Karen Duder, “Public Acts and Private Languages: Bisexuality and the Multiple Discourses of Constance Grey Swartz”, BC Studies, (Winter/hiver 2002/2003). In selecting this article from a pool of particularly strong nominations, the jury highlighted the essays originality, offering as it does a way to think about the complexity of sexual identity in the past. The jury was

Franca Iacovetta, The Sexual Politics of Moral Citizenship and Containing Dangerous Foreign Men in Cold War Canada, 1950s-1960s, Histoire sociale/Social History, 33 (November/novembre 2000). An important paper which explores postwar Canadian sexual norms within a complex framework that analyzes the intersections of race/ethnicity, class and gender. Becki L. Ross, Bumping and Grinding on the Line: Making Nudity Pay, Labour/Le

Jean Barman, “Aboriginal Women on the Streets of Victoria: Rethinking Transgressive Sexuality During the Colonial Encounter.” Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past, edited by Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005). In selecting the articles, the jury commended Barman for her sensitive recreation of both the sexual conflicts and possibilities

Marie-Aimée Cliche (UQAM). “Du péché au tramatisme: l’inceste, vu de la Cour des jeunes délinquants et de la Cour du bien-être social de Montréal, 1912-1965,” The Canadian Historical Review, 87 (June 2006).andTamara Myers (UBC). “Embodying Delinquency: Boys’ Bodies, Sexuality, and Juvenile Justice History in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 14 (October 2005). Cliche and

Patrick Dunae, Geographies of Sexual Commerce and the Production of Prostitutional Space: Victoria, British Columbia, 1860-1914”. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 19, 1(2008). The selection committee was particularly impressed by how Dunae deftly contextualized his rich historical study of prostitution in Victoria within the international literature on the ‘spatial turn,’ most evident in Dunae’s

Holly Karibo. “Detroit’s Border Brothel: Sex Tourism in Windsor, Ontario, 1945-60,” American Review of Canadian Studies 40 (September 2010).  Engaging and extending current theoretical writing on ‘borderlands,’ Karibo deftly analyzes a range of sources, from newspapers to police records, to map how divergent groups of people crossed Windsor’s liminal threshold to refashion what were always

Valerie Korinek, “‘We’re the girls of the pansy parade’: Historicizing Winnipeg’s Queer Subcultures, 1930s–1970,” Histoire sociale/Social History 45(May 2012). Blending archival sources and oral histories, Korinek maps Winnipeg’s historically changing queer subcultures over a period of four decades and, in doing so, situates queer subjects as significant players in the history of “a region noted for valorizing nuclear families,

Nicholas Giguère, “De la revue Le Berdache (1979-82) au bulletin À propos (1986-87): grandeurs et misères de la presse gaie militante au Québec”. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada Issue 52, no 2, 2014.  Giguère reads Le Berdache, a periodical linked to the Association pour les droits

Mona Gleason, “‘Knowing Something I Was Not Meant to Know’: Exploring Vulnerability, Sexuality, and Childhood, 1900-1950”. Canadian Historical Review 98, 1 (March 2017). Gleason makes an argument for “social age” as a useful category in the historical analysis of sexuality and, in doing so, stages an historiographical conversation between two different subfields: the history of children /

Ele Chenier. “Love-Politics: Lesbian Wedding Practices in Canada and the United States from the 1920s to the 1970s,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 27, no.2 (May 2018): 294-321. Ele Chenier’s essay is a complex and provocative historical investigation of same-sex wedding practices as a form of activism and love-politics, using a theoretical formulation drawn from Jennifer

Belinda Deneen Wallace, “Our Lives: Scribal Activism, Intimacy, and Black Lesbian Visibility in 1980s Canada. Journal of Canadian Studies 54, 2-3 (Spring 2020): 334-359. Dr. Belinda Wallace (University of New Mexico) offers a stimulating and generative journey into Black lesbian-feminist mobilization during the 1980s by focusing on Toronto’s first Black women’s newspaper, Our Lives, founded in 1986