Queering the Trans* Family Album. Elspeth H. Brown and Sara Davidmann, in conversation

This journal article is co-authored by Sara Davidmann and Assoc. Prof Elspeth Brown, University of Toronto, Canada.

The article discusses photographs taken by Sara Davidmann and oral history work by Assoc. Prof Elspeth Brown. The article explores the ‘Ken. To be destroyed’ family album photographs and a photograph album created by Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, photographed by Davidmann. Issues of control and collaboration, queering the archive and identity politics in Brown’s and Davidmann’s research projects are outlined. The article concludes with an examination of the concerns of erasure, forgetting and remembering that are brought to the surface in Davidmann’s photographs.

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