New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity

Kit Heyam is Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Kit is the author of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender (2022), and multiple publications on trans-inclusive HE/heritage practice including Gendering Material Objects in Heritage Practice (2023). Jon Ward is Lecturer in Race and Diversity Studies at King’s College London, UK. Jon is the founder of The Abolitionist Curriculum, an open-access resource which centres engagement with the multiplicities of Blackness, and has written multiple publications discussing Blackness, gender and nation within popular culture .

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Homeless at Home, Jon Ward and Kit Heyam
Chapter 1: Learning from Different Approaches to Gender Nonconformity, Jass Thethi, Rudy Loewe and Eva Cheuk-Yin Li
Chapter 2: Getting on with Life: Nonconformity, Recognition, and Assimilation in UK Trans Activism, 1970-2023, Rebecca Jane Morgan
Chapter 3: Remembering Jennie Moore, Nic Aaron and Jeanie Sinclair
Chapter 4: ‘It is a Thing One Knows Not How to Name’: Embodied and Material Vocabularies of Gender in Early Modern England, SL Grange and E.M. Parry
Chapter 5: ‘Creatures in a Woman’s Chemise’: Unsilencing Non-White Race and Non-cis Gender in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, Nemo Martin
Chapter 6: In Defence of Doubt: Transgender History, Pedagogy, and the (Un)knowing Subject, Onni Gust
Conclusion: Forging A Home, Kit Heyam and Jon Ward
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