The Collection
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Knitted Hat
MOT/2024/NDOTC/DUND/010
Tag This hat was Knitted for me as a thank you for running our high school's GSA
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Family, Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 23 cm Width 18 cm Depth 1 cm
A knitted rainbow hat.
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Knitted Packer
MOT000156
Tag Serge's KNITTED MOORHEN PACKER (circa 2003 - 2006) started off plumper but got squished with use.
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Bathroom / Beauty
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Knitted "Moorhen" packer and tag. Knitted penile "packer" & tag; described as "Moorhen" due to shape. Dark grey purl knit in synthetic yarn, stuffed with soft material, embroidered with red thread across "head" and orange thread on tip of head and either side (eyes?).
- Dimensions
- Height 12.5 cm Width 10 cm Depth 6 cm
Dark blue knitted packer. a few bits of orange yarn poke through the blue stitches at the top tight of the packer. Thers is a white tag tied around the top.
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LEED/035
- LGBT+ Treasure Trail Created by Kit Heyam and GossipGrrrl Leeds City Museum MOT/2024/NDOTC/LEED/035
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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 5 mm
A black and white copy of a booklet entitled "LGBT+ Treasure Trail".
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Lace Pants
MOT000110
Tag These are from my first set of underwear (unworn!) I was so happy to be able to wear normal undies :)
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Black lace pants & tag. Black lace pants with elastane waistband, cotton gusset. Black ribbon bow detail with tiny silver plastic heart at centre of front waistband. Excellent condition.
- Dimensions
- Height 41 cm Width 18 cm
Black lace pants with a brown tag attached to it.
- Landscapes Of A Disregarded Gender By The Phantomat MOT001121
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Artwork
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- "Landscapes of a disregarded gender" by The Phantomat (x5 pieces). Five framed pieces of art, "Landscapes of a disregarded gender" by The Phantomat. In the artist"s words: "When transitioning I glued these pieces of underwear of the gender to be shedded on paper and turned into landscapes, tapestries for painting. It was a ritualistic process that included moments of furiosity over having to be forced to live a gender like in a dictatorship. But there was also a strange sadness over leaving the prison that was my home for 40 years." The items have been exhibited at the Museum of Dark Matter. See also MOT/1120.
Black underwear covered in various paints and inks mounted on a white background in a white frame. The background has black ink lines drawn horizontally across the top, and swooping round lines moving in loops from the bottom edges, to the center, and back to the edges again.
- Lanyard With Name ID For Gendered Intelligence MOT000106
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Badges
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Lanyard & business card holder. "Gendered intelligence" purple lanyard (470mm length) with plastic card holder, this contains a business card for "Finn Greig". The reverse has a sticker on it that says "Finn the human/he" in felt pen. Finn is lead youth worker at G.I.
- Dimensions
- Height 9.6 cm Width 8.6 cm
"Gendered intelligence" purple lanyard (470mm length) with plastic card holder, this contains a business card for "Finn Greig". The reverse has a sticker on it that says "Finn the human/he" in felt pen. Finn is lead youth worker at G.I.
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Lanyard and Crochet Medal
MOT/2024/NDOTC/SOUT/006
Tag Lanyard + crochet medal from an event at Trans Charity Chrysalis
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Badges
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 22 cm Width 8 cm Depth 1 cm
A colorful lanyard with a crocheted medal and a brown tag on a white background.
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Large Artwork Showing People Holding Trans Flag
MOT/2024/TKDB/020
Tag A drawing done during the June - July 2024 TKDB occupation of NHS England's ledge roof. The drawing was done in triumph after the police tried to intimidate us to leave and we stood our ground and stayed. The drawing symbolises the triumph of trans power and love over the cops and transphobes.
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- Collection
- Trans Kids Deserve Better
- Category
- Trans Kids Deserve Better
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 590 mm Width 840 mm Depth 1 mm
The image shows a ripped and folded piece of paper featuring five abstract figures in blue and pink around a trans pride flag, with blue and pink lines coming from them. There are figures in black around them and a helicopter to the top left..
- Large Print Copy Copy Of 'Trancestry: 10 Years Of The Museum Of Transology' MOT001199
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Publications, Disability
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
The image shows a spiral-bound book titled "Transcestry: 10 Years of the Museum of Transology".
- Large Print Guide No Pride Without Trans Pride Zine MOT001202
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- Collection
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland
- Categories
- , Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
The image shows a bright pink document with bold text stating, "No Pride Without Trans Pride".
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Large White Ceramic Vase Full of Dried Flowers With Tag Attached
MOT/2024/NDOTC/CARD/001
Tag The programme comprised of opera singers and musicians from RWCMD as well as poets from the trans and queer community of Cardiff.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Memorial
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Memorial offering for Transgender Day of Remembrance. This object was part of a memorial service for Transgender Day of Remembrance 2023 located at St John the Baptist Church in Cardiff, Wales. The vase was generously handcrafted by artist Morgan Dowdell. The service was directed by Christian Hey and produced by Lone Worlds. During the service flowers carrying personal remembrance messages were placed in the vase as offerings. The ceremony programme comprised of opera singers and musicians from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama as well as local poets from the trans and queer community of Cardiff. In remembrance of transgender lives lost around the world and for those struggling today.
A splatter or blob shaped white ceramic vase holding dried flowers with brown, handwritten tags.
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Laura Necklace
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LEED/008
Tag The first person I ever came out to was one of my best friends. She was so kind and affirming, and gave me the strength to continue on my journey. A week later, this necklace arrived in the post, from her, and I wore it everyday day for 3 years!
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Bathroom / Beauty
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 50 mm
A gold necklace with name "LAURA". With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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