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Understanding Male Health 21 May 2013 | 07:15 pm
Understanding Male Health (75 mins) As I’ve explained previously (over on the blog), one project we didn’t have time to complete and launch before the closure of NHS North West and our equalities tea...
Disabled People and Health Services 21 May 2013 | 07:05 pm
Last month, over on the blog, I explained how we had managed to complete our Disability History Timeline at NHS North West, before the organisation was disbanded as part of the NHS reorganisation on 3...
Alice Purnell’s Memoirs 20 May 2013 | 05:51 pm
Alice Purnell OBE is an important contributor to the development of the trans community in Britain. She was involved in founding the Beaumont Society in the 1960’s; founded the Gender Trust in 1990; a...
Paris Lees - LGBT Role Model 22 Sep 2012 | 11:05 pm
Paris Lees appeared in an earlier edition of Just Plain Sense about the signing of a Memorandum on trans people at Channel 4. Even then she was probably not all that well known outside of a small circ...
The Sunderland, by Leslie Burns 7 Aug 2011 | 06:46 am
A couple of years ago, in March 2009, I recorded a Podcast interview with my own Father, Leslie Burns. I’m glad I did so because, just ten months later, he passed away. After his death I found a neat...
Bookends 17 Jul 2011 | 04:38 am
In this episode I’ve been into the archives to retrieve two presentations by myself and the well-known US trans personality Kate Bornstein in June 2007, as we shared the stage opening the UK’s first “...
30 Years On - The Bradford Twelve 13 Jul 2011 | 07:59 am
July 16th will mark the thirtieth anniversary of a campaign supporting what became known as the ‘Bradford Twelve’. On that day in 1981 a dozen young Asian men from the United Black Youth League were ...
Rainbow Voices 16 May 2011 | 04:33 am
This film, produced by my colleagues in the Equality and Diversity team at NHS North West is part of a larger resource (including a bookable exhibition, booklet and online resource) documenting the hi...
Trans Media Watch Memorandum of Understanding 18 Mar 2011 | 08:07 am
On the evening of Monday 14th March 2011 the organisation Trans Media Watch collaborated with Channel 4 TV to launch a new Memorandum of Understanding to an audience of media people, politicians and t...
Half an hour with Joan Roughgarden 13 Feb 2011 | 06:57 am
Professor Joan Roughgarden is no ordinary biologist - and no ordinary trans woman either - though there are quite a few high academic achievers within the world wide community of gender variant, trans...
