At the end of 2021, a six-part Transistorie podcast on “What it means to be trance” was published under the banner of the Anxiety Institute. has a history of who Johana Nejedlová spoke to on the podcast. Jamie Rhodes is an activist and PhD candidate in English-speaking literature at the Charles University School of the Arts. On her Transistorie podcast, she traced queer history from the Middle Ages, but most focused on Anglo-American trans history from the 19th century to the present day.
Why was it important to map migration history?
It was essential for me in the long run. It’s about how history is passed on in the queer and trans communities. In heterosexual communities, history is replayed in traditional ways from generation to generation. Parents can learn history by telling their children. In a queer context, this is generally and universally lacking. There is always a new generation of queer people, so the old are forgotten, people in the community often don’t know where they come from, and previous generations were dealing with the same long ago The turning point for me was when I read the comic book Lesbians to watch. Alison Bechdel, probably written by the author from the end of the 70s. When I read it, I found that people back then were dealing with the same things we’re always dealing with and keep forgetting them. Not covered much. Contact with previous generations does not work ideally in the queer community. It is therefore important to map this history.
Where do the queer experiences that don’t go down in history disappear?
It is also a division within the queer community in general. The history of transgender people was often swept under the carpet of homosexuality. There are many people who have come. To include it under a purely lesbian life was an extreme simplification with a political purpose at the time, but as a result the history of transition was lost under homosexuality.
Want to take a deeper look into history?
The point, of course, is that we need to ask who could have recorded history in the first place. Marginalized groups never had the chance to do so. However, when we turn to archaeology, the discovery of “male” skeletons with objects normally given to women is often, and still happens today, interpreted as a mistake or a manifestation of homosexuality. .
Trans people existed and lived in communities. When we look at cultures in which pre-Christian practices remain, we see identities outside of gender dichotomies on a sort of transpole. The big change, of course, was not the only one, but it came with the advent of Christianity, which had a lot to do with the construction of gender binaries.
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