Erin GallagherCohoon

PhD candidate. Historian of sexuality and the family. Feminist. Queerspawn. She/her. Profile pic by Orion Ibert @LavenderLem

[Erin GallagherCohoon @SaidInHistory]

I'm withdrawing from participating @federation_hss @mcgillu and have refused a graduate merit award. This would have been my last presentation(s) as a grad student and I was excited to be on two amazing panels but I stand in solidarity with the calls to @boycott_FHSS.

[Erin GallagherCohoon @SaidInHistory]

Started this week with a rejection letter, ending this week with my dissertation being uploaded online. What a relief to be here, but so many more histories of queer families to write! https://t.co/NXNXJhpW1B #CdnHistory #FamilyHistory #QueerHist

[Erin GallagherCohoon @SaidInHistory]

This. So much this. I am boycotting Congress in support of the @AMPL/AMPD strike and the pro-Palestine student encampment but as a grad student it has come at a cost I can ill afford. So much love to grad students and precariously employed academics who are struggling with this.

[Vanessa Vigneswaramoorthy (vaxxed) @vandoesthings]

I have hesitated to share these thoughts because I’m not one who is very comfortable with attention, but I feel it necessary to bring to attention anxieties I’ve had regarding the upcoming #FHSS Congress, mutual aid, and the most marginalized in academia (very long)

[LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory @LGBTQHistory]

📣 REMINDER: Join us Oct 2 for a thought-provoking roundtable on Trans Histories in Canada and Germany with this incredible panel of speakers! 🇨🇦🇩🇪🏳️‍⚧️
📍See 🔗in bio for details. #CommunityEvent #TransHistory #UofT

[Dr. Kristopher Wells @KristopherWells]

A clear consensus that the current “parental rights” movement in Canada is based in an anti-2SLGBTQ+ ideology. #cdnpoli

https://t.co/ipFNbTbJAL

[Dr. Samuel Gillis Hogan @Thaumatomane]

@SaidInHistory has written a piece about her PhD research into the history of queer families/parenting in Canada & how “parental rights” have been used as a dog whistle and to attack the LGBTQ+ community. This is not new.
@LGBT @ContraPoints @CdnPressNews
https://t.co/sntm5v0WMW

[Carla Pascoe Leahy @C_PascoeLeahy]

I’ve been thinking about the ethics of sharing difficult material with audiences, as I present research on how climate crisis is impacting mothers & potential mothers. Who has been writing about how to take care of listeners when we present sensitive research?

[Erin GallagherCohoon @SaidInHistory]

Are there any #CdnHist #historians using @CBCRadioCanada archival sources? I cannot for the life of me figure out how to find 1970s-1980s news stories I am seeing referenced in other sources. Help? #twitterstorians

[Journal of the History of Sexuality @JHistSex]

#CfP: We want your submissions! Send us your unpublished original work on histories of sexuality - all time periods, all geographies. We love it all! #HistSex
https://t.co/9qbGTqLfLo

[LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory @LGBTQHistory]

Myron Demkiw, who was a member of the squad that carried out the Pussy Palace raid, was recently appointed to Toronto Chief of Police. This raises concerns about what this means for LGBTQ+ and other marginalized communities.

To read more, links for articles are in our bio!

[Erin GallagherCohoon @SaidInHistory]

#Twitterstorians I'm working with students on rough drafts of their research papers and I want to point them to some examples of well-written introductions. What is your all-time favourite introduction to a history essay? #HistFam class but open to any suggestions!

[Journal of the History of Sexuality @JHistSex]

Very excited to announce that issue 31.3 is now online! Find it on our site and Project Muse. Physical copies are shipping soon if you're eagerly waiting by your mailbox. https://t.co/2vFepIdc8t Articles by Meg Weeks, @AoH826, @wmstell, @NicJohnRamos and Alex Burnett

[Erin GallagherCohoon @SaidInHistory]

@jburnford As a current PhD candidate, my concern is not that it's going to take me 6 yrs to complete, but that universities aren't funding their grad students adequately/for long enough. I doubt I'd be able to do my project in 4 yrs. Which projects do we lose if we don't give PhDs time?

[Alicia Elliott - AND THEN SHE FELL out now! @WordsandGuitar]

What I hate about Truth & Reconciliation Day is how the government and politicians, who have power to make real change, have encouraged everyday Canadians to think reconciliation is achieved through individual capitalist consumption. Buying orange shirts and donuts, for example.

[Indian Residential School Survivors Society @IRSSurvivor]

IRS Crisis Lines Available:
IRSSS Toll-Free Line: 1-800-721-0066
24-Hour National Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419
KUU-US Crisis Line: 1-800-588-8717
Tsow-Tun-Le Lum: 1-888-403-3123

[NCTR @NCTR_UM]

The topics discussed during Truth and Reconciliation Week can be very difficult for Survivors, their families and communities.

For immediate support, 24/7, Survivors and their families are encouraged to contact the National Residential Schools Crisis Line at: 1-866-925-4419

[Erin GallagherCohoon @SaidInHistory]

Family are the ones we share dust with - "after years of living as family, dust binds us. I think of the hugs hello and goodbye; the proximity of bodies who know each other... passing and repassing the same intimate, domestic spaces, shedding skin and hair and fingernails."

[Prairie Fire Magazine @PrairieFireMag]

Have you seen our summer issue? We're in love with the cover from Tetro Design Inc.!
Snag a copy here: https://t.co/LByubZw7tU

@TetroDesign #CanLit #Litmag #summerissue

[Prairie Fire Magazine @PrairieFireMag]

Have you seen our summer issue? We're in love with the cover from Tetro Design Inc.!
Snag a copy here: https://t.co/LByubZw7tU

@TetroDesign #CanLit #Litmag #summerissue

[Erin GallagherCohoon @SaidInHistory]

@DanEricRohde @queenshistory @OsgoodeSociety @queensuResearch To you as well!

[David A. Robertson @DaveAlexRoberts]

The Durham District School Board has pulled The Great Bear from its libraries, and I’m shocked.

We need to be putting more books by Indigenous authors on the shelves, not taking them out.

This is an insult to teachers, librarians, and children. https://t.co/AYv1C9XcUs