Chris Pihlak

Chris Pihlak

First Name: 
Chris
Last Name: 
Pihlak
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PhD Program (She/Her)
Biography : 

Chris 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://bsky.app/profile/chrisapihlak.bsky.social

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Social histories of trans existence, Transfeminine sub-cultures, transfeminine periodical networks, transfeminine porn studies, transfeminine sex-work, normativity, desirability, and respectability as they relate to 20th-century trans existences.

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Dissertation Supervisors: 
Elspeth Brown

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<p>Learn more about Chris Pihlak, a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.</p>