Red Emma’s

Vivian Blaxell grew up in rural Australia and co-founded Tiresias House, Australia’s first shelter and resource centre for and by trans people. Her essay "Nuclear Cats" was shortlisted for the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Jules Gill-Peterson is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of two books. Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) is the first book to shatter the myth that transgender children are a brand new generation in the twenty-first century. Uncovering a surprising archive dating from the 1920s through 1970s, Histories of the Transgender Child shows how the concept of gender relies on the medicalization of children's presumed racial plasticity, challenging the very terms of how we talk about today's medical model. A Short History of Trans Misogyny (Verso Books, 2024) explains the origins of the staggering violence faced by transgender women and authors a bold vision for a world freed from its ravages. The book chronicles how violence directed at trans femininity emerged out of state and police repression in a 200 year arc from British India to New York, to American military bases in the Philippines, and throughout Latin America. Focusing on Black, brown, Indigenous, and poor trans women’s survival, its chapters forward a bold vision of trans feminism that could break this centuries’ old structure of violence. Jules has also written for The New York Times, CNN, The Lily (by The Washington Post), Jewish Currents, The New Inquiry, The Funambulist, and more. Jules is currently working on a book entitled Transgender Liberalism (under contract with Harvard University Press), a new US history of practices of gender transition through the lens of class.