Sheep Hot Water Bottle

Object/Artifact

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Museum of Transology

A beige sheep hot water bottle. The sheep has black eyes and a pink nose. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.

A beige sheep hot water bottle. The sheep has black eyes and a pink nose. With a brown, handwritten luggage tag.

Name/Title

Sheep Hot Water Bottle

Entry/Object ID

MOT/2024/NDOTC/LOND/050

Tags

London, National Day of Trans Collecting, Memorial, Family, Neurodiversity, Suicide

Collection

National Day of Trans Collecting

Category

Family

Dimensions

Height

450 mm

Width

320 mm

Depth

110 mm

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Notes

Bishopsgate Institute, London

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Tag Transcription

Notes

THIS IS A SHEEP HOT WATER BOTTLE. IT BELONGED TO THE LATE THALIA TAMARI, 1998-2023. THALIA WAS A TRANS WOMAN FROM WALTHAMSTOW. AFTER MANY YEARS OF STRUGGLING TO FIND SPACES THAT WERE SUITABLE FOR HER, SHE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN DECEMBER 2023. MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE, TRANSPHOBIA AND NEUROTYPICALITIES’ INABILITY TO ACCOMMODATE TO NEURO DIVERGENT PEOPLE WERE CENTRAL TO HER SUICIDE. THIS SHEEP WAS a TEDDY SHE USED TO SLEEP WITH AND REPRESENTS ONE OF THE COMFORTS IN HER LIFE