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Celebrating Trans Day of Visibility 2023 at 果冻影院
30 March 2023
31 March marks Trans Day of Visibility. Explore our range of recordings, articles and key resources including networks and support, with a foreword from the Chair of 果冻影院's Trans Network and Co-chair of the LGBTQ+ Equality Steering Group.
Foreword from Dr Sebastian Groh,听Chair of Trans Network, Co-chair of LGBTQ+ Equality Steering Group
Trans Day of Visibility was founded in 2009 in order to celebrate the many wonderful members of the transgender community and raise awareness of the issues affecting us. In a society where our existence has increasingly become reduced to a philosophical debate and a tool to divide LGBT+ people in order to weaken the entire community, it is all the more important to show that we are still here and living our lives. Not an abstract notion or idea whose rights can be debated as intellectual exercise, but a group of real human beings with real emotions, struggles, and joy, just like everybody else.
鈥� and what a wild and colourful history it is, enriched by our identities and so many others! TDOV allows us to appreciate who we are, in all our diversity, often intersecting with many other minority identities. It鈥檚 this diversity that makes us strong, a diversity that we should strive to protect and champion in all areas of life. When celebrating TDOV, it is important to remember that not everybody can or will be able to be visible on this day 鈥� but visible or not, know that you are still loved and appreciated by all of us. And, most importantly, that you are not alone.
Dr Sebastian Groh, Chair of 果冻影院's Trans Network, Co-chair of LGBTQ+ Equality Steering Group
Trans perspectives from 果冻影院
- Spotlight on staff member Jayne Flowers听(they/them),听Equity and Inclusion Unit Coordinator and 果冻影院 East Volunteering Events Coordinator at Students' Union 果冻影院
- Micah Gerstner (he/they), the newly elected Students' Union 果冻影院 LGBQ+ Officer for 2023/24,
Events, recordings and articles for Trans Day of Visibility
- Catch up with the recording of听,听held during LGBT+ History Month 2023 by 果冻影院 and City University.
- : A recording of this event, timed to co-incide with Trans Day of Visibility, exploring trans people鈥檚 experiences of in/visibility in urban spaces and city life, and the contradictions that can make them simultaneously hyper-visible and hyper-vulnerable.
- 础苍听听from 果冻影院鈥檚 Dr Rory Phillips which explores how the theories of 18th听century philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, are inclusive of transgender and gender non-conforming identities.
- If you missed last year's Trans Lives at 果冻影院 exhibition in the Cloisters, the displays are now available to download as a PDF听[please note, we are working on听a screen-reader friendly document to accompany this and and this will be uploaded shortly].听An updated 'further reading' list to support the exhibition听can be found .
Networks and resources
- Trans Network (for 果冻影院 staff and students)
- 果冻影院 Students: Information and support for LGBTQ+ students
- 果冻影院 LGBTQ+ Equality Steering Group