The Collection
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Book "Trans: A Memoir" By Juliet Jacques
MOT000139
Tag Juliet was the first transgender person I knew. I admired her djing and then her inspiring Guardian transition diary.
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- "Trans - A Memoir" book and tag. Hardback book & tag "Trans - A Memoir" by Juliet Jacques. Published by Verso 2015. Dust cover with black background with white hand drawn outline portrait of a woman & lettering (title & author). to Cabinet of Curiosity
- Dimensions
- Height 14.5 cm Width 3 cm Depth 21.5 cm
Dust cover of the book "TRANS A Memoir" by Juliet Jacques. The cover is a black background with white hand drawn outline portrait of a person with shoulder length hair.
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Book - 'Shaped'
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/028
Tag This book about accepting and loving yourself was written over lockdown by me and my new friend. It was a project we could work on virtually and feel close/part of a community.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 150 mm Width 150 mm Depth 5 mm
A small book entitled "shaped". The cover is white and shows a green triangular shaped cartoon character outlined in black. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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Book - Trans*(verse) With Bookmarks And A Painting
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/014
Tag Tag 1 - 'AFTERMATH' - ASH BROCKWELL FROM 2019 'TRANSVERSE' EXHIBITION AT THE ART HOUSE, SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 2019 - I MADE THIS IN THE AFTERMATH OF A HATE CRIME TARGETING THE TRANS MASC ACTORS OF A PLAY I HAD BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING. Tag 2 - 'YOUR AFAB DOES NOT ERASE ME' BY ASH BROCKWELL FROM 2019 'TRANSVERSE' EXHIBITION AT THE ART HOUSE, SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 2019. - NO LONGER HIDING BEHIND THE 'F' CURTAINS - COMING OUT AS MY TRUE SELF - A TRANS GUY. Tag 3 - 'SOMETIMES WAVING BUT MOSTLY DROWNING' - BY ASH BROCKWELL FROM 2019 'TRANSVERSE' EXHIBITION AT THE ART HOUSE, SOUTHAMPTON. - WE ARE MOSTLY DROWNING IN THE SEA OF SH*T THAT IS TRANSPHOBIC MEDIA. Tag 4 - 'TRANSVERSE: WE WON'T BE ERASED' - POETRY ANTHOLOGY (2019) EDITED BY ASH BROCKWELL AND PUBLISHED BY RECONNECTING RAINBOWS. ACCOMPANIES 3 PAINTINGS FROM TRANSVERSE EXHIBITION.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Publications, Artwork
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
The image shows a book titled “Trans*(verse): WE WON’T BE ERASED!" featuring poetry.
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Booklet 'Inclusivity: Supporting BAME Trans People'
MOT/2024/LTMLTS/009
Tag COLLAGE BY XAVIER (II) & SABAH --------------------------------------------------- FROM INSIDE COVER OF: 'INCLUSIVITY: SUPPORTING BAME TRANS PEOPLE' (2016)
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- Collection
- Letter To My Little Trans Self
- Category
- Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 21 cm Width 15 cm Depth 0.5 cm
The image shows a booklet titled "Inclusivity," supporting BAME trans people, with a tag.
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Booklet 'Teach Me What It Takes To Be Proud'
MOT/2024/NDOTC/EDIN/043
Tag I am a photographer who used this project to explore and commemorate my feelings throughout my transition.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Zines, Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 290 mm Width 205 mm Depth 5 mm
Booklet entitled "Teach me what it takes to be proud." The cover image is a close up of someone raising their right arm, taken from behind. Also a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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Booklet 'The Great Makeover'
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LEED/027
Tag I was Liverpool Queen of Culture in the period of the city's Capital of Culture projects 2006-8. This is a collection of specially written poetry and photographs of a royal visit to the new Liverpool One development, published in 2006
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 297 mm Width 210 mm Depth 5 mm
A booklet titled "The Great Make-over" features a person in colorful, elegant attire. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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Booklet - Laviots High Holy Days Anthology
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/041
Tag High Holy Day Anthology from Laviot, queer Jewish womens group in London, from 2021
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 210 cm Width 148 cm Depth 5 mm
Booklet, with a colourful drawn cover of fruits and leaves, entitled "Laviot's High Holy Days Anthology" " Amplifying LGBT+ voices in 5782". With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/042
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Booklet - Queer Talmud Nerd; Folder Of Hebrew Language Information and Tools
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/042
Tag Study pack from Queer Talmud Project - camp. Svara. 2019. Ring made at Queer Talmud Project camp in 2019.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Religion, Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Bottle Opener MOT000134
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Brighton Pride 2014 bottle opener. Bottle opener, metal, made to look like a badge reading "2nd Trans Pride Brighton 2014". Blue, white, pink with attached ring on reverse. Has tiny scratches, fingerprints & surface dirt, rust on reverse.
Bottle opener, metal, made to look like a badge reading "2nd Trans Pride Brighton 2014". Blue, white, pink with attached ring on reverse.
- Bouquet Of Flowers MOT001003
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Memorial
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Pink, blue, and white rose bouqet with 9 tags. Large bouquet of pink, blue and white fake roses with the stems tied together with pink, blue and white ribbons. There are nine tags hanging from the bouquet. Four have printed stickers that say "Trans Rights Now", "Let Trans Youth Bloom" and "Don"t Support Terfs". Two have handwritten messages by the donor "Trans Liberation Now!" and "Rest in Peace Brianna" (with a attached small photograph of Brianna Ghey).
A bouquet of flowers which are fake roses in trans flag colours, tied up with the same coloured ribbons.
- Box Of 10 Vials MOT000006
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Box of vials. Clear plastic box of over 10 used small glass vials which have been broken open, contained hormone medication. Box sealed with masking tape. Visual check only, box not opened.
- Dimensions
- Height 80 mm Width 30 mm Depth 50 mm
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
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Box Of Sustanon Ampoule
MOT000180
Tag 14.11.16 Hey Guys! This was my first ever vial of Sustanon. (kind of). My nurse refused to use it, as she didn't trust my source! The 48 hour delay for my T-Shot, felt like 48 years! However; 8 months later, I've never been happier! PARKER MYERS
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Hormones, Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Brown box containing box of Sustanon ampoule. Brown cardboard box containing quantity of polystyrene packing "curls" surrounding box for Sustanon 250mg 1 x 1ml ampoule. Sustanon box prescribed to Parker Myers 29/03/16, contains glass ampoule which is intact. Appears that larger box has been used to display Sustanon box, quantity of dressmaking pins stuck through polystyrene & round smaller box to position it on plastic mount. Box not investigated fully due to hazard from pins.
- Dimensions
- Height 7 cm Width 2.7 cm Depth 5.5 cm
Front of a box of Sustanon.
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