Here, I argue that the emergence of self-government in northern North America (Canada), as elsewhere in the British Empire, was deeply intertwined with the expansion of settler colonialism. The struggle for self-gov't was the struggle for settler colonialism itself.
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🚨🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨🚨
The 2026 Queer/Trans Histoy Conference is now ready for your registration!
See email sent on 3/3/26 for more details!
Join us 10 Mar 2026 at 5:30pm UK time for our next ONLINE only IHR History of Sexuality Seminar with @jaretthenderson.bsky.social
The Queer Work of Empire: Unnatural Sex and the Trans-Imperial Politics of Settler Self-Government
To sign up:
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Excited to join the folks @histsex.bsky.social on 10 March 2026 to chat about the regulation of unnatural sex and the bureaucratic work of empire in 1840s Canada, and how the generation of archives attempted to make queerness governable and governance unqueer.
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Here, I argue that the emergence of self-government in northern North America (Canada), as elsewhere in the British Empire, was deeply intertwined with the expansion of settler colonialism. The struggle for self-gov't was the struggle for settler colonialism itself.
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
“The instability and fragility of bisexuality as an identity category in this period means that limiting my analysis only to people who used the term for themselves would be unhelpfully restrictive.”
Martha Robinson Rhodes discusses “multiple-gender-attraction” in the latest for Broadsides #pride
“In 2025, when queer and trans people face a new wave of public scrutiny, legal surveillance, and violent erasure, Princess Seraphina’s story challenges the notion that queer lives were always hidden, always punished, and always alone.” 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Read more from Scott Terlouw in Broadsides' #pride series.
I wrote a piece for @thenacbs.bsky.social Pride Series on Queer Eschatology in William Burges’s designs at Cardiff Castle!
"At a time when visibility could carry profound risk, Seraphina’s presence in both courtroom and community shows that queer lives were legible, affirmed, and even protected." #pridemonth #lgbtqhist #queerhist
“Reconsidering the Lady Squatters within a truth-telling framework allows a deeper understanding to emerge: one that recognises the curious intersection of the economic, the imperial, and the queer.”
#pride #queerhist #lgbtqhist
for the month 🏳️🌈 that’s in it… a blog about archives and queer history; or, why I had to go to suburban Illinois to learn more about the life of a gay fella from east Belfast…
Be sure to follow the NACBS Broadsides series this month, starting with @jaretthenderson.bsky.social on the importance of queer and trans histories in an urgent present: www.nacbs.org/post/queer-a... #Pride #LGBTQHistory
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The excellent @jaretthenderson.bsky.social on the urgency of queer and trans histories in the here and now: www.nacbs.org/post/queer-a...
🏳️🌈Our #PrideMonth series starts today!🏳️⚧️
@jaretthenderson.bsky.social introduces a series of essays that “underscore the pressing need to engage with LGBTQ+ history, not just as an academic exercise, but as a crucial act of remembrance and resistance.”
Read it here: www.nacbs.org/post/queer-a...
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Happy Pride! Later this week @jaretthenderson.bsky.social kicks off a Broadsides series celebrating the rich & striking diversity of approaches to queer history in 2025.
In the meantime, take a moment to revisit his '23 piece on infamous crime clauses.
Stayed tuned for more! #pride #pridemonth
Please consider submitting a chapter abstract for our edited collection, Queering the Tensions of Empire.
Abstracts due: 31 May 2025.
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