A Look into the Trans Archive

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This event took place on 10 November 2020

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A Look into the Trans Archive

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This event took place on 10 November 2020

This discussion illuminates and contextualises some of the trans and gender diverse stories featured in the exhibition Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights.

Find out about -

  • Ground-breaking feminist magazine Urania which celebrated the lives of sex rebels and gender outlaws in the early 20th century
  • The 1930s media fascination with people described as ‘medical curiosities’ or sexually ‘anti-typical’ who today would be likely to identify as intersex or transgender
  • The legal struggles which led to the 2004 Gender Recognition Act
  • The striking visual iconography of contemporary non-binary artist of colour Travis Alabanza.

Our expert panel will show that trans people, in various forms and often with different names to those used today, have always been part of feminist history and the struggle for women’s rights, and will continue to be so in the future.

This event was part of Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights, a UK-wide exhibition by the British Library and public libraries.

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