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- TTPVS was exhibited on 12/02/15 @ Boscombe Arts Depot
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- Numbers with Scrimbo was shown on 13/11/24 at Arts University Bournemouth
the SERIOUS STUFF
You may be wondering why you should pay attention to the information on a website that's styled to look like it was made by a teenager in the mid-90s in an Internet Cafe, it hardly seems like an official source.
But the reality is there are so few "official" sources that have real information about or for transgender people. The Gender Identity Clinic I'm on a waitlist at has referred me to an unaffiliated Tumblr Account for advice, the official sources just redirect us to unregulated sources because for a multitude of reasons (transphobia in organisations and politics, a lack of research into trans people, a lack of funding to research and support trans people) the official sources can't help us.
And especially in the US, we're seeing the removal and destruction of sources that provided advice, support or information for transgender people. And we have seen this before in the past during previous rises in right wing politics and, put simply, rises in fascism. On the morning of May 6th 1933 the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sex Research) was raided by a students union and Nazi organisation, Deutsche Studentenschaft. They destroyed tens of thousands of items, including an extensive library of research on sexuality and gender identity, as well as other books that were blacklisted under the Nazi regime. Later in the day, members of the SA joined students in the raid.
Four days after the raid, much of the looted material was burned in the street. It is estimated anywhere from 12,000 to 25,000 books and journals were destroyed, along with an even larger number of photographs, works of art, documents, and the personal possessions of LGBTQ+ people and allies at the institute.
If history seems to be repeating itself, it becomes all the more important to keep information for and about queer people, and artworks by queer people, accessible, available, and for people to keep making them. If information and artwork was not powerful they would not go to such great lengths to destroy it.
But the reality is there are so few "official" sources that have real information about or for transgender people. The Gender Identity Clinic I'm on a waitlist at has referred me to an unaffiliated Tumblr Account for advice, the official sources just redirect us to unregulated sources because for a multitude of reasons (transphobia in organisations and politics, a lack of research into trans people, a lack of funding to research and support trans people) the official sources can't help us.
And especially in the US, we're seeing the removal and destruction of sources that provided advice, support or information for transgender people. And we have seen this before in the past during previous rises in right wing politics and, put simply, rises in fascism. On the morning of May 6th 1933 the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sex Research) was raided by a students union and Nazi organisation, Deutsche Studentenschaft. They destroyed tens of thousands of items, including an extensive library of research on sexuality and gender identity, as well as other books that were blacklisted under the Nazi regime. Later in the day, members of the SA joined students in the raid.
Four days after the raid, much of the looted material was burned in the street. It is estimated anywhere from 12,000 to 25,000 books and journals were destroyed, along with an even larger number of photographs, works of art, documents, and the personal possessions of LGBTQ+ people and allies at the institute.
If history seems to be repeating itself, it becomes all the more important to keep information for and about queer people, and artworks by queer people, accessible, available, and for people to keep making them. If information and artwork was not powerful they would not go to such great lengths to destroy it.