The Collection
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Gap brand patterned pants
MOT000030
Tag SHARK PANTS! My "lucky" pants given as a gift by an ex-girlfriend . These have followed me through coming out as genderqueer, social and then physical transition.
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Gap brand patterned pants Cotton boxer pants & tag. Faded dark blue background with pattern of pink shark silhouette. Brand label "gap" size M.
A pair of dark blue boxer pants with a pattern of pink shark silhouettes
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Gel Breast Inserts With Box, Bag and Tag - Victoria's Secret
MOT000083
Tag I used these "chicken fillets" before I started hormones. It was a convenient way of shapeshifting quickly when I needed to! Jeanne D
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Bathroom / Beauty
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Victoria's Secret gel breast inserts with box, bag, and tag. Two pairs of gel breast shaping inserts & tag; inserts packed in synthetic satin drawstring bag, inside black packaging box in two halves with slide off lid. Brand; "Victoria"s Secrets". Tag reads " I used these chicken fillets…". All in new condition.
- Dimensions
- Dimension Description Box Height 17.5 cm Width 15.4 cm Depth 6.3 cm
Front of a black box reading "Style Secrets Shaping Inserts. Hides under your favourite bra for even more lift and shaping" lying next to one silicone breast inserts and a brown tag with writing on it.
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Gender Deviants Zine By River Manning
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/013
Tag This is a T4T kinky art zine I created, showcasing a diverse range of bodies and gender presentations revelling in trans joy, pleasure, and eroticism.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Zines, Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 210 mm Width 150 mm Depth 3 mm
A zine with a black cover and red text entitled "GENDER DEVIANTS A KINKY T4T ART ZINE" by River Manning
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Gender Punk Flyer
MOT/2024/NDOTC/EDIN/038
Tag Edinburgh Trans Pride's first fundraising concert's flier
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland, Printed Ephemera
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 210 mm Width 148 mm Depth 1 mm
Four copies of a flyer advertising Gender Punk fundraising concert. It lists the performers and the background image is of a person playing drums and another person holding a microphone and headbanging. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
- Gender Swap Flyers 'The First LGBTQ+ Clothing Outreach Organisation In The UK MOT000969
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Printed Ephemera
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Flyer for G(end)er Swap: the first LGBTIQ+ clothing outreach organisation in the UK (2 copies)
- Dimensions
- Height 15 cm Width 11 cm
White flyer reading "G(END)ER SWAP THE FIRST LGBTIQ+ CLOTHING OUTREACH ORGANISATION IN THE UK"
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Gendered Intelligence Camp 2018 Guide
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/016
Tag The guide from Gendered Intelligence's Super Camp in 2018, this is the purple village version, there was also a pink village and blue village
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Printed Ephemera
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 50 mm Width 80 mm Depth 5 mm
Gendered Intelligence Super Camp 2018 Mini Guide booklet printed on pink paper. Also, a brown handwritten luggage tag.
- Gendered Intelligence Youth Group Tags MOT001207
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Personal Messages
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- A collection of tags with comments from the Gendered Intelligence youth group's visit to the Museum of Transology exhibition at University College London.
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
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Gilet With Badge Attached
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/049
Tag Black gillet with safety pins and badge, of the late Thalia Tamari, 1998-2023. She died in her family home wearing the gillet, the safety pins were placed by her mother who pinned it back together after it was cut off by the emergency medics. Gillets are a form of body armour as it hides the shape beneath. Her mother gave it to me a few days after the death. [Text continues on the read of the tag] Thalia wore gillet most days for the last few years of her life. They protected her body from others. There is a yellow badge with a cat with the trans flag on top of it. She loved cats and had a cat called Katniss.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Memorial, Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 700 mm Width 63 mm Depth 40 mm
A black gilet with several pockets on a wooden clip hanger. It has a yellow badge (with a cat in the trans colours on it) pinned to the left breast pocket and is held together near the left shoulder with safety pins
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Glasgow Subway Ticket 3rd June 2023
MOT/2024/NDOTC/GLAS/022
Tag The subway ticket I used to go to my first trans specific social event, called T time. I was surrounded by trans people for the first time. It felt so good to be seen. Also used as a bookmark in the book Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Travel
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 5.3 cm Width 8.5 cm
A subway ticket and handwritten note describe attending a significant social event on June 3rd.
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Glasses and Lanyard
MOT/2024/TKDB/029
Tag Disguise worn by TKDB member to LGB Alliance 2024 conference to release crickets in protest to LGBA transphobia. Lanyard, shirt, glasses and lipstick. Disguise worn under the ['name' crossed out] fake name 'Elizabeth Davidson'.
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- Collection
- Trans Kids Deserve Better
- Category
- Trans Kids Deserve Better
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
A photograph of a pair of red glasses resting next to a pink name badge which says 'LGB Alliance' with a black lanyard.
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Gold Polyamory Bracelet
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/058
Tag A gold polyamory bracelet from my first queer love
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 10 mm Width 85 mm Depth 10 mm
A gold bracelet with a polyamory symbol (a heart with an infinity symbol). With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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Goober Toy - Bread Bag With Ripped Up Documents Inside
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/036
Tag THIS IS "GOOBER", A SOFT TOY I MADE USING A BREAD BAG, A PEN, AND RIPPED UP DOCUMENTS FROM MY MEDICAL & LEGAL. TRANSITION BACK IN POLAND, INCL. MY DIAGNOSIS OF "TRANSSEXUALISM". I KEPT GOOBER IN MY HOUSE UNTIL HE WANTED TO MOVE ON AND INTO THE ARCHIVE. - ALEKS J.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Artwork, Medical, Trans Identity
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 360 mm Width 200 mm Depth 100 mm
A clear plastic bread bag filled with ripped up paper documents and knotted. A cartoon face of a monster has been drawn on the bag. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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