Jonah I. Garde

@jonahgarde.bsky.social

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trans* studies & histories, archives, cultural memory, colonialism and modernity. Banting Postdoctoral Fellow @UBC 2024-26. Falls in love with every dog. they/them. t4t always. "Trans* Geschichten der Moderne" out with transcript in 2025.

Book cover of Michael Water's The Other Olympians. Cover image shows Zdeněk Koubek, a trans athelete from Czechoslovakia.
Coaster with an alpine scenery print showing three alphorn players. Two drawn on speach bubbles read "Nobody knows I'm a transsexual" and "Me too."
Copy of Susan Stryker's When Monsters Speak
Screenshot of a powerpoint slide deck showing a still from the 1999 Backstreet Boys music video of their song "I want it that way" with the words "Tell me why..." written in bold front.
Screenshot from the online exhibition. The title reads "Photos of Emilie Kellner's apartment". Text and black and white headshot of Emilie Kellner who has her dark curly hair tied back and is wearing earrings, a necklace, and a dark cardigan or blouse with an embroidered pattern.
The actress Lareine is pictured standing in front of a vanity mirror. She is wearing a sequin dress and her arms and neck are draped with a feather boa. She has short curly hair. The mirror shows her flat chest. This film still is taken from Mystery of Sex, a 1933 sexual enlightenment movie, and reappears in the 2023 documentary Forbidden Desires produced by the Austrian public broadcaster ORF.
Image of an assignment sheet. In the top corner is a picture of the FTM Trans Pride group marching in San Fransisco's Pride Parade in 1994.
Image of a syllabus. The header is a picture of a feminist protest in Switzerland. Protesters are holding banners that say "Kämpfe verbinden" (connect fights) und "Feminismus ist grenzenlos" (feminism without borders).