Broken Glasses

Object/Artifact

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Museum of Transology

A pair of broken glasses lies above a handwritten note, recounting their damaging incident.

A pair of broken glasses lies above a handwritten note, recounting their damaging incident.

Name/Title

Broken Glasses

Entry/Object ID

MOT/2024/NDOTC/PLYM/017

Tags

National Day of Trans Collecting, Plymouth, Glasses

Collection

National Day of Trans Collecting

Category

Fashion

Dimensions

Height

5.5 cm

Width

14 cm

Depth

2.5 cm

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Notes

Bishopsgate Institute, London

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Tag Transcription

Notes

Broken glasses/'Gimp'. These were broken during a night out by two men who called me a gimp. I later exhibited these alongside my first bikini top "Gimp/Tits" 2022, as a duality of trans experience.