I have been attending quite a few academic confderences this year. Several of them have been queer history events, at which I have been talking about a project I have been undertaking in collaboration with my friend Professor Margarita Vaysman who is a lecturer in Russian Literature at Oxford. The work concerns the life of the 19th Century Russian trans man, Aleksandr Aleksandrov. Last year I wrote about some amazing third party accounts of Aleksandrov’s life which make his self-identification as a man abundantly clear. English translations of those accounts were published on the queer history blog, Notches.

I am pleased to report that those tranlsations have now found their way into the first ever issue of a new Academic Journal, Slavic Queer Studies. It is an open-access journal, and you can find the article, plus links to the rest of the issue, here.

While Notches is peer-reviewed, it tends to get a little less academic respect than actual journals, so I am very pleased to this actual publication to my name.

Assuming all goes well (and who knows what craziness the Tangerine Tyrant will come up with next), Margarita and I will also have a paper in Trans Studies Quarterly in January.