Dr Kit Heyam (they/them or he/him) is a Leeds-based freelance writer, heritage practitioner, trans awareness trainer and academic. Kit is available to discuss work in any of these areas: Trans awareness training : conversational, interactive sessions where ‘stupid questions’ are welcome, tailored to the practical realities of your workplace

I’m a non-binary trans person based in Leeds. I’m a freelance trans awareness trainer and heritage practitioner, a writer and an academic. My pronouns are they/them or he/him. I grew …

Kit Heyam: freelance queer heritage practitioner and consultant with experience in participatory projects, walking tours, and curating exhibitions.

Kit Heyam is a writer, academic, and activist specializing in queer history and heritage, as well as a trans awareness trainer. They live in Leeds, UK, with their partner Alex and their child.

2022年9月13日 · Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans offers a series of case studies of what Heyam terms 'trans history' across the globe, from seventeenth-century West African female kings to contemporary South Asian hijra to figures like Jemima Wilkinson, who rose from their deathbed as the genderless Public Universal Friend in 1776 and preached Quaker ideology ...

2024年9月24日 · Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam chronicles expressions of trans experience that are often left out of the historical record. Drawing on their own experience of transition and gender nonbinarism, Heyam reveals that what constitutes a man, a woman, or gender itself has continually ...

2023年5月25日 · Before We Were Trans is a history and celebration of gender in all its fluidity, ambiguity and complexity. Kit Heyam is a university lecturer, a queer history activist, and a trans awareness...

Kit Heyam: interdisciplinary scholar who develops new approaches to transgressive gender and sexuality in historical literature and culture.

Kit Heyam is a writer, a university lecturer, a queer history activist and a trans awareness trainer who has worked with organisations across the UK. They have been committed to queer history since their teens, when they found the sense of community they were lacking by identifying with queer figures from the past.