While I was in Brighton for Trans Pride, Fox told me about an academic conference that was due to take place in the city in September. The title of the conference is “Life Stories, Histories and Differences” and, as you might guess, it is about queer histories. Fox and Lewis were planning to do a presentation about the My Genderation films. I offered them a paper too, and I’m delighted to say that we both got in. You can find more about the conference here.

As I was a bit late getting in, they don’t have the title of my paper on the website, but it will be “Their-stories: Interrogating gender identities from the past”. It will be about how we present the gender identities of people from the past in the history that we write.

The conference is on a Wednesday, so I guess it will be hard for most people to get to, but if you are interested attendance is only £25 (£15 for the unwaged). You can register here.

Oh, and this will give me an opportunity to try out a couple more Brighton restaurants in advance of World Fantasy.