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The DIGS Lab and McGill’s Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technology Speaker Series will be hosting Dr. Avery Dame-Griff to discuss his new book. The Two Revolutions explores how the rise of the internet shaped transgender identity and activism from the 1980s to the present. Dame-Griff traces the digital networks of transgender activists, cross-dressing computer hobbyists, and others interested in gender nonconformity who incited the second revolution of the title: the ascendance of “transgender” as an umbrella identity in the mid-1990s. Through a history of how trans people online exploited different digital infrastructures in the early days of the internet to build community, Dame-Griff explores a crucial part of trans history—illuminating how we arrived at our contemporary moment and what lessons this history can offer in a moment of moral panic.