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#TVCE #Symposium #TransPride #Pride #Pride2025 #Queer #Conference #AcademicSky π
As we head into #TransPride London this weekend, we want to pause and say a deep, collective thank you to everyone who made our recent #TVCE Symposium programme possible.
A person in white poses thoughtfully on a table with fruit and greenery. Bold text reads "TVCE" with event details: 8 July 2025, tvce2025.eventbrite.com.
Dr Jo Clifford (she/her) - Artist - presents an ONLINE EXCLUSIVE audio-play and discussion "Gospel According To Jesus Queen Of Heaven." Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #TransPride #Pride #Pride2025 #Queer #Conference #AcademicSky ππ
credit: E Scourti alt text: A composite image shows two perfume testing strips with handwritten poetic text in purple ink, held up in front of perfume displays in a store. Text Overlay: TVCE 8 JULY 2025 tvce2025.eventbite.com
E Scourti (they/them) - Goldsmiths College - presents a Transmission of sprayed scent strips accompanied by
spoken reflections "Scent Everywhere But a Name" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #TransPride #Pride #Pride2025 #Queer #Conference #AcademicSky ππ
A flowing transgender pride flag serves as the background for bold white text reading "TVCE." Below, "8 July 2025" and a website URL: tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Dr Lisa Overton (she/they) @drlisaroseycheeks.bsky.social MDX + Kevin Blanchard (he/him) @drrdynamics.bsky.social Disaster Risk Reduction @lgbtqiaindrr.bsky.social present a FUGITIVE TEACH-IN on queer survival and disaster navigation. Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25 tvce2025.eventbrite.com ππ
Image credit: Anders Aarvik Image Alt text: Top down photo of three bulky loudspeaker lying in a circle, facing upwards, on white pillows. Text Overlay: TVCE 8 JULY 2025 tvce2025.eventbite.com
Morton Poulsen (he/him) - Artist - presents an ONLINE EXCLUSIVE audio-paper: "Fear of Weakness: Songs to Agitate the Man" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25.
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Image Credit: Alondra Glavan, https://www.alondragalvan.com/ Alt Text: Kars (they/he), a white, bald, trans-masculine person wearing a navy blue muscle tee, pale blue jeans, and pink striped socks, lounges in the corner of a gallery space amongst blue, pink, and black plastics and brown paper. He rests against a partially disfigured, person-like, soft sculpture made of blue and green upholstery textiles. They look down at this creature with a soft gaze. TEXT OVERLAY: TVCE 8 JULY 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Kars Dodds @karszzzzz.bsky.social (they/he) - Independent Scholar - presents a Ritual of Refusal "LET US REST: Curating collective radical rest as an action against the trans experience
of hypervigilance" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #AcademicSky ππ
Hands gently cup a folded purple origami, overlaid with bold white text reading "TVCE 8 July 2025." A website link is at the bottom.
Dr Victoria Karlsson (she/her) - GSMD - presents an intervention "Un/folding β dangerous listening, aο¬ect and queer utopias" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #TransPride #Pride #Pride2025 #Queer #Conference #AcademicSky ππ
IMAGE CREDIT: Beatrice Baumgartner-Cohen Cartoon birds in a meeting, one holding a notepad. Text overlay reads "TVCE 8 July 2025." Background sign says "We Are In." Monochrome illustration.
Dr T. J. Bacon (she/they) @tjbacon.com Founder of the TVCE + Beatrice Baumgartner-Cohen (all pronouns) GSMD - present an intervention "To Be Perceived: Queer Truths, Emergent Self/s" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #TransPride #Queer #AcademicSky ππ
Stylish, bold text "TVCE" overlays black waiting room seats against a muted wall. Date "8 July 2025" and "tvce2025.eventbrite.com" are visible below.
Dr Rachel Hubbard (she/they) - UWE Bristol - presents an ONLINE EXCLUSIVE "The Waiting Room" an audio-visual and poetic exploration of the voices of parents of trans+ people. Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #TransPride #Queer #Conference #AcademicSky ππ
Credit: Image created with Canva by Robin Alex McDonald Alt text: Image contains simple, two-dimensional graphics rendered in pink, blue, and white β the colours of the trans flag β on a black background. Clockwise from the top, these graphics depict pencil crayons, a spiral notebook with a pen and piece of paper, three decorative stars, a glue bottle, bits of paper, scissors, a post-it note, tape, and two more decorative stars. Text Overlay: TVCE 8 JULY 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Dr Robin McDonald (they/them) - MacEwan University, Canada - presents a Living Archive that invites participants to collectively envision a utopian model of a gender-affirming
healthcare clinic. Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #Queer #AcademicSky ππ
@karszzzzz.bsky.social is facilitating documentation of the #TVCE Queer Acts of Hope Symposium (8 July 2025) through a sensitive, anti-tokenistic lens
IMAGE CREDIT:Obscure Film/Sammy Holden. a square image featuring the title cards of the film, Trans, Camera, Action. In the centre are three hand-painted placards with the title reading downwards from the top in the colours of the trans flag, the non-binary flag and a placard with trans and non-binary coloured paint splotches. A paintbrush is visible on two of the placards, painting the words. The background of the image overall is digital trans and non-binary coloured paint splotches on white. Colorful event poster with bold white text "TVCE" over pink and blue stripes. Above, "TRANS", below, "CAMERA". Date "8 July 2025". Web link at the bottom to tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Sammy Holden (they/them) our online programme curator and host - Durham University - presents an ONLINE EXCLUSIVE film screening "Trans, Camera, Action" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #TransPride #Pride #Pride2025 #Queer #Conference #AcademicSky ππ
A hand with black nail polish spreads fingers over an open book, conveying mystery. The text is out of focus aside from the word" Not Gender" White text overlay reads βTVCE, 8 July 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com"
Anna-Helena Mclean (she/her) - GSMD - presents "Glitching the Voice: Becoming through Sonic and Gestural Practice An embodied haptic workshop-lecture using the Integrated Physiovocality Toolkit" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25 Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com ππ
Thomas Jeram-West (they/them) Alt text: A portrait photograph of Thomas Jeram-West. Thomas is a White Northern European non-binary person, with shoulder-length layered brown hair and a full beard. They wear glasses with clear frames and their nose is pierced on the left side with a small silver ring. They are half smiling at the camera as they look directly into it. They are wearing a white and yellow striped shirt open to show a white t-shirt underneath, and a thin silver chain around their neck. They are in front of a set of bookshelves, blurred in the photograph. Text Overlay: TVCE 8 JULY 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Thomas Jeram West (they/them) @thefivetonine.bsky.social - University for the Creative Arts - presents "Quick Change: Non-binary dress as costume, between performance and performativity" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25 Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #TransPride #AcademicSky ππ
Smiling person with light hair stands outdoors with greenery in the background, wearing a light-colored shirt. Text overlay: "TVCE 8 July 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com."
Prof Nick MulΓ© (he/they) - York University, Toronto, Canada - Presents "Imagining and Authenticating Trans Liberation" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25.
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Image credit: Devon Roberts. Image alt text: Dane Eissler in blue and pink lighting looking straight toward the camera, wearing glasses and a turtle neck top. Text Overlay: TVCE 8 JULY 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Dane Eissler (they/he/it) @dmeissler.bsky.social - TransArt Institute USA - presents a workshop "(Re)Discovering Play in the Act of Performance: A queer-affirming somatic journey into embodied creation" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #AcademicSky ππ
A person with dark hair and brown eyes in a striped shirt is smiling softly. Overlay text reads "TVCE," "8 July 2025," and "tvce2025.eventbrite.com"
Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh (she/Ψ§Ω/they) - Guildhall School of Music and Drama - presents a De-Centred Meditation: "Freedom Beyond the Horizon" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #TransPride #Pride #Pride2025 #Queer #Conference #AcademicSky ππ
Image credit - E.M. Parry & AdriΓ‘n Coto Alt text: A close up photograph of silicone skin, white flesh tone. The βskinβ is embroidered with βtattoosβ in different coloured thread. A black skull, a blue heart, and the words βlarpβ and βWE WANTβ can be made out, amongst other stitching and loose threads. Text Overlay: TVCE 8 JULY 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Dr E. M. Parry (they/them) - (Doctorate University of Brighton) presents a Durational Performance: "Needlings."
Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25.
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Image credit is: Alexa Alice Joubin Alt text: An East Asian woman with hair updo and a red and black dress standing in front of a window, looking into the camera. Text Overlay: TVCE 8 JULY 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Prof Alexa Alice Joubin (she/her) βͺβͺ@profjoubin.bsky.socialβ¬ - George Washington University, USA - presents a Fragmented Paper "What Is Transness? Field Notes from an Interloper"
Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25.
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Image credit: Mika Gratzke ALT text for image: A pink A5 zine titled Re/searching gender euphoria. Not a perzine. Second & revised edition. On the cover is a picture of the author as a child, This is a headshot of a young person with nearly shoulder-length fair hair. They are wearing a 1970s shirt with a long pointy collar. Their expression is calm, they look straight into the lens with a hint of a smile. Text Overlay: TVCE 8 July 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Prof Mika Gratzke @mikagratzke.bsky.social (he/they) - Independent Scholar - Presents an ONLINE Exclusive Workshop "A carrier bag of queer experiences: zine making and sharing as acts of hope" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #Conference #AcademicSky ππ
Image credit: Nic Farr Alt text: Abstract, blue, wave-like forms on a white background Text Overlay: TVCE 8 July 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Dr Dan Scott (they/them) + Nic Farr (they/them) - CSSD - present "Wave Function" exploring βbodies of waterβ as trans* spaces for poiesis, embodiment and resistance. Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25.
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Katie Munday @kmunday.bsky.social (they/them) - University of Portsmouth presents an ONLINE EXCLUSIVE Transmission: 'Coming into my power as a trans Autistic activist and academic.' Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25.
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Image credit (photographer/artist) Eleanor rivers β the closet 2023 Alt text: A wooden closet sealed shut with caution tape, it bares the word AIDS written in pink lipstick, pink handprints and the words sex-ion 28 as a play on the section 28 A Text Overlay reads: TVCE 8 JULY 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Eleanor Rivers (she/they) - Independent Researcher - presents a Fugitive Teach-In: 'Trans Liberation in the age of suppression.' Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25.
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Pedro de Senna (he/him) @pedrodesenna.bsky.social - Director of the Brazilian Association of Futurists presents a Workshop 'Emergent trans+ futures co-creation session' Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25 Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com #TransPride #Pride #Queer #Conference #AcademicSky ππ
Alt text: "Hand-drawn poster with bold, shaded text 'TRANS JOY,' featuring doodles of a compass, butterfly and an abstract figure. Text Overlay: TVCE 8 July 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Oscar Sharples (he/they) + Caspar Allen (he/him) from Transilience CIC present an Un-Panel "Lessons from βon-the-groundβ activism" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com
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A smiling individual with long hair and glasses stands outdoors, ocean and lighthouse in background. Overlaid text: "TVCE 8 July 2025, tvce2025.eventbrite.com".
Portrait of a smiling person with "TVCE," "8 July 2025," and "tvce2025.eventbrite.com" overlaying the image. Background shows blurred bookshelves.
Dr Helton Levy (they/he) @heltonlevy.bsky.social + Genevieve Clifford (she/it) @mun-tonsi.net present "Radical impediments: The ideological underpinnings of lacking infrastructure affecting trans+ communities in contemporary UK" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25 Waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com ππ
Image credit: Ace Lehner Alt text written by the Ace Lehner: A beyond the binary trans masc person in a turquoise shirt and white jumpsuit with short dark hair and fair skin in their installation which is brightly coloured, with textiles with multiple patterns, glitter curtained space, full of art, a disco ball and a barber chair. Text Overlay: TVCE 8 JULY 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Prof Ace Lehner (they/them) presents an ONLINE EXCLUSIVE Transmission with Introduction titled "Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure." Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25.
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Image credit: Giugiu Barsuola. Alt text: a headshot of a non-binary person on a light grey background. They have short black hair with an undercut, black winged eyeliner, turquoise and purple tortoiseshell cat-eye glasses, three black ear-piercings on their left ear, and they are wearing a white shirt, and a black blazer. Text overlay: TVCE 8 JULY 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Dr Giugi Barsuola (they/them) @drgiugiu.bsky.social presents a De-Centred Meditation "Queer Liberation in the Here and Now" Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com
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Image Credit: Greer Lankton, Itβs All About ME, Not You (1996), installation shot, image by Tom Little, courtesy of Mattress Factory. Alt text: The photograph shows a corner of a room; the walls are painted green and are covered in an array of strange paintings and sculptures. On the right, a grotesque figure is tucked into a red bed covered in pill bottles. The ceiling is painted in stars. Text Overlay: TVCE 8 JULY 2025 tvce2025.eventbrite.com
Dr Louis Shankar (they/them) (Doctorate UCL) presents a Fragmented Paper "'Itβs All About ME Not Youβ - theorising Greer Lanktonβs radical narcissism.' Part of the #TVCE #Symposium 8/7/25. Join the waitlist tvce2025.eventbrite.com
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