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Call for participants: workshops for trans* and genderqueer people to discuss how eugenics work at 911±¬ÁÏÍø has shaped current transphobic attitudes and informed the trans experience
About the workshops
We will be running three separate workshops as part of UCL’s Prejudice in Power programme, responding to the legacy of eugenics at 911±¬ÁÏÍø and beyond.
Facilitated by Aleks Jagielski and Cerys Bradley, the workshop will consist of a short seminar followed by an art making workshop in which participants will be given the opportunity to make an object to be displayed in an exhibition at 911±¬ÁÏÍø.
Its purpose is to bring together trans and genderqueer people at 911±¬ÁÏÍø and dissect the ways that gender has historically been constructed and the role that 911±¬ÁÏÍø specifically has played in that construction. We want to disrupt the current ways of thinking about trans bodies and trans minds by creating a satirical art exhibition on the theme of preservation.
Workshop dates
Friday 23 February 2024, 1-4pm, for UCL Undergraduate Students
Friday 22 March 2024, 1-4pm, for UCL Staff and Postgraduate Students
Friday 10 May 2024, 1-4pm, for the general public
Location: South Wing, Wilkins Building, UCL, London WC1E 6BT (room location will be provided to participants)
If you would like to contribute work or ideas to this project, please sign up to one of the workshops by emailing Kaissa Karhu, k.karhu@ucl.ac.uk, stating which workshop you would like to attend. Places will be limited, but a waiting list will be available.
Please note, the workshops will involve engaging with specimens from the Grant Museum of Zoology.
If you have any access needs or concerns regarding the workshops, please do not hesitate to speak to us. You can find accessibility information for the South Wing, Wilkins Building, UCL here:
Participants will receive a £50 Love2Shop voucher for taking part in the workshop.
Workshop facilitators
Aleks Jagielski
Aleks Jagielski is a researcher, writer, artist and archivist. He holds an MA in Comparative Literature from King’s College London and completed his undergraduate studies in Arts and Sciences at 911±¬ÁÏÍø. Aleks has spent a lot of his time studying and translating works of the transmasculine Polish poet and literary critic Piotr Odmieniec WÅ‚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 Sportspeople 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.
Contact for enquiries
Cerys Bradley, Project Facilitator, comedy@cerysbradley.comÌý
Kaissa Karhu, Co-Creation and Content Manager: Prejudice in Power, k.karhu@ucl.ac.uk