The Collection
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Real Boy Playbook
MOT/2024/NDOTC/NORW/024
Tag Real Boy' theatre script Finn: A story about a boy trying to find his true self and acceptance. - Chudatsi
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Publications
- Place
- Norfolk Heritage Centre, Norwich
A black book which is called 'Real Boy' and has an illustration of a person being moved like a puppet. There is also a brown luggage tag with writing on it.
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Rebekah's Secret Grandpa Book By Andy Thornton
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/005
Tag I wrote an illustrated this children's book about a trans Grandpa for my final major project on my art foundation at Oxford Brookes in 2014. I reasearched so many "ftm" people wanting it to be accurate and representative. I didn't make the viewpoint character trans as "I wasn't trans"…. good one. Looking back, all of that research was for me. I wanted to represent older trans people who we often don't see. But I also wanted to know I had a future. I told the first person ever that I might be a boy in the last week of the course.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Family, Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 214 mm Width 216 mm Depth 3 mm
Photograph of the book 'Rebekah's Secret Grandpa' by Andy Thornton which shows an illustration of a young person with long brown hair and an older person with grey hair and glasses. The younger person is holding a magnifying glass.
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Rebellion Is Essential poster
MOT/2024/NDOTC/NORW/007
Tag Rebellion is essentiall is about the need as a trans person to defy the 'regular' to be yourself. To stay alive, you must become comfortable with others discomfort.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Printed Ephemera
- Place
- Norfolk Heritage Centre, Norwich
The image features a poster stating "Rebellion is Essential" with an axe design.
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Red Lipstick
MOT000161
Tag This lipstick was From my wonderful sister who was the First Family member to accept and support my transition. ♡
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- Collection
- Main Collection
- Category
- Bathroom / Beauty
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- Red lipstick in black case. Red lipstick in black battered casing, revealing silver underneath. White small sticker on side.
- Dimensions
- Height 7 cm Width 2 cm
Black lipstick tube. Some of the black paint has been stripped away revealing silver underneath.
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Red T-Shirt 'Fight Back' With Hammer, Sickle and Trans Symbol Imagery
MOT/2024/NDOTC/EDIN/079
Tag From 2020–2022 I was involved in grassroots trans communist organising. This design (carved and printed by me) was inspired by the iconography and ideology of those spaces. FIGHT BACK!
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Categories
- Fashion, T-Shirts
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 760 mm Width 680 mm Depth 10 mm
A red t-shirt printed in gold with the trans symbol stylised as a hammer and sickle and the text "FIGHT BACK". On a wooden hanger.
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Rejection Letter From Mills and Boon
MOT/2024/LTMLTS/013
Tag THIS RISIBLE REJECTION LETTER REPRESENTS A LONG STRETCH OF AIMLESS FLOATING IN LIFE. THIS GET RICH QUICK SCHEME TO WRITE CHEAP HETERO ROMANCE FOR CASE WAS A COMICAL FAIL. THE FLIMSY MANUSCRIPT IS LOT. I MUST HAVE TAKEN THEIR ADVICE AND BINNED IT!
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- Collection
- Letter To My Little Trans Self
- Category
- Printed Ephemera
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
Image shows a rejection letter from Mills & Boon (on cream headed paper), a document detailing 'Top Tips for Aspiring Mills & Boon Writers', a handwritten letter (on cream paper decorated with flowers) and an opened envelope (sent by Air Mail). With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
- Resist Banner MOT001183
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- Collection
- Placard & Banner Collection
- Category
- Banners
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Description
- A banner which says 'We Exist: We Will Resist'. The photograph shows what the banner was used for, hanging off a bridge at a protest.
A banner which says 'We Exist: We Will Resist' and is a turquoise colour with the text in pink. It is being hung off a bridge in London with lots of people holding it with others letting off pink smoke. You can see London in the background built up with buildings.
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Ribbons With Flowers
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LEED/022
Tag When I was trying to be girly (and goth) I wore ribbons in my hair - letting go of this 10 years post-cutting-short
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 40 mm Width 1,060 mm Depth 40 mm
A sheer, red ribbon decorate ed with three red flowers. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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River Manning Print - String Of Hearts (2022)
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/047
Tag String of Hearts' (2022) Linocut print From River Maning's 'TransFlorations' series Themes of trans joy, growth and naturalness are evoked through depicting trans bodies blooming from the neck with plants.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Artwork
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 210 mm Width 147 mm Depth 1 mm
This image shows a blue linocut print depicting a headless figure with heart-shaped vines draping down from their neck. With a brow, handwritten luggage tag.
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River Manning Print - Tranny Fag Dyke
MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/018
Tag This is a limited edition multi-block lino print I created in 2022 to help reaise money for my friend Jaz's top surgery fundraiser. Jaz had his top surgery in January 2024. He is training to be a therapist and hopes to give the field more intersectional inclusion.
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Artwork
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 210 mm Width 149 mm Depth 5 mm
A print of a River Manning illustration. It shows the rear torso and upper legs of a person wearing a black top and shorts. Their shorts are partially pulled down to reveal at a tattoo "TRANNY FAG DYKE" on their right buttock. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.
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Roam Happiness Book by Juno Roche
MOT/2024/LTMLTS/002
Tag Roam' with edited Cover. Juno
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- Collection
- Letter To My Little Trans Self
- Category
- Publications
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 26 cm Width 12.8 cm Depth 2.2 cm
The image shows a book titled "Roam" with an edited cover featuring a small house illustration.
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Rocks In A Plastic Bag
MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/010
Tag The floor of my dressing room! While stuck in the closet at home, the most convenient place I can dress how I want to when going out is a driveway that leads to an alleyway behind everyone's back-gardens. Today like many days, the stones are wet courtesy of the delightful British weather :D
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- Collection
- National Day of Trans Collecting
- Category
- Fashion
- Place
- Bishopsgate Institute, London
- Dimensions
- Height 100 mm Width 70 mm Depth 10 mm
A plastic money bag filled with pebbles, with a brown handwritten luggage tag.
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