We await the powerful billboards
Get your party clothes on! It’s Trans History Week – not to be confused with Trans Pride Week, Trans Celebration Week, Trans Rage Week, Trans Grumpy Week, Trans Electric Magenta Hair Week, to name a few.
Powerful ‘Always Been Here’ billboards appear across the UK to mark inaugural Trans+ History Week
I do love a powerful billboard.
A series of powerful billboards in major cities across the UK will make trans history visible to the public and mark the inaugural Trans+ History Week.
Ya ok that’s the same thing. Move on now?
The first-ever Trans+ History Week, which is a QueerAF launchpad project, will take place from Monday 6 May to Sunday 12 May and will be a period of time dedicating to learning about and celebrating history of trans, non-binary, gender-diverse, and intersex people.
Through a series of articles, podcasts and a lesson workbook created using academic research principles, Trans+ History Week aims to provide the British public and wider global community with a millennia-old history of trans+ people and gender-diverse communities.
Ah yes. We know what that will look like – examples of gender non-conformity seized and turned into unquestionable examples of “trans people” for the edification of the credulous.
Throughout the week, twenty emerging trans+ creatives – who have been supported, given audio equipment to keep, and mentored by QueerAF across multiple commissioning schemes – will also share their stories.
Oooh audio equipment to keep, well I never. The “mentoring” will of course bear no resemblance at all to manipulating, recruiting, hectoring, re-educating.
Oh, goody, because what the world needs right now is more TikTok and Instagram
narcissistscontent creators.Whenever I see someone referred to (or someone who “identifies”) as “a creative” or “an influencer” they automatically lose about 99% credibility with me. Call me skeptical.
Maybe for “influencer” we could use “popularity contestant,” and for “creative” we could use “imagination abuser.”
Yeah, coopting every woman who ever dressed as a man and/or used a man’s name because it was the only way they’d let her out of the kitchen to do the things she wanted desperately to do, and in many cases, had the talent to do.
It isn’t Trans History Week; it’s Steal Women’s History week.
This is a good example of what I meant with my comment on the ‘Zip it, Eely’ thread. Why bother with well-thought out, rational discourse when you can just wallop a meaningless slogan on a billboard?