Aino Pihlak
First Name:
Aino
Last Name:
Pihlak
Email :
aino.pihlak@mail.utoronto.ca
Title:
PhD Program (She/Her)
Biography :
Aino Pihlak is a trans woman and emerging social historian who studies past articulations of trans feminine existence. In addition to her interest in trans feminine porn studies, she is a scholar of twentieth-century, Anglophone, and overwhelmingly white, trans feminine subcultural periodical networks. She hopes her analyses of the complexities and messiness of past trans lives honours those who built the path she now walks on.
Education:
MA, History, The University of Victoria
BA, History & Political Science, The University of Ottawa
Personal Website:
https://ainopihlak.com/
People Type:
Areas of Interest:
Social histories of trans existence, Trans feminine sub-cultures, trans feminine periodical networks, trans feminine porn studies, trans feminine sex-work, normativity, desirability, and respectability as they relate to 20th-century trans existences
Program:
Cohort:
1st Major:
Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
1st Minor:
Histories of Erotica
2nd Minor:
Critical Public Histories of Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
Dissertation Title:
“Delicate Sisterhood/ Durable Borders: The Texture of Existence in 20th -Century North American Straight Trans Feminine Subcult
Dissertation Supervisors:
Dr. Elspeth Brown
