0.13. Before We Were Trans: A Convo with Kit Heyam

History is Gay by Leigh Pfeffer

Sep 13, 202235:44Society & Culture

For this bonus episode, Leigh sat down with Dr. Kit Heyam, university lecturer, queer history activist, and trans awareness trainer, about their new book, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender . We talked about g...

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