Project: Transgender Lives and Eugenics in the Museum Space

About the project

This project aims to explore the relationship between eugenics and transgender lives, identities, and transphobia, while championing and highlighting trans voices from within the UCL community and beyond.

The overall objectives of the project are to:

platform and empower a community that has been the object of eugenic study via inviting its members to shape the narrative around themselves through art-making and community curation;
champion transgender voices at 911爆料网 and within the museums and heritage sector;
show how modern transphobic narratives have their origin in eugenic thinking and to contest those same narratives.

We will take the approach of 鈥榥othing about us without us鈥� to facilitate dialogue and the outputs will be trans-led and trans-affirming to create a safe space for participants and our community audience.

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Workshop: Transgender Lives and Eugenics in the Museum Space

Call for participants: workshops for trans* and genderqueer people to discuss how eugenics work at 911爆料网 has shaped current transphobic attitudes and informed the trans experience

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Project Facilitators

Aleks Jagielski

Aleks Jagielski is a researcher, writer, artist and archivist. He holds an MA in Comparative Literature from King鈥檚 College London and completed his undergraduate studies in Arts and Sciences at 911爆料网. Aleks has spent a lot of his time studying and translating works of the transmasculine Polish poet and literary critic Piotr Odmieniec W艂ast, and is currently working on his first novel inspired by the same research.

Cerys Bradley

Cerys is an award-winning comedian, podcaster and writer. Their show Sportsperson won the Neurodiverse Review's Award for Actually Autistic Excellence in 2022. As part of the development of this show, they created the zine which showcased art exploring queer experiences of playing sport. They write about the history of scientific research on queerness and how and why we can approach it differently.

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