The Collection
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Monster Mask
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/003
Tag Monster Mask Film Prop In silhouette she might seem monstrous, but when you see her fully you realise how ridiculous that fear was.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Artwork
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 890 mm Width 620 mm
Handmade blue and green papier mache monster mask with colourful hair and googly eyes on stalks. Also a brown luggage tag.
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Montane Baseball Cap
MOT/2024/NDOTC/NORW/034
Tag I got this cap in the early stages of transition. At the time I felt like it helped with being gendered correctly (although I think it had the unintended effect of making me look like a 15-year old...). I'm grateful for the protection it offered at a time when moving through the world could feel like a daily gauntlet.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 15 cm Width 15 cm Depth 5 cm
A brown and blue trucker hat displays "MATAKE" with a descriptive tag beside it.
MOT000971
- More Adventures: A Therapeutic Resource To Support Expansive Conversations About Being Trans and Exploring Gender MOT000971
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Printed Ephemera
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- "More Adventures" therapeutic resources card packet. Card packet, "More Adventures: a therapeutic resource to support expansive conversations about being trans and exploring gender", written by Amanda Middleton and Jason Barker, designed by Zed @ They Them Studio. The green card packet includes twelve cards, each featuring a tarot card-esque image and subject on one side and facts and questions for discussion on the other (2 copies)
- Dimensions
- Height 10 cm Width 6 cm
Small green box of cards with gold foil design reading "MORE ADVENTURES" inside a diamond.
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Mother's Funeral Poem
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LEED/024
Tag My mum died when I was in prison I wrote on prison paper poems
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Family, Personal Messages
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
The image shows two handwritten poems on lined paper from HMP Manchester.
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Mug and Plate Set
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LEED/023
Tag my first girlfriend as a trans man in prison we made each other presents
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Family, Artwork
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
A home made mug and plate made in prison in white ceramic decorated with red and blue hearts. The plate has the text "Dalton & Bev Love". The mug has the text "Jack" and "Dalton". With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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Multi-Coloured Fiddle Toy
MOT000131
Tag A fiddle toy to take my mind off negative feelings
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Trans Identity
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Multi-coloured wooden fiddle toy and tag. Wooden "fiddle toy" & tag; made up of 12 cubes with square "S" shaped sides in orange, yellow, green, white, dark blue, red. Held together by elastic thread.
- Dimensions
- Height 12 cm Width 1.2 cm Depth 1.2 cm
12 colourful cubes linked together by a piece of white elastic thread.
- Museum Of Transology 'Curate Your Gender' T-Shirt MOT001164
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- T-Shirts
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
A black T-shirt on a hanger features the text "CURATE YOUR GENDER" and "Museum of Transology".
- Museum Of Transology T-Shirt MOT001163
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- T-Shirts
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
A black T-shirt with rolled sleeves which has the Museum of Transology logo on it hangs on a wooden hanger against a plain wall.
- Museum of Transology Keyring MOT000127
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Badges
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Clear pink MoT Keyring. Perspex clear pink circular disc keyring 40mm diameter hanging on metal split ring 25mm diam. With narrow pink ribbon attached approx.. 400mm length. Excellent condition. Disc inscription reads " MoT…to remain collected under all circumstances….Museum of Transology"
- Dimensions
- Height 4 cm Width 2.5 cm
Perspex clear pink circular disc keyring 40mm diameter hanging on metal split ring 25mm diam. With narrow pink ribbon attached approx.. 400mm length. Excellent condition. Disc inscription reads " MoT…to remain collected under all circumstances….Museum of Transology"
- Museum of Transology"s 8th Birthday & Trans Pride UK Launch: Photo Album MOT001000
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- Collections
- Main Collection, Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland
- Categories
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland, Photographs
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Museum of Transology's 8th Birthday & Trans Pride UK launch photo album containing polaroids and tags. Photo album recording 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 album is is faux-leather black plastic and includes forty small polaroid photographs of attendees at the event, each with a tag containing a handwritten message next to it either to the Museum on its birthday or to the Trans community in general, spread over 21 pages. There is also a Museum of Transology brown envelope in the front page containing documentation from the weekend.
- Dimensions
- Height 35 cm Width 33 cm
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
- Museum of Transology"s 8th Birthday & Trans Pride UK launch: Documentation MOT000984
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- Collections
- Main Collection, Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland
- Categories
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland, Documentation
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Museum of Transology's 8th Birthday & Trans Pride UK launch paperwork. Paperwork from the Museum of Transology"s 8th Birthday & Trans Pride UK launch, held at the Triangle LGBTQIA+ Cultural Centre, Deptford, and the Bishopsgate Institute (11 & 12 February 2023).
- Dimensions
- Height 30 cm Width 21 cm
Museum of Transology's 8th Birthday & Trans Pride UK launch paperwork.
- Museum of Transology's 8th Birthday & Trans Pride UK launch: Tags MOT000985
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- Collections
- Main Collection, Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland
- Categories
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland, Documentation
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Tags from Museum of Transology's 8th Birthday & Trans Pride UK launch. Nine brown paper tags with handwritten messages from attendees at the Museum of Transology"s 8th Birthday & Trans Pride UK launch, held at the Triangle LGBTQIA+ Cultural Centre, Deptford, in response to the request "Write a message of love, friendship or hope"
- Dimensions
- Height 9 cm Width 11 cm Depth 6 cm
Tags from Museum of Transology's 8th Birthday & Trans Pride UK launch.
Special Collections
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