Genderdiagnonsense
Exhibition addresses waiting time and ‘gatekeeping’ in transgender healthcare By Mick “How would you feel if a psychologist were in charge of your body and the direction of your life?” For many trans people, this is not a hypothesis, but a reality. During the Genderdiagnonsense campaign by the activist group TransZorgNu, illustrators, photographers, performers, and other creatives from the trans community respond
Shaping image of the Right to exist
It's Saturday morning, February 8, 2025, I'm still half asleep while riding my bike to the dance school to take a ballet class. In the corner of my eye I see posters of a new children's film in the bus shelters. On the way back I take a closer look at the posters and see that they are for the
The power of ‘trans art school’
'We started with the Trans Pride in 2014 and saw during our nine days pride progam that art really connects people and that more and more creative people came out of their shell.'
Zooming in on the zine
To learn more about what zines are exactly and what they can mean for people who identify as trans, I had a chat with seasoned zinester James Rae Parnell. Turned out in a conversation about 'community' and 'unlikely allies'.
Study published on Dutch transgender history
Historian and transman Alex Bakker describes Dutch trans history. (Photo / 1954 -1956: Many American trans women travel to the Netherlands where about thirty clandestine sex operations take place.
What a genderful world
The further I progress through the exhibition, the more I discover about the meaning of gender and it’s different cultural expressions: Samoan fa’afafines, Albanian burneshas, Zapotec muxes, Native American two-spirit people and Southeast Asian hijras are all covered.
Female husbands & Sworn virgins
For as long as I can remember, I have had a fascination with other cultures. When I discovered that I was transgender, I started to wonder what transgenderness looked like in other cultures or societies where no medical intervention is possible.