The Transvengers comic on display in 'Institute of Sexology' was created by a group of young trans people aged 13-19 from Gendered Intelligence.
Transvengers webcomic in the Institute of Sexology exhibition, Thomas S.G. Farnetti. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
It’s the group’s response to some of the themes and personalities in the 'Institute of Sexology' exhibition, informed by their own experiences as young trans people. They worked with artist Jason Barker to create the artwork and interviewed Dr Jana Funke as part of their research.
The aim was to create a lighthearted response to some really complicated ideas, in a way that everyone can understand and enjoy.
About the contributors
Young trans* people from Gendered Intelligence
Author
These young people aged 13–19 from the organisation came together to design and create the characters and the story of Transvengers. *Someone who at least partially disagrees with the gender they were assigned at birth.
Jason Barker
Artist
Jason is an illustrator, animator and film maker.
Dr Jana Funke
Researcher
Jana Funke is an author, literary scholar and historian of sexuality. She is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter and in 2015 was awarded a Wellcome Trust Joint Investigator Award to direct (together with Kate Fisher) a major five-year project on the cross-disciplinary history of sexual science.