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Homotopia are delighted to announce Trans Women Welcome - Sophie Green x Homotopia 🏳️‍⚧️

Homotopia have collaborated with the incredible Sophie Green on a campaign to encourage arts spaces, venues and businesses to display inclusive signage in their buildings following the recent Supreme Court ruling. Sophie has created a bespoke A3 print that features an important message: Trans Women Welcome. The print is free and can be collected from the welcome desk at FACT Liverpool starting today. A huge thank you to our friends at FACT for helping us distribute them.

🗺️ FACT, 88 Wood St, Liverpool, L1 4DQ

Collect and display to show your support!

➡️ About Sophie Green:

Embracing the city, its culture and herself, it’s no surprise that so much of Sophie’s work is a love letter to Liverpool. It’s where she found her style and began to live her life on her terms. This strength and independence emanates from Sophie’s work. Covering queer themes, exploring Liverpool and its architecture and sharing positive messages of love and protest. This wide-ranging celebration of community has seen Sophie become the go-to artist for inclusive and uplifting work.

For more information, and a link to download a digital copy of the print, visit Homotopia’s website!

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Homotopia are delighted to announce Trans Women Welcome - Sophie Green x Homotopia 🏳️‍⚧️ Homotopia have collaborated with the incredible Sophie Green on a campaign to encourage arts spaces, venues and businesses to display inclusive signage in their buildings following the recent Supreme Court ruling. Sophie has created a bespoke A3 print that features an important message: Trans Women Welcome. The print is free and can be collected from the welcome desk at FACT Liverpool starting today. A huge thank you to our friends at FACT for helping us distribute them. 🗺️ FACT, 88 Wood St, Liverpool, L1 4DQ Collect and display to show your support! ➡️ About Sophie Green: Embracing the city, its culture and herself, it’s no surprise that so much of Sophie’s work is a love letter to Liverpool. It’s where she found her style and began to live her life on her terms. This strength and independence emanates from Sophie’s work. Covering queer themes, exploring Liverpool and its architecture and sharing positive messages of love and protest. This wide-ranging celebration of community has seen Sophie become the go-to artist for inclusive and uplifting work. For more information, and a link to download a digital copy of the print, visit Homotopia’s website!

In 1993, when @mrhollyjohnson reveals his HIV status it is a radical act. If you have visited The Holly Johnson Story @museumofliverpool you will have seen how as an activist, Holly has worked with the HIV community as a voice and a champion. He has also spoken movingly about the impact the decision to reveal his diagnosis had on him and the people around him.

Here @gary.needham discusses the impact of this moment, the anti-stigmatising political act and why this period in the early 90s is a crucial turnaround in the conversation of people with HIV

#hollyjohnson #liverpool #queerart

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In 1993, when @mrhollyjohnson reveals his HIV status it is a radical act. If you have visited The Holly Johnson Story @museumofliverpool you will have seen how as an activist, Holly has worked with the HIV community as a voice and a champion. He has also spoken movingly about the impact the decision to reveal his diagnosis had on him and the people around him. Here @gary.needham discusses the impact of this moment, the anti-stigmatising political act and why this period in the early 90s is a crucial turnaround in the conversation of people with HIV #hollyjohnson #liverpool #queerart

Meet Ming De Nasty, the photographer behind the upcoming socially engaged photography project with Homotopia & Open Eye Gallery, ‘Residents’! 📸

Ming de Nasty is a contemporary artist and photographer who has developed her practice over the last 35 years in the Midlands. Her work is socially engaged with participation and collaboration at the foundation of her practice. In 2020 she worked with SHOUT! Festival, Birmingham. Working with queer identifying men she made a series of photographic portraits and audio monologues which were exhibited online as part of the festival. In 2018 she was commissioned by IKON Gallery Birmingham to do a summer residency on The Slow Boat. Working with asylum seeking women she created a photographic installation along the Birmingham Canal, Soho Loop of their portraits. In Wales from 2018– 2022 she made ‘Queer Country’, a photographic project looking at queer identifying individuals in Wales and what it means for them to be living in a rural environment. In 2022 – 2023 she made work with LGBT+ people in Shropshire in collaboration with LGBTSAND and GRAIN Projects. The work was exhibited at Shrewsbury Museum and The Hive Shropshire and featured in a publication. Queerness, identity and lived experiences are themes that run throughout her work. 🌿

Join photographer Ming De Nasty in celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community of Liverpool’s city centre through a unique socially engaged photography project; Residents. 📸

If you live in the heart of Liverpool or feel like the city centre is ‘home’ we would love to hear from you!

Your portrait will become part of a public exhibition, displayed across the city centre in a celebration of identity and belonging. ❤️

If you want to join this project, email [email protected] with subject line “Residents project“.

For more information about the project, visit the link in our bio.

Deadline: 30th May ⬅️

📸 @mingdenasty

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Meet Ming De Nasty, the photographer behind the upcoming socially engaged photography project with Homotopia & Open Eye Gallery, ‘Residents’! 📸 Ming de Nasty is a contemporary artist and photographer who has developed her practice over the last 35 years in the Midlands. Her work is socially engaged with participation and collaboration at the foundation of her practice. In 2020 she worked with SHOUT! Festival, Birmingham. Working with queer identifying men she made a series of photographic portraits and audio monologues which were exhibited online as part of the festival. In 2018 she was commissioned by IKON Gallery Birmingham to do a summer residency on The Slow Boat. Working with asylum seeking women she created a photographic installation along the Birmingham Canal, Soho Loop of their portraits. In Wales from 2018– 2022 she made ‘Queer Country’, a photographic project looking at queer identifying individuals in Wales and what it means for them to be living in a rural environment. In 2022 – 2023 she made work with LGBT+ people in Shropshire in collaboration with LGBTSAND and GRAIN Projects. The work was exhibited at Shrewsbury Museum and The Hive Shropshire and featured in a publication. Queerness, identity and lived experiences are themes that run throughout her work. 🌿 Join photographer Ming De Nasty in celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community of Liverpool’s city centre through a unique socially engaged photography project; Residents. 📸 If you live in the heart of Liverpool or feel like the city centre is ‘home’ we would love to hear from you! Your portrait will become part of a public exhibition, displayed across the city centre in a celebration of identity and belonging. ❤️ If you want to join this project, email mingdenasty@gmail.com with subject line “Residents project“. For more information about the project, visit the link in our bio. Deadline: 30th May ⬅️ 📸 @mingdenasty

Happy Trans+ History Week! 🥳

This week and every week we celebrate trans people. This image was captured a few years ago, where we proudly marched beside @liverpool_trans 🤍

Trans+ History Week is a global week-long observance dedicated to learning and celebrating the history of transgender, non-binary, gender-diverse and Intersex people. ✊

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Happy Trans+ History Week! 🥳 This week and every week we celebrate trans people. This image was captured a few years ago, where we proudly marched beside @liverpool_trans 🤍 Trans+ History Week is a global week-long observance dedicated to learning and celebrating the history of transgender, non-binary, gender-diverse and Intersex people. ✊

As part of Homotopia’s Takeover Day @museumofliverpool as part of The Holly Johnson Story we invited Paul Harfleet from @thepansyproject to lead a panel reflecting on the two decades that have passed since it began.

Paul began planting pansies at the site of homophobic attacks, and looking back, he asks what he thought the project would be in 2025.

How has homophobia changed? Let’s be honest, it hasn’t gone away. How has language evolved and how have attacks changed over time?

Be aware this conversation includes references to homophobia and homophobic language

#hollyjohnson #queerart

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As part of Homotopia’s Takeover Day @museumofliverpool as part of The Holly Johnson Story we invited Paul Harfleet from @thepansyproject to lead a panel reflecting on the two decades that have passed since it began. Paul began planting pansies at the site of homophobic attacks, and looking back, he asks what he thought the project would be in 2025. How has homophobia changed? Let’s be honest, it hasn’t gone away. How has language evolved and how have attacks changed over time? Be aware this conversation includes references to homophobia and homophobic language #hollyjohnson #queerart

At the Homotopia Takeover Day, as part of the @mrhollyjohnson exhibition @museumofliverpool we heard from a number of artists, activists and creatives discussing the themes and stories that have come out of the show. Their insights were so clear and inspiring that we’ve taken a few snapshots.

A lot of activism is lonely work and it can take a lot of time online to have your voice heard. If you’ve been at any of the marches or protests in supports of our Trans family this weekend, you’ll know the impact of in person - or analogue - activism. How does physical protest sit alongside your digital activism?

@monica.b.pearl was part of ACT UP New York, an international coalition working to end the AIDS pandemic.

Here reflect on Allyship, Activism and going Analogue with your protests

#activism #lgbtvoices

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At the Homotopia Takeover Day, as part of the @mrhollyjohnson exhibition @museumofliverpool we heard from a number of artists, activists and creatives discussing the themes and stories that have come out of the show. Their insights were so clear and inspiring that we’ve taken a few snapshots. A lot of activism is lonely work and it can take a lot of time online to have your voice heard. If you’ve been at any of the marches or protests in supports of our Trans family this weekend, you’ll know the impact of in person - or analogue - activism. How does physical protest sit alongside your digital activism? @monica.b.pearl was part of ACT UP New York, an international coalition working to end the AIDS pandemic. Here reflect on Allyship, Activism and going Analogue with your protests #activism #lgbtvoices