The Collection
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Woodcut Portrait With Paint Splatters
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BIRM/006
Tag A Target used in an arts display against UAL London, Camberwell Colledge of Arts. Their Polocies Regarding Gender Marker, legal Names, & other polocies almost left 2 students homeless. The walls, floors, & people ended up painted like this target. Loophole (Artist) gifted it to me on christmas on a christmass gift. (I Love Him)
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Artwork
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 220 mm Width 135 mm Depth 3 mm
Woodcut portrait with paint splatters and associated tag in whitebox.
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Wooden Carved Mushroom
MOT/2024/NDOTC/EDIN/031
Tag Wooden mushroom, handmade Winter 2020, with the help of a lover who was the first person who told me I could be the gender I felt, I didn't need anyone else to say I was "trans enough"
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Family
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 100 mm Width 80 mm Depth 80 mm
A handmade wooden mushroom. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
- Writing Paper With Spoken Word MOT000046
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Artwork, Poetry
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Piece of spoken word on paper. Writing paper; piece of spoken word for a project. Written on a perforated note book spare page. This spoken word was performed in year 8 at school.
- Dimensions
- Height 30.5 cm Width 21.5 cm
"Why can't he see he is beautiful".
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Yellow GBC Bust Card
MOT/2024/TKDB/013
Tag Bustcards have all the details for what to do if you get arrested at a protest your rights, and solicitors' numbers. They're So vital for Trans Kids Deserve Better when doing direct action
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- Collection
- Trans Kids Deserve Better
- Categories
- Trans Kids Deserve Better, Printed Ephemera
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 75 mm Width 105 mm Depth 1 mm
A yellow "Bust Card" from Green and Black Cross detailing a persons rights around Stop and Search and contact details for further advice. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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Yellow Hoody - 'The Tin Wardrobe'
MOT/2024/NDOTC/CARD/014
Tag THE COLOUR YELLOW APPEARS ALOT IN OUR BRANDING DESPITE MY HATRID FOR THE COLOUR. I FIND BRIGHT COLOURS HARD TO LOVE. I'M SO USED TO BEING A BLACK CLOUD IN THE SEA OF RAIBOW HAIRED, COLOURFUL QUEERS. MY QUEERNESS IS SO RARELY 'VISIBLE' BECAUSE I'M LUCKY NOW TO PASS AS MALE I GUESS, AND BECAUSE, FOR ME AT LEAST, MY PERSONAL LIFE AND LOVE AND GENDER IS NOT THERE TO BE PUT ON [Continues on rear of tag] DISPLAY OR BROADCAST TO THE WORLD. THE WORLD, AS I HAVE LEARNED CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH SUCH VUNERABILITY. BUT I'M TRYING WITH MY CHARITY WORK I'M TRYING TO BE BOLDER, BRIGHTER AND MORE VISIBLE FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS WHO ARE IN THE BACKGROUND LIKE ME BUT NOT BY CHOICE. MOT/CTDOV/002.7
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Width 710 mm Depth 3 mm
A yellow sweatshirt with rolled up sleeves and "THE TIN WARDROBE" printed on the breast, on a wooden hanger.
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Yellow Tweezers
MOT/2024/NDOTC/NORW/010
Tag I personally have dysphoria around body hair, and have used these when epilating is too painful. I pick my skin as a result of my dysphoria, and these have honestly caused a lot of damage to the skin on my thighs. I'm moving onto IPL which is less harmful and hopefully better.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Bathroom / Beauty
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 9.5 cm Width 0.7 cm
The image shows a cardboard tag with handwritten text and a pair of yellow tweezers on white background.
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Yorkshire Trans Choir: Lyrics and Name Strips
MOT000991
Tag The saddest part of these names is all of the unknowns, and not knowing if some are deadnames
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- Collections
- Main Collection, Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland
- Category
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- "Tower of Strength" painted lyrics and name strips. Printed lyrics "Tower of Strength" and three bundles of small strips of paper with names on them donated at the Museum of Transology"s 8th Birthday & Trans Pride UK launch, held at the Triangle LGBTQIA+ Cultural Centre, Deptford, and Bishopsgate Institute (11-12 February 2023). The strips of paper record the names of trans people who died in 2021 and 2022. They were stuck to candles. The lyrics were sung by the choir at a vigil. Tag reads "The saddest part of these names is all of the unknowns, and not knowing if some are deadnames".
Plastic sleeve containing a bundle of small strips of paper, a poem titled "Tower of Strength", several white strips of paper, and a brown tag.
- You Passed! Rainbow Star Of David Inside MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/045
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Greeting Cards, Religion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 177 mm Width 126 mm Depth 2 mm
The greetings card that says "YOU PASSED!" inside a blue and green rosette with a yellow ribbon on a background of geometric lines and coloured stars and circles.
- Zakkiya Khan: Framed Self Portrait MOT000598
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Photographs
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Framed colour portrait of Zakkiya Khan.
- Dimensions
- Height 28 cm Width 22 cm
Framed colour portrait of Zakkiya Khan who has a red top on, pink jacket and pink tie.
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Ze/Hir Pronoun Badge
MOT/2024/NDOTC/EDIN/081
Tag A ze/hir pronoun pin made for me by my girlfriend in early 2020. I liked how unusual, even awkward, my using ze/hir pronouns was, and it was an important part of me exploring my gender.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Badges
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 41 mm Width 41 mm Depth 5 mm
A small, round badge with black text"ze/hir" over a background in the trans pride colours. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
- Zsarday Forde Manequin and Coat MOT001162
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
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