Following on from our sold out mini-journal series, we are excited to bring you a new anthology and exhibition of writing and art by trans makers.
Our transness is being contested, by the media, by TERFs, by the government. They are coming for our right to exist, to change, to become. To live well, to live gloriously. Trans Tongues is not for them.
Trans Tongues is full of trans life, chest tape and NHS leaflets, toilets and injections, parents and lovers, friends and community. It is also full of trans imagination, ghostly houses and slipper limpets and worms. The work takes the form of manifestos and love poems, paintings and photography. It is at times painful and tender, at others, hot and hungry: a feast.
Trans makers open their mouths, tell trans stories through their teeth, fill pages and exhibition walls with words and images that fall off their tongues.
Trans Tongues is for us, and we hope you enjoy spending time with the book and the exhibition.
This project is kindly supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Join us on the 1st November, 6pm-9pm for the Private View and Anthology Launch at BRIC. Gallery | Cafe. Be the first to see the exhibition and to hear readings from some of our anthology contributors.
We will have a limited number of drinks available but please feel free to bring your own drinks along too!
Schedule:
6pm - Doors open
6:30pm-7:00pm - Readings from Trans Tongues
Break
7:30pm-8:00pm - Readings from Trans Tongues
8:00pm onwards - Buy a copy of the anthology and browse the exhibition
9pm - End