The Collection
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Question Authority Rubber Bracelet
MOT/2024/NDOTC/MANC/006
Tag Question Authority Bracelet - From the person who cracked my egg Love you Wesley <3
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 6.5 cm Width 6.5 cm Depth 1 cm
The image shows a "Question Authority" bracelet and tag with a personal message from Wesley.
- Quilt 4 tin Archive Booklet MOT/2024/VIEN/005
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- Collection
- Queer Museum Vienna
- Category
- Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
Two identical booklets, whose cover is a collage of many different images. It's title, "Quilt 4 tin Archive" is in white text on a pink background in the center of the cover.
MOT/2024/NDOTC/DUND/006
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Quilt Made Up Of Various Embroidery and Patches Including Vagina Motifs
MOT/2024/NDOTC/DUND/006
Tag "My Insides Are Made of Thread" 2018. This quilt is made up of individual experiences and memories hand stitched together as a representation of how I experienced community and my own transness at a time when I had no community other than crafting. Making this quilt helped me to cement my identity in a sea of others, and overall represents everyone who has ever felt alone. CRT
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Family
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 161 cm Width 123 cm
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
- RAF Newspaper - Article Featuring Donor MOT000043
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- RAF News article from March 10 2017 featuring MoT donor. Newspaper: RAF News (Royal Air Force News) from March 10 2017. 44 pages. Complete with all the pages. Top right-hand corner has been folded and it has been folded in the middle.
- Dimensions
- Height 37 cm Width 30 cm Depth 2 cm
The cover of the newspaper "RAF News" with the headline "Meet the Sullivans" and several other featured articles. A page of newspaper featuring an article titled "Museum scores a first" with a short story regarding the donation of ex search and rescue pilot Flt Lt Ayla Holdom to the Museum of Transology.
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RAF Training Cap
MOT000036.1
Tag This is the SD hat I wore in Training. It has two reasons for being significant. It is the hat I traded in for a white one, when I became RAF Police. And it is a boys cap. Obviosly I have no need for a boys cap anymore. (but I actually prefer the look of them over the girls) The RAF have been amazing to me as a trans person. I wouldn't trade my time in for anything. (even if I did join in a misguided attempt to be masc)
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Memorial
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 26 cm Width 23.8 cm
A blue RAF police cap sits beside two police warrant cards, featuring photographs and identifying details.
- Radical Deviance - A Journal Of Transgendered Politics MOT001190
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
The image shows two "Radical Deviance" journal covers, one is a light yellow and the other green. There is a photograph on each one of a person with curly long blonde hair and a mask in front of them.
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Rainbow Birthday Candle
MOT000993
Tag BIRTHDAY CANDLE – FIRST BIRTHDAY IN WHICH FOLKS SANG HAPPY BIRTHDAY WITH MY NAME – NOT MY OLD/DEADNAME. @ a queer coffee morning with chosen family
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- Collections
- Main Collection, Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland
- Categories
- Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland, Trans Identity
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Rainbow birthday candle and tag. Rainbow birthday candle donated at 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 small wax candle is in rainbow colours and has a white plastic holder. The candle was donated by Robin-Felix Griffiths.
- Dimensions
- Height 1 cm Width 10 cm
A placeholder image that is an illuminous green background and the black outline of a tag.
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Rainbow Duct Tape On A Brown Tag
MOT/2024/NDOTC/EDIN/049
Tag Queer Yeshiva Duct Tape first UK Jewish Queer Residential Talmud thing
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Religion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 20 mm Width 30 mm Depth 1 mm
A piece of rainbow colour duct tape stuck to a brown luggage tag. With a second brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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Rainbow Kippah
MOT/2024/NDOTC/EDIN/065
Tag RAINBOW KIPPAH WITH PRO-PALESTINE AND REFUGEE PINS THIS IS MY KIPPAH BOUEHT JUST AFTER BATHING IN THE MIKVEH FOR THE FIRST TIME. I ADDED PRO-PALESTINE AND QUEER LIBERATION PINS FOR CAUSES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO ME AS A JEWISH QUEER TRANS MAN
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Fashion, Religion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Width 130 mm Depth 130 mm Length 30 mm
A rainbow coloured Kippah decorated with pro-palestine, pro-refugee, queer and trans pin badges. With a polaroid of the owner and a brown handwritten luggage tag.
- Rainbow Kippah MOT000098
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Categories
- Fashion, Religion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Black and rainbow kippah with tag. Kippah (Jewish headgear) & tags x 2; circular crocheted cotton, black with rainbow colours in a circular pattern. Appears worn but good condition.
- Dimensions
- Height 12.6 cm Width 13.4 cm
A rainbow knitted Kippah on a clear hat stand.
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Rainbow Plaques
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LEED/042
Tag These plaques were made made the trans people in Bradford in 2019-20 to commemorate places and events that were important to them. They were made to make Bradford's queer history visible, but never displayed in situ due to the Covid pandemic
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Artwork
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Dimension Description All Plaques Height 280 mm Width 280 mm Depth 5 mm
12 circular plaques with rainbow colored backgrounds. They all have different handwritten text in white on them.
- Razor Blade MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/055
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Medical
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
A dark grey safety razor blade
Special Collections
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