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Assigned 9/4/25 Assigned 9/4/25

A Clippings Scrapbook: Lou Sullivan, Jack Garland, and the Search For Trans Liberation in the Writings of Those Before Us

In the 1970s, a young trans man dug through newspapers and history to unearth the life and times of Jack Bee Garland, Thirty years later, a team of archivists did the same with his own story.

Assigned 8/7/25 Assigned 8/7/25

A Clippings Scrapbook: The Trans Man Who Shaped Rowing and the Trailblazers We Bury Along The Way

In the 1930s, the scrappy young leader of the Oxford womens’ rowing team almost single-handedly propelled the women’s side of the sport into respectability. Nearly a hundred years later, the kind of man he would later become would be banned from the exact same team.

Assigned 7/1/25 Assigned 7/1/25

A Clippings Scrapbook: Pride Month, Marsha P. Johnson, and The Eternal Recurrence of Trans Erasure

On July 3, 1992, the body of trans activist Marsha P. Johnson was found floating in the Hudson. Thirty-three years later, the trans community still finds itself at the end of a gun.

Assigned 5/31/25 Assigned 5/31/25

A Clippings Scrapbook: Obscenity Laws, The Comstock Act, and the Complicated Legacy of Virginia Prince

People trying to suppress queer people with obscenity laws is nothing new, this long standing tactic has been repeatedly weaponized against us and anyone else bigots decide isn’t fit for public life.

Assigned 5/2/25 Assigned 5/2/25

A Clippings Scrapbook: Irene Clyde And Gender In The UK

One hundred years prior to the UK Supreme court decision to cease recognition of trans men and women as their respective genders, one writer spoke on the abolition of gender.

Assigned 3/31/25 Assigned 3/31/25

A Clippings Scrapbook: Passports

In 1925, the first passport ever issued to a woman without her husband's last name on it was sent to Doris Fleischman. One hundred years later, hundreds of trans folk lost theirs,