Southern Trans History Talk

Trans History is Southern History. This pride month Join Invisible Histories on June 17th, 2025, at 6:00pm CST to learn about and celebrate the history of trans identity and gender noncomfortiy in the Deep South! This talk will cover indivudals, protests, historic events, and give examples from the Invisible Histories archives. We will also talk about how to start documenting your own trans history of today!

About Invisible Histories

Invisible Histories focuses on four key elements related to advancing LGBTQ Southern History:

Community Engagement
Archiving, Preservation, Research & Scholarship
Education
Professional Development & Best Practices

Invisible Histories acts as an intermediary between institutions, organizations, and everyday folks. We strive to break barriers between organizations and their local communities to ensure that preservation and research exist in a co-productive and relationship centered way. In addition to direct collection and preservation, Invisible Histories is invested in providing scholars with direct access to materials as well as creating a network of people conducting LGBTQ Southern archiving, preservation, education and research to make scholarship more accessible. We focus on providing education around the Queer South to those within and outside the region through speaking, exhibiting, online materials, and publications. Finally, Invisible Histories seeks to help develop a new generation of scholars working in the Queer South as well as work alongside other professionals in the field to develop best practices for this work.

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