Jess
@oncewilting.bsky.social
Queer historian of Atlantic Canada. PhD Candidate at York (thx SSHRC). She/her. SOGIESC educator and queer & trans+ activist. Chronic overcommitter and dissertation procrastinator.
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living in Kjipuktuk (HFX) & from Epekwitk (PEI)
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living in Kjipuktuk (HFX) & from Epekwitk (PEI)
I would gladly join any other robed technophobes looking to stand up against AI in the humanities
In today’s post Edward Dunsworth explores and critiques the use of AI in scholarship, academia, and the classroom.
Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
June 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I would gladly join any other robed technophobes looking to stand up against AI in the humanities
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“how people should protest the right way” is a parlor game played by people whose experience of protest is watching the news on tv
June 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“how people should protest the right way” is a parlor game played by people whose experience of protest is watching the news on tv
One striking quotation from the article shared here about how anti trans rhetoric is never in good faith
"Because the goal was never to improve care or protect children — it was to eliminate transgender people from public life entirely."
"Because the goal was never to improve care or protect children — it was to eliminate transgender people from public life entirely."
“you don’t exist” really isn’t a coherent position to argue from, but most people can’t admit to themselves that what they really believe is “i dislike you, and you make me uncomfortable, and that’s sufficiently valid for your compulsory suffering” because who’d want that flipped back at them? 😒
There's one quote in NYT's podcast about trans healthcare that perfectly illustrates what's wrong with how media organizations frame this kind of coverage. www.readtpa.com/p/the-quote-...
June 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
One striking quotation from the article shared here about how anti trans rhetoric is never in good faith
"Because the goal was never to improve care or protect children — it was to eliminate transgender people from public life entirely."
"Because the goal was never to improve care or protect children — it was to eliminate transgender people from public life entirely."
Read about some amazing pei trans history here!
Today’s post is a continuation of our Queering Atlantic Canada Series. Jess Wilton explores the life of Erica Rutherford in Prince Edward Island.
Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...
June 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Read about some amazing pei trans history here!
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What nonsense is this?
An equality and human rights commissioner telling a group of people that they must accept fewer rights?
This commission is not fit for purpose.
##TransRightsAreHumanRights
An equality and human rights commissioner telling a group of people that they must accept fewer rights?
This commission is not fit for purpose.
##TransRightsAreHumanRights
EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept perceived reduced rights
Akua Reindorf said law never permitted self-ID, but trans campaigners call remarks ‘profoundly unhelpful’
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
What nonsense is this?
An equality and human rights commissioner telling a group of people that they must accept fewer rights?
This commission is not fit for purpose.
##TransRightsAreHumanRights
An equality and human rights commissioner telling a group of people that they must accept fewer rights?
This commission is not fit for purpose.
##TransRightsAreHumanRights
Amazing panel on trans histories at CHA this year.
Great work from @jameyj.bsky.social, Renée Szematowicz, Elio Colavito, and @ainopihlak.bsky.social !
Great work from @jameyj.bsky.social, Renée Szematowicz, Elio Colavito, and @ainopihlak.bsky.social !
June 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Amazing panel on trans histories at CHA this year.
Great work from @jameyj.bsky.social, Renée Szematowicz, Elio Colavito, and @ainopihlak.bsky.social !
Great work from @jameyj.bsky.social, Renée Szematowicz, Elio Colavito, and @ainopihlak.bsky.social !
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Read our next post in the Queering Atlantic Canada series! Meredith J. Batt explores the history of St. John’s The Lighthouse.
Make sure to check out the rest of the series, edited by Jess Wilton @oncewilting.bsky.social
Make sure to check out the rest of the series, edited by Jess Wilton @oncewilting.bsky.social
A Beacon of Light: Hidden 2sLGBTQ+ Histories in Saint John’s The Lighthouse
by Meredith J. Batt Atlantic Canadian port cities have some of the most colourful and vibrant queer spaces and stories. Saint John, New Brunswick is no exception. In 2020, the first summer of the p…
activehistory.ca
May 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Read our next post in the Queering Atlantic Canada series! Meredith J. Batt explores the history of St. John’s The Lighthouse.
Make sure to check out the rest of the series, edited by Jess Wilton @oncewilting.bsky.social
Make sure to check out the rest of the series, edited by Jess Wilton @oncewilting.bsky.social
Do you know anybody working as a scholar, researcher, archivist, activist, or artist who might want to write about Atlantic Canada queer history? If so, send them my way!
#NS #PEI #NL #NB #queerhistory #canadaqueerhistory #AtlanticCanada
#NS #PEI #NL #NB #queerhistory #canadaqueerhistory #AtlanticCanada
April 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Do you know anybody working as a scholar, researcher, archivist, activist, or artist who might want to write about Atlantic Canada queer history? If so, send them my way!
#NS #PEI #NL #NB #queerhistory #canadaqueerhistory #AtlanticCanada
#NS #PEI #NL #NB #queerhistory #canadaqueerhistory #AtlanticCanada
Next article of the series out now! This convo with Sarah was so fun and I can't wait to see what they'll do next
Read about some cool Atlantic Canada queer history here and in the previous posts
Read about some cool Atlantic Canada queer history here and in the previous posts
@oncewilting.bsky.social sits down with Sarah Worthman, executive director of the NL Queer Research Initiative, to discuss her work on queer history in Newfoundland.
Read the article here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/04...
Read the article here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/04...
April 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Next article of the series out now! This convo with Sarah was so fun and I can't wait to see what they'll do next
Read about some cool Atlantic Canada queer history here and in the previous posts
Read about some cool Atlantic Canada queer history here and in the previous posts
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I am team “AI should not be used in any level of education” and this thread is super important.
Im seeing endless workshops on "how to use AI/incorporate AI in the classroom" etc, does anyone know of workshops on how to refuse AI?
Not even be critical of AI (which is often just one or two slides of handwaving-but-it-is-here) but to refuse it in the classroom and in our research?
Not even be critical of AI (which is often just one or two slides of handwaving-but-it-is-here) but to refuse it in the classroom and in our research?
March 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I am team “AI should not be used in any level of education” and this thread is super important.
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some gorgeous queer Black poetry to read for the last day of Black History Month and beyond <3
All titles are (as always!) available ✨for free✨in @libby.app with a QLL membership! Don’t have one? Sign up at queerliberationlibrary.org/members 💞
All titles are (as always!) available ✨for free✨in @libby.app with a QLL membership! Don’t have one? Sign up at queerliberationlibrary.org/members 💞
February 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
some gorgeous queer Black poetry to read for the last day of Black History Month and beyond <3
All titles are (as always!) available ✨for free✨in @libby.app with a QLL membership! Don’t have one? Sign up at queerliberationlibrary.org/members 💞
All titles are (as always!) available ✨for free✨in @libby.app with a QLL membership! Don’t have one? Sign up at queerliberationlibrary.org/members 💞
Someone asked me how it's possible to study queer history because "isn't it mostly based on rumours?"
Boy did I have some rough news to break about studying history in general
Boy did I have some rough news to break about studying history in general
February 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Someone asked me how it's possible to study queer history because "isn't it mostly based on rumours?"
Boy did I have some rough news to break about studying history in general
Boy did I have some rough news to break about studying history in general
Meredith J Batt and I will be on CBC Halifax at 440 today! Tune in to hear more about the Queering Atlantic Canada series
February 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Meredith J Batt and I will be on CBC Halifax at 440 today! Tune in to hear more about the Queering Atlantic Canada series
The reason the archives are so cold isn't to preserve the records.
It's actually because if historians were allowed to be warm while researching they would never leave and their articles would never be finished.
(Jokes, because obviously we historians aren't finishing their articles anyway)
It's actually because if historians were allowed to be warm while researching they would never leave and their articles would never be finished.
(Jokes, because obviously we historians aren't finishing their articles anyway)
February 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The reason the archives are so cold isn't to preserve the records.
It's actually because if historians were allowed to be warm while researching they would never leave and their articles would never be finished.
(Jokes, because obviously we historians aren't finishing their articles anyway)
It's actually because if historians were allowed to be warm while researching they would never leave and their articles would never be finished.
(Jokes, because obviously we historians aren't finishing their articles anyway)
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Getting nervous as heck about this talk 😬
but still looking forward to giving it! 😃
You can sign up to watch it online at the link below ⬇️
#cdnhist #envhist #envhum #histstm
but still looking forward to giving it! 😃
You can sign up to watch it online at the link below ⬇️
#cdnhist #envhist #envhum #histstm
Join us for “A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North” with Tina Adcock from SFU History. Discover the legacy of Canada's 'exploration' of the far north.
Feb 27 | 1 PM | In-person & Online
Info: a-cold-colonialism.eventbrite.ca
@sfufass.bsky.social @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social
Feb 27 | 1 PM | In-person & Online
Info: a-cold-colonialism.eventbrite.ca
@sfufass.bsky.social @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Not sure how to contact your MLA?
Find your representative here and then email or call
nslegislature.ca/members/prof...
#nspoli
Find your representative here and then email or call
nslegislature.ca/members/prof...
#nspoli
Contact an MLA
Complete contact information for current Members of the Legislative Assembly can be found on each member’s individual profile page, accessible from our current members page linked below. The profiles ...
nslegislature.ca
February 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Not sure how to contact your MLA?
Find your representative here and then email or call
nslegislature.ca/members/prof...
#nspoli
Find your representative here and then email or call
nslegislature.ca/members/prof...
#nspoli
Houston's government in NS is trying to pass a bill that will seriously threaten our democracy and move us closer to authoritarianism.
If you're terrified at what's happening in the US, this is the time to act. Fascism doesn't happen overnight, it's a slow erosion.
Contact your MLA.
If you're terrified at what's happening in the US, this is the time to act. Fascism doesn't happen overnight, it's a slow erosion.
Contact your MLA.
The always astute Tom Urbaniak of Cape Breton University: "We have a real case in Nova Scotia of an ailing democracy." His colleague David Johnson concurs: "It is an example of enormous and unwarranted executive overreach." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'Control-mania': N.S. premier accused of executive overreach with new bill | CBC News
Political observers and access to information experts say accountability and transparency may be affected under changes proposed by the Tim Houston government.
www.cbc.ca
February 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Houston's government in NS is trying to pass a bill that will seriously threaten our democracy and move us closer to authoritarianism.
If you're terrified at what's happening in the US, this is the time to act. Fascism doesn't happen overnight, it's a slow erosion.
Contact your MLA.
If you're terrified at what's happening in the US, this is the time to act. Fascism doesn't happen overnight, it's a slow erosion.
Contact your MLA.
Watching my SO's soccer game and she just made the most killer save. All the other soccer husbands watching their wives are jealous 😌
February 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Watching my SO's soccer game and she just made the most killer save. All the other soccer husbands watching their wives are jealous 😌
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It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame
February 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame
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I don’t mean to say that historical fiction can’t be criticized in terms of its presentation of history. But I think it’s a serious problem that far more public ink goes to critiquing novelists’ source work or directors’ casting decisions than the gutting of libraries, archives and history programs.
February 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I don’t mean to say that historical fiction can’t be criticized in terms of its presentation of history. But I think it’s a serious problem that far more public ink goes to critiquing novelists’ source work or directors’ casting decisions than the gutting of libraries, archives and history programs.
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Second post of the series!
Join Meredith J Batt and @oncewilting.bsky.social on a queer road trip through Atlantic Canada in today's post.
A Queer Road Trip through Atlantic Canada
by Meredith J Batt and Jess Wilton The queer history of Atlantic Canada is embedded in the region’s landscape and its people. As we guide you across the region exploring some queer nooks and cranni…
activehistory.ca
February 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Second post of the series!
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The fact is, Canada is deeply implicated in the same kind of fascist forces we see at play in the U.S. In fact, many of the alt-right thought leaders there are Canadians! So if you want to fight this you MUST root it out at home first, and nationalism isn't know for that kind of nuance. Do better.
February 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The fact is, Canada is deeply implicated in the same kind of fascist forces we see at play in the U.S. In fact, many of the alt-right thought leaders there are Canadians! So if you want to fight this you MUST root it out at home first, and nationalism isn't know for that kind of nuance. Do better.
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12 There is no neutrality. Non-commitment is a betrayal of the responsibility we owe our fellow humans and the living world. Study history. Form discussion groups. Organise. Slava Ukraini! Black Lives Matter. Women, Life, Freedom! Free Palestine! Vive le Canada !
February 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
12 There is no neutrality. Non-commitment is a betrayal of the responsibility we owe our fellow humans and the living world. Study history. Form discussion groups. Organise. Slava Ukraini! Black Lives Matter. Women, Life, Freedom! Free Palestine! Vive le Canada !