The making of ‘April Ashley – Portrait of a lady’ #1

With the build up to the opening of the April Ashley exhibition, we’ve made a series of behind the scenes episodes for Homotopia.tv. This first one highlights some of the work going on with the trans community which all form part of the exhibition. This film features our visit to Sparkle pride in Manchester earlier…

More Oral Histories

Here’s another selection of 5 audio histories that we have collected as part of the project. These will also feature in a book that will accompany the exhibition.

Oral Histories

We have interviewed members of the trans* community from London to Preston and Bangor to Manchester. Some interviewees are in their seventies and some are only just in their twenties and they all have fascinating stories to share. These interviews will feature in a book to accompany the exhibition and some short clips can be…

Community involvement

Over the past year we have promoted the project to thousands of members of the trans* community at group meetings in north Wales and Manchester and at the Sparkle celebration. We have shared some of April’s personal photographs, talked about her life and listened to reminiscences and captured oral histories. A lot of people remember…