Showcasing a recent publication on writing trans histories in the Roman Empire

Ky Merkley (University of Illinois Urbana-Champlain), a founding member of Trans in Classics, has recently published an article in Gender & History on the challenges and opportunities faced by classicists and trans historians in writing about gender in Roman pre-modernity. Exploring the complex problems with balancing the vastness of the social system of gender against individual performances of gender identity, they ultimately issue "a call for trans historians to unabashedly write histories that care for and nourish trans lives".

You can read the article, which is open access, here.