Trans+ History Week 2025 | Community Event

Tue May 06 2025 at 06:15 pm to 09:00 pm UTC+01:00

Clifford Chance London | London

Trans+ History Week | A QueerAF Launchpad Project
Publisher/HostTrans+ History Week | A QueerAF Launchpad Project
Trans+ History Week 2025 | Community Event An evening of community to celebrate our history with special guests, live podcast recording & reflections to help guide us moving forward.
About this Event

Join us during Trans+ History Week (May 05 – 11) as we reflect on what wisdom we can draw from to help guide us today during an evening of community as we celebrate our history.

We’ll be joined by some very special guests for a live podcast recording and by some of our commissioned community members who have produced this year’s stories.

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About Trans+ History Week:

Trans+ History Week is a week-long reflective period to learn and celebrate the momentous and millennia-old history of transgender, non-binary, gender-diverse and Intersex people.

6th May - Trans+ History Day - always falls during Trans+ History Week as it marks the day the Nazis raided the world’s first trans clinic and four days later burned the precious research.

This event also takes place during the VE Day 80th commemorations. In this year’s workbook, we in particular want to reflect on Roberta Cowell’s contribution as a Second World War fighter pilot.

It's in the week they tried to erase us that we choose to remember.

Trans+ History Week is a launchpad project and a not-for-profit led by a passionate team of volunteers. Download & view the Trans+ History Week 2025 Workbook .

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What to expect?

Part 1: Live QueerAF podcast recording with special guests | Last year we were joined by Kenny Ethan Jones and the stars of Sex Education’s T4T storyline Anthony Lexa and Felix Mufti. This year’s guests will be announced shortly.

Part 2: Panel: Stories for our future, hosted by Jamie Wareham | Founder of QueerAF, Jamie Wareham, leads a conversation with some of this year’s Trans+ creatives who have been paid, mentored to create this year’s Trans+ History Week stories. Q&A will follow.


But wait, there’s more...

We’re also exhibiting all of the art from all of the commissioned artists that have taken part in Trans+ History Week

Visit our pop up shop where you can support us by buying a badge or merch and support some of our Trans+ author friends who will be doing signings.

The activities & conversations we have lined up have been curated to bring us together & help you to understand the issues, challenges & collective action needed to centre and unify us ahead of Pride Month.

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Reasons to attend...
  • Explore the millennia-old history of Trans+ and gender-diverse communities
  • Ask our panellists questions about how we learn from our history, and apply it to our present
  • Understand key insights and easy-to-quote knowledge for you to carry forward
  • Enjoy an evening with new connections, entertainment and wisdom

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Information about tickets:

One of our core principles is that we pay our speakers and we pay our creative talent.

All ticket sales help cover the event's costs and our nonprofit mission to invest in Trans+ talent, drinks reception included in price.

If you are unable to purchase a ticket due to financial constraints, please get in touch as we would not want this to prevent you from attending! No questions asked. Send us an email: [email protected]

If you'd like to purchase a PAY-IT-FORWARD ticket for someone on a low-income, you can also do that and your kindness would be truly appreciated!

Ticket fees will go towards funding Trans+ History Week speaker fees, event costs and supporting our Trans+ creatives to produce engaging content throughout the week.

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Our sponsors

This event is co-headline sponsored by Clifford Chance and Verizon Business, two organisations united by their desire to make a positive change in the world for the trans community and we are very grateful for their support.

Clifford Chance is generously hosting this event. Clifford Chance's goal is to be the global law firm of choice for LGBT+ people and for LGBTQ+ causes. Find out more about their incredible work here.

Verizon Business is committed to moving the world forward through social, economic and environmental advance. Find out more about how they take responsibility for our shared future here.

Publicis Groupe UK is our Creative Talent Sponsor.



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ABOUT TRANS+ HISTORY WEEK CIC | 05–11 May 2025

Trans+ History Week CIC is a Trans+ led nonprofit, social enterprise and QueerAF launchpad project – founded in 2024. It exists to popularise the newly created global awareness week: Trans+ History Week – taking place 05–11 May 2025 and Trans+ History Day which takes place on 06 May. It is a week-long reflective period to learn and celebrate the momentous and millennia-old history of transgender, non-binary, gender-diverse and Intersex people. The organisation creates content and hosts events and exhibitions that reflect on history and surface learnings for our present to secure a better future.


ABOUT QUEERAF CIC

QueerAF CIC is an award-winning independent publisher launching the careers of emerging and underrepresented LGBTQIA+ creatives with mentoring and commissioning schemes. It is the only both regulated and non-profit LGBTIQA+ publisher in the UK. QueerAF launchpad projects facilitate, mentor and support LGBTQIA+ creatives to create their own original projects as part of a broader mission to improve media and creative industries' representation of the LGBTQIA+ community. 


Speaker biographies

Marty Davies (she/they) | Writer, campaigner, creative strategist and founder of Trans+ History Week, a nonprofit investing Trans+ writers, artists and audio producers to share Trans+ history stories. A renowned expert in the space where LGBTQIA+ culture, the creative industries and the attention economy meet. She’s Campaign’s first transgender columnist, has bylines in QueerAF, Attitude, and Fortune, and has delivered educational talks and consultancy for Reddit, Microsoft, TikTok, E45, Adidas, Voda and Universal Music.

Jamie Wareham (he/him) | Founder of non-profit LGBTQIA+ publisher QueerAF. A Forbes Under 30 recipient with a decade-long award-winning career in journalism (BBC, The Guardian, City A.M, Attitude) and is a leading voice on media change and developing talent pipelines for queer creatives. In the last year, he mentored 70 queer creatives, created documentaries for National AIDS Trust and Love Tank CIC, supported Trans+ History Week’s launch and published investigative journalism with bylines in QueerAF, Forbes & Fortune.



How to find the venue

The event is at the Clifford Chance building on 10 Upper Bank St, London E14 5JJ. It's the building opposite the back entrance/exit to the Canary Wharf tube station.



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Agenda

🕑: 06:15 PM
Arrival
🕑: 06:45 PM
Welcome and a few words from our headline sponsors
Host: Clifford Chance representative
🕑: 06:55 PM
Intro and scene setting
Host: Marty Davies (she/they), Founder, Trans+ History Week
🕑: 07:05 PM
Part 1 | Live podcast recording
🕑: 07:35 PM
Comfort break
🕑: 07:45 PM
Part 2 | Panel discussion
Host: Jamie Wareham | Queer AF
🕑: 08:35 PM
Audience Q&A
🕑: 08:50 PM
Closing keynote speech & call to action
Host: Marty Davies (she/they), Founder, Trans+ History Week
🕑: 09:00 PM
Networking and refreshments
🕑: 10:00 PM
Close

Event Venue

Clifford Chance London, 10 Upper Bank Street, London, United Kingdom

Tickets

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