi Alicia has published scholarly articles in gender theory including an essay in Hypatia in 2009, “Defeating Bigenderism.” S/he is a life-long cross-dresser and an activist in the transgender community. Miqqi Alicia has made a point of being out and public and has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines in Canada and the US, as well as interviews on radio and television. S/he has been the book review editor and regular columnist for Transgender Tapestry, a recipient in 2007 of an IFGE Trinity Award, and Director of Fantasia Fair for 8 years. S/he has presented workshops at numerous trans events including Fantasia Fair, Southern Comfort, Esprit, IFGE and First Event. Hir website is located at: http://gilbert.info.yorku.ca/. Hir newest book, Arguing with People, was published by Broadview Press in the spring of 2014. AIDAN KEY "A Gender Odyssey: Aidan Key’s Journey to Leadership, Education & Activism" Aidan Key is the founder of Gender Diversity, an organization dedicated to providing support and educational services with respect to the inclusion of transgender and gender-diverse children. Key has served as a consultant to dozens of school districts across the United States navigating the questions and concerns regarding transgender K-12 student inclusion. Key is the co-author of Gender Cognition in Transgender Children (Psychological Science 2015), the Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Transgender Student Advocacy and Support: Evolving Ethics in a Time of Devolving Policy (presented 2017: Philosophy of Education Society Annual Conference). He facilitates the nation’s largest network of parent support groups and offers trainings and policy development for schools, organizations, and other youth-based agencies across the nation. MARIA SUNDIN "Ending Forced Sterilization in Sweden" Maria Sundin is a senior Swedish trans activist, sexologist and clinical social worker. She has been involved in trans as well as LGBT organizations for the past 25 years. She is a member of the Innovative Response to Global Trans Women and HIV (IRGT). She also serves on the Steering Committee of The Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) and is a Board Member of Sweden's LGBTQ Social Democrats. Maria served for a long period as a Board Member of the Swedish Federation for LGBTQ Rights (RFSL) as well as a Co-chair and Executive Board Member of Transgender Europe (TGEU). She is also extensively involved in trans de-pathologisation, transgender human rights and combatting HIV in our community Stephen Whittle was previously scheduled but is no longer able to attend.See more videos from the Moving Trans History Forward 2018 playlist on YouTube.
Moving Trans History Forward 2016
Opening Ceremony: Moving Trans History Forward 2016
Moving Trans History Forward: Building Communities - Sharing Connections conference took place at the University of Victoria March 17-20, 2016. Trans and gender non-conforming (GNC) community-based scholars and activists, academics, archivists, librarians, family members, and allies of trans and GNC people will explore preserving and recounting the history of trans and GNC people and communities in all eras and regions of the world. Opening Ceremony: Madison Thomas: Transperson from the Esquimalt Nation Shelagh Rogers: Chancellor, University of Victoria Aaron Devor: Chair in Transgender Studies, Founder and Academic Director, The Transgender Archives Randall Garrison: Member of Parliament, Esquimalt — Saanich — Sooke Twitter: @TransArchives Facebook: UVicTransArchives Instagram: TransArchives YouTube: Transgender Archives Flickr: Transgender Archives @ UVic Sponsored by the Chair in Transgender Studies & The Transgender Archives and UVic. Video production & editing provided by Anna Malkin -- thank you!
Martine Rothblatt: Moving Trans History Forward 2016 Keynote
Moving Trans History Forward: Building Communities - Sharing Connections conference took place at the University of Victoria March 17-20, 2016. Events included: inspiring keynote speakers Martine Rothblatt and Jamison Green, oral presentations, posters, workshops, art exhibits, feature-length trans-themed film Two4One, and panel discussion with founders of trans activism and research. Martine Rothblatt Co-CEO United Therapeutics Keynote speaker Martine Rothblatt, PhD, Co-CEO of United Therapeutics, delivered a virtual keynote address based on her books From Transgender to Transhuman and Virtually Human and Virtually Human: The Promise—and the Peril—of Digital Immortality in which she lays out her vision for a future in which gender dimorphism becomes obsolete, human bodies become optional, and human consciousness has the potential to become immortal through advancements in artificial intelligence. The title of her talk is "From Transgender to Transhuman to Virtually Human." Rothblatt is a tremendously innovative and accomplished trans woman who has a stellar record of creating new advances that have enhanced the lives of people around the globe. She created Geostar satellite navigation, Sirius satellite radio, and United Therapeutics, which saves the lives of lung-disease sufferers and is working to create a limitless supply of organs for transplants. Introduction: Dr. Aaron Devor, Chair in Transgender Studies, Founder and Academic Director, The Transgender Archives Moving Trans History Forward: http://www.uvic.ca/mthf2016/index.php The Transgender Archives: http://www.uvic.ca/transgenderarchives/ Chair in Transgender Studies: http://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/
Jamison Green: Moving Trans History Forward 2016 - Keynote
Moving Trans History Forward: Building Communities - Sharing Connections conference took place at the University of Victoria March 17-20, 2016. Trans and gender non-conforming (GNC) community-based scholars and activists, academics, archivists, librarians, family members, and allies of trans and GNC people will explore preserving and recounting the history of trans and GNC people and communities in all eras and regions of the world. Keynote Speaker Jamison Green, President of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) speaks on Triumphs and Challenges for Transgender People around the World. Green is internationally known as a leader in transgender health, policy, law, and education. Author of the prize-winning book Becoming a Visible Man, he led FTM International 1991 to 1999. He has served on Boards of numerous trans* organizations and has appeared in over a dozen educational documentary films. His policy work has impacted governments and businesses throughout the world. He is one of the most widely-recognized trans* men in the world today. Twitter: @TransArchives Facebook: UVicTransArchives Instagram: TransArchives YouTube: Transgender Archives Flickr: Transgender Archives @ UVic Sponsored by the Chair in Transgender Studies & The Transgender Archives and UVic. Video production & editing provided by Anna Malkin -- thank you!See more videos from the Moving Trans History Forward 2016 playlist on YouTube.
Moving Trans History Forward 2014
Moving Trans* History Forward 2014 - Founders Panel
"Moving Trans* History Forward 2014" Transgender Archives Symposium Founders Panel University of Victoria March 23, 2014
Transgender Archives Symposium: Stephanie Castle
"Moving Trans* History Forward 2014" #MTHF14 Transgender Archives Symposium Founders Panel - Stephanie Castle University of Victoria March 23, 2014
Transgender Archives Symposium: Rikki Swin
"Moving Trans* History Forward 2014" #MTHF14 Transgender Archives Symposium Founders Panel - Rikki Swin University of Victoria March 23, 2014See more videos from the Moving Trans* History Forward 2014 playlist on YouTube.