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David Waldron

David Waldron

Dr. David Waldron is an Associate Professor of History at Federation University Australia, specializing in folklore and community heritage.

Sep 15, 2026

JacobHOST
2:33
Could you please provide us with some context and also a bit of an update around sort of where it's at and where it came from?
2:39
Well, the notion first came to me via Sez Lothian, who was looking at wanting to put together a website talking about local queer history in relation to a number of other projects like Frolic and so on.
2:51
They came to me specifically because I've come across a lot of queer stories in terms of local history.
2:58
I've done a couple of podcast episodes on them, in particular Two Trans Men, Jack Jorgensen and Edward de Lacey Evans, which had quite famous stories.
3:07
And has a lot of features that became sort of quite interesting to me, one of which was, for instance, today we're in the midst of a moral panic about trans women.
3:17
The 19th century, trans women were considered quite a minor thing and it was trans men they were afraid of.
3:22
They were worried about, as they framed it, I'll see if I'll mirror the quotes they have today, that women might be infiltrating male spaces.

8 MINS LATER

KyleHOST
11:53
Where things end up being a bit messy

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