Upcoming workshop at Together for Change 2025
I will be co-presenting a workshop at The Enchanté Network’s Together for Change Conference in Ottawa on Wednesday, 15 October 2025 with Jade Nelson.
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Nico Mara-McKay
Project Management | Strategic Storytelling | Community Engagement
Nico Mara-McKay
Project Management | Strategic Storytelling | Community Engagement
Author: Nico Mara-McKay
New digital exhibition at The ArQuives
I’m pleased to announce the launch of the digital exhibition Community Ties: Our Future Together / Liens communautaires : Notre avenir ensemble with The ArQuives: Canada’s 2SLGBTQIA+ Archives.
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Trans histories on Tilly’s Trans Tuesdays
I appeared as a guest on two episodes of Tilly’s Trans Tuesdays, a podcast hosted by Tilly Bridges and her wife, Susan Bridges.
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A pillar of queer history in Toronto
In 2019, I was hired by Heritage Toronto to write display copy about The ArQuives for a historical pillar. Then I kind of forgot about it.
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“Calling [Herself] Eleanor”: Translike Gender Presentation in Medieval Europe
Until relatively recently, historians did not consider transness a possibility for medieval people, as Eleanor Rykener’s case demonstrates.
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Why “transition” can be a fraught concept
Yesterday marked my fourth month on testosterone. After a few weeks, my voice was decidedly deeper. A month in, the increase in facial hair was noticeable, though it remains patchy. Now, after a few months, I can see the changes in fat distribution in my face as I begin to look more like me. This is not the beginning of my transition.
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