The Collection
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Placard - Trans Women are Women
MOT/2024/NDOTC/DUND/020
Tag Given to the organisers of a protest againts women won't weesht. This placard was directly targeting their hate towards trans women, & uplifts our trans sisters.
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- Collections
- National Day of Trans Collecting, Placard & Banner Collection
- Category
- Placards
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 44 cm Width 47 cm Depth 0.3 cm
A placard with trans pride colors displays "Trans Women Are Women" in bold letters.
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Placard - Trans Youth Need Safe School
MOT/2024/TKDB/006
Tag 'Trans Youth Need Safe Schools' Placard made for the D of E occup- ation, displayed in one of the grates for the whole week.
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- Collections
- Trans Kids Deserve Better, Placard & Banner Collection
- Categories
- Trans Kids Deserve Better, Placards
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 420 mm Width 300 mm Depth 5 mm
Hand painted, white, cardboard placard reads: "TRANS YOUTH NEED SAGE SCHOOL" in red, blue and silver
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Placard - Trans is Beautiful
MOT/2024/NDOTC/DUND/017
Tag This is the hand print of a trans man, who made this to both represent self love & T4T. This was used in a protest against Women Wont Weesht.
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- Collections
- National Day of Trans Collecting, Placard & Banner Collection
- Category
- Placards
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- A placard which is white, has an outline of a hand drawn and inside is painted in trans flag colours - blue, pink and white. It has 'Trans is Beautiful' written on it. Lay on the placard is a brown tag with writing on it.
- Dimensions
- Height 30.5 cm Width 25.5 cm Depth 0.3 cm
A placard which is white, has an outline of a hand drawn and inside is painted in trans flag colours - blue, pink and white. It has 'Trans is Beautiful' written on it. Lay on the placard is a brown tag with writing on it.
![Handwritten cardboard placard reads: "TRANS. AUTISTIC. NOT CONFUSED," ["NOT" is double underlined] with colorful symbols. Decorated with a sticker, a rainbow colored infinity symbol and the trans flag. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.](https://d3f1jyudfg58oi.cloudfront.net/15395/image/8505c430-2513-11f1-95db-71fe3c6e973f-vfvVnpU.tn@2x.jpg)
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Placard - Trans. Autistic. Not Confused.
MOT/2024/TKDB/005
Tag Placard from the Trans Kids Deserve Better occupation of the Department for education. So often, neurodivergent trans people have our trans experience invalidated but we are here, we know ourselves and we are NOT CONFUSED [Formatting note; "NOT CONFUSED" is double underlined.]
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- Collections
- Trans Kids Deserve Better, Placard & Banner Collection
- Categories
- Trans Kids Deserve Better, Placards
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 570 mm Width 410 mm
![Handwritten cardboard placard reads: "TRANS. AUTISTIC. NOT CONFUSED," ["NOT" is double underlined] with colorful symbols. Decorated with a sticker, a rainbow colored infinity symbol and the trans flag. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/15395/8505c430-2513-11f1-95db-71fe3c6e973f-vfZiDS7.lg@2x.jpg)
Handwritten cardboard placard reads: "TRANS. AUTISTIC. NOT CONFUSED," ["NOT" is double underlined] with colorful symbols. Decorated with a sticker, a rainbow colored infinity symbol and the trans flag. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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Placard - Transphobia is not welcome here
MOT/2024/NDOTC/GLAS/026
Tag THIS PLACARD IS IMPORTANT TO ME AS IT REMINDS ME OF THE CONTINUOUS SUPPORT, RESILIENCE AND FIGHT THAT THE TRANS COMMUNITY OFFER EACH OTHER.
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- Collections
- National Day of Trans Collecting, Placard & Banner Collection
- Category
- Placards
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 27 cm Width 30 cm
The sign displays "Transphobia is not welcome here" on a flag background.
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Placard Trans Pride South West
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/002
Tag A homemade sign for Trans Pride South West. This represents where the organisation came from – used for a variety of events.
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- Collections
- National Day of Trans Collecting, Placard & Banner Collection
- Categories
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland, Placards
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 780 mm Width 590 mm Depth 5 mm
Hand painted brown cardboard placard with a stylised heart coloured in trans and non-binary colours and text "Trans Pride South West"
- Placard in Welsh 'Hawliau Traws Hobaith a'r Dyfodol' MOT/2023/TP/CARD/001
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- Collections
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland, Placard & Banner Collection
- Categories
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland, Placards
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
A placard which is painted in the trans flag colours of white, pink and blue and says 'Hawliau Traws Hobaith a'r Dyfodol'.
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Placard: Queer Liberation
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BELF/005
Tag This placard was designed in the Derry Rainbow Project in 2022. I brought this with me for my first ever Belfast Pride that same year. It was such an incredible day and it was also the first time I ever wore a skirt in public.
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- Collections
- National Day of Trans Collecting, Placard & Banner Collection
- Category
- Placards
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 195 mm Width 250 mm Depth 5 mm
The image features a cardboard sign stating "Queer Liberation".
MOT/2024/NDOTC/EDIN/056
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Placards (x4) - Trans Liberation Now, Protect Transgender Youth (Sheild), I love girl Cock, Trans Fucking Rights
MOT/2024/NDOTC/EDIN/056
Tag Tag 1 - "TRANS LIBERATION NOW" Hand-painted Protest Sign "Tag 2 - Protect Transgender Youth" Hand-Painted Protest Sign Tag 3 - "I ♡ GIRL COCK" Hand-Painted Protest Sign Tag 4 - "TRANS FUCKING RIGHTS" Hand-Painted Protest Sign
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- Collections
- National Day of Trans Collecting, Placard & Banner Collection
- Categories
- Family, Placards
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Placard- Trans Liberation Now Placard - Protect Transgender Youth (Sheild) Placard - I love girl Cock Placard - Trans Fucking Rights
- Dimensions
- Dimension Description All four placards Height 45.5 cm Width 64 cm
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
- Placards - Respect Our Existance Or Expect Resistance, Reform the GRA MOT/2024/NDOTC/EDIN/054
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- Collections
- National Day of Trans Collecting, Placard & Banner Collection
- Category
- Placards
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
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Plaid shirt, Tie-Dyed
MOT/2024/NDOTC/SOUT/021
Tag A shirt that somehow un- locked my gender. I used to hold myself to strict standards of toxic masu- linity as a „trans boy” because I didn't know there were other options. But putting this on made me have a non-binary epiphany.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 85 cm Width 63 cm Depth 0.3 cm
A colorful plaid shirt is displayed on a wooden hanger against a plain white wall.
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Plaster Casts
MOT000157
Tag Serge's PLASTER CAST MONSTER BODYCAST OF PHALLOPLASTY version 1 & 2. Cast by artist Svar Simpson (circa 2006 - 2009) Removed in 2009 in preparation for more successful radial forearm phalloplasty in 2010.
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Bathroom / Beauty
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Plaster casts and tag. Cast in 2 sections & tag; white cast pieces tied together with black elastic tape, unsealed plaster surface showing plaster bandage used in moulding. Cast is C shaped with a hole at both ends, both packed with tissue paper. Edges of cast rough & uneven. Good surface condition overall, no evident cracks, black elastic has some plaster on it. Tag reads " Serge"s plaster cast MONSTER bodycast of phalloplasty Version 1 & 2".
- Dimensions
- Height 19.5 cm Width 12 cm Depth 16 cm
White plaster cast held together by tape.
Special Collections
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Saturday closed
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