Rebekah's Secret Grandpa Book By Andy Thornton

Object/Artifact

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Museum of Transology

Photograph of the book 'Rebekah's Secret Grandpa' by Andy Thornton which shows an illustration of a young person with long brown hair and an older person with grey hair and glasses. The younger person is holding a magnifying glass.

Photograph of the book 'Rebekah's Secret Grandpa' by Andy Thornton which shows an illustration of a young person with long brown hair and an older person with grey hair and glasses. The younger person is holding a magnifying glass.

Name/Title

Rebekah's Secret Grandpa Book By Andy Thornton

Entry/Object ID

MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/005

Tags

Book, Bristol, National Day of Trans Collecting

Collection

National Day of Trans Collecting

Category

Family, Publications

Dimensions

Height

214 mm

Width

216 mm

Depth

3 mm

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Notes

Bishopsgate Institute, London

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Tag Transcription

Notes

I wrote an illustrated this children's book about a trans Grandpa for my final major project on my art foundation at Oxford Brookes in 2014. I reasearched so many "ftm" people wanting it to be accurate and representative. I didn't make the viewpoint character trans as "I wasn't trans"…. good one. Looking back, all of that research was for me. I wanted to represent older trans people who we often don't see. But I also wanted to know I had a future. I told the first person ever that I might be a boy in the last week of the course.