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Arran Rees — 2 years ago

I was listening in on a lunchtime lecture today at the Science Museum. The SMG Gender and Sexuality Network are running a series of seminars throughout January, and one today happened to look gender, gender nonconformity and woollen hats. Kit Heyam is one of the authors of the Gendering the Museum toolkit, and talked through the story of the gender ascribed to hats in Medieval England. The case of the gendered hat, and the scandals of the people who were assigned female-at-birth who wore hats during this period are accounted for in this report: https://kitheyam.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/final-gendering-the-museum-toolkit.pdf (pages 6-9).