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2022                 Restaging of TransTrans, described below, planned for the Amerikahaus in Munich, March 2022 (confirmed), in cooperation with local historians and activists and supported by Tessa Ganserer, a representative of the Green Party in Germany’s federal parliament. The pandemic also postponed plans to re-stage the exhibition in Melbourne, Australia.

2019/20            Co-curator (with Alex Bakker, Michael Taylor and Rainer Herrn), TransTrans, Schwules Museum* (Gay Museum*), Berlin, November 7, 2019 to March 2, 2020. A restaged/re-conceptualized version of TranTrans (see below).

2016                 TransTrans. A scaled-down version of TransTrans (below), staged at Becoming TransGerman: Transnational, Transdisciplinary, Transgender, Transhuman Conference, Freie Universität, Berlin, June 24-25, 2016.

2016                 Co-curator (with Michael Taylor and Rainer Herrn), TransTrans, Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary, May 27 – June 10, 2016. An historical exhibition about the transmission of knowledge from Germany to the U.S. through the relationships between transgendered individuals and researchers like Magnus Hirschfeld, Harry Benjamin, and Alfred Kinsey.

2011                 Co-curator (with Michael Taylor and Rainer Herrn): PopSex! Edmonton Works Festival, Edmonton, June 21 – September 3, 2011. A smaller version of PopSex! (below).

2011                 Co-curator (with Michael Taylor and Rainer Herrn): PopSex!, Alberta College of Art and Design, January 6-22, 2011. The exhibition displayed archival documents from Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science (1919-1933) and commissioned artworks.