![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, instead of starting with these (potentially more academic) texts, I have decided to begin my exploration of Trans history with the podcast Adventures in Time and Gender. 108).Īs can be seen in the Further Reading section of several of my previous posts, there are many published works regarding Trans history, such as Susan Styker’s Transgender History and Leslie Feinberg’s Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman. ![]() Harsin Drager goes on to describe this as a “project of finding community across time” (p. Indeed, Leslie Feinberg’s pamphlet Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time has Come was one of the key texts in the emergence of Trans Studies and within it, Feinberg outlines instances of gender nonconformity throughout human history in order to situate present day Trans people in a long line of gender expansive experiences.Īs noted by Emmett Harsin Drager in “After Trans Studies” ( which I read for my last theme), there is a tendency for Trans people to turn to history due to a “deep desire to find people in the past who may have looked and lived like us” (p. Trans history is a huge topic and one that has been central to Trans Studies since its inception. ![]()
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