Trans Post Project Archive
Trans Post Project 2022
These designs, submitted by participants in 2022, call for urgently needed change to trans healthcare and public opinion, offer words of support or simply share the results of a peaceful moment spent making. From dreaming of the basic safety to watch the stars at night, to asserting the cosmic nature of being trans in a universe that has always been fluid and changeable, these postcards send a common message towards a trans future; the simple guarantee of existing in it.
Attenborough Arts Centre would like to thank every artist that shared their design, as well as the youth groups, support circles and organisations that helped to facilitate this.
Image descriptions can be accessed by clicking on each image.
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Meet the Artists 2022
We commissioned five artists to show us what Trans Futures means to them.
Ashton Attzs
Instagram: @attzs_
Postcard title: ‘There Will Always Be Space’
Image Description: Digital illustration. Two astronaut close their eyes peacefully in front of a pink and blue gradient space-scape. One stands on the left in a pink space suite with a trans symbol on the back. They have brown skin, short pink locks and a grey beard. The other sits on the right, they wear a white space suite with an intersex symbol on the back. They have pale skin and wear a pink cap. In the background we see a large ringed planet with a trans flag planted in it, a flying saucer beams up a person, a rocket flies by and a space age building peek out from behind the low clouds.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Instagram: @Ladydangfua
Postcard title: ‘WE CANT DO THIS ALONE’
Image Description: Digital rendering collage. Text reads ‘WE CANT DO THIS ALONE’ in an X-ray colour scheme. A scene like a video game landscape shows a forest clearing. A figure with a glowing outline stands in the middle. They have a dark purple face and wear a metallic durag with a tunic in molten patterns of red, green and yellow. All-black figures covered in bands of small white writing reading ‘black trans’ lean on each other just behind. Beyond this, a brightly glowing figure floats with arms stretched out to each side, in front of three box shapes with distorted faces, leaning out of glowing yellow portals. Crowds of replicated figures gather in various locations around this, with many walking towards us. A rendering of a hand reaches out from the viewer’s perspective.
Claye Bowler
Instagram: @clayebowler
Postcard title: ‘Chockablock Trans Archive’
Image Description: A paper collage shows a shelf frame packed with storage boxes, packages, paper stacks and files. There’s the suggestion that one translucent box might contain breast tissue, whilst another case holds a series of vials. The colour scheme is mainly cardboard brown with green and yellow highlights on a light blue background.

Henry Dow
Instagram: @frocktopus
Postcard title: ‘Trans Elders Are Living Your Future Now’
Image Description: Text reads ‘Trans people of all ages have existed through all ages’. In the same muted colour scheme of purples, greens and oranges, 5 dappled strips of granulated paint start in the bottom left corner, twist together in the middle and spread back out into the top right corner. The background looks like lilac watercolour.

Mika
Instagram: @mikachuu_3
Postcard title: ‘My Trans Future is Black’
Image Description: Digital illustration. A figure with dark purple skin, torso view. They hold one hand upright, parallel with their face whilst the back of the other hand faces towards us, horizontal. Their eyes glow white and their lips are slightly parted. They have a long, thin, black moustache and eyelashes that flow behind them. Two strands of hair fall in symmetrical pink and blue waves, with yellow buns or spheres around the crown of their head. They appear to emerge from a yellow glow, surrounded by a wavy purple haze with flowing white line etched through it.
Workshops were facilitated by zine maker and binary breaker Melody Sproates, queer-feminist theatre maker Octavia Nyombi and Trans Post Project curator Morel O’Sullivan.
Trans Post Project 2021
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Meet the Artists

Henry Dow
He/Him
Instagram: @frocktopus
Postcard title: Shrink/Expand

Mika
She/They
“It’s about embracing colours of trans experience mainly my own. As a black and trans individual you never know how much impact you can have all the time a midst all of the problems within this world. But , my artwork is my biggest form of impacting people. This piece is about breaking free from gender norms and feeling empowered.”
Instagram: @_editmyfengshui_
Postcard title: Punk up my Pride

Soofiya
Instagram: @soofiya