Queer trans writer, historian, heritage practitioner, trainer, parent. Author of BEFORE WE WERE TRANS, a Lambda nominee and History Today book of the year. http://kitheyam.com
Kit Heyam (they/he)
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If you are in Leeds on 6 October, @krheyam.bsky.social and @helencfinch.bsky.social will be discussing with me People Without History Are Dust
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A total pleasure to celebrate this excellent book with Justin and Matt! ☺️
1/3 If you've read about the University of Sussex penalising Kathleen Stock for speaking out about biological sex, and being fined for it, this was disinformation. Now that the High Court has decided please read this corrective:
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This is such a good read!!!
Join me in Leeds for A Queer Scrapbook: Book Launch, Conversation and Scrapbooking Workshop with Matt Cook hosted by @krheyam.bsky.social . See you soon!
Date: Wed 22nd April 2026
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: @thebookishtype.bsky.social 77a Great George Street, LS1 3BR
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I wrote about @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social's essential new book, and the importance of strategic pluralism, dealing with defeat, and talking to our elders, for @redpeppermag.bsky.social:
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
(no, I can't pronounce most places in the US...this post comes from a place of love I promise 😅💜)
This is brilliant, but also I am especially delighted to have my first @michaelhobbes.bsky.social mispronunciation to complain about...WHY-GAN?! As in Orwell's The Road to Why-Gan Pier? I know I'm supposed to hate Wigan as a Boltonian but it doesn't deserve this 😆
