Changing Rooms: Celebrating Trans+ Domesticities

Come along to Museum of the Home to celebrate the opening of our new room display of A High-rise Flat in 2008, which highlights months of community research documenting trans stories, lives and homes in 2000s East London.

Our day to night, community-led programme celebrates how East London has and still is providing home to the trans+ community.

Join us for trans+ 2000s themed screenings curated and hosted by TGirlsOnFilm, trans+ poetry readings from the 2000s and today, a trans+ artists and makers market, a panel talk led by Trans Action for Housing Justice to raise awareness about the issues faced by trans+ people today, and a cabaret celebrating the trans+ (and fabulous) performers who’ve made East London a home for the LGBTQI+ community.

Please note: tickets include general entry to the event day. Entry to individual programmes throughout the day are offered on a first come, first serve basis based on the capacity of the room.

Full Programme

A High-Rise Flat in 2008 with the Trans+ Community Researchers

12pm – 9pm | Rooms Through Time

Come and see the new permanent period room display celebrating trans+ homes in 2000s East London.

This display is a culmination of a 2 year-long community-led trans history project, where a cohort of 8 researchers have curated a permanent redisplay of our 2000s period room focusing on local trans stories of home and domesticity.

The community researchers who have co-curated the space will be in the room throughout the afternoon. Drop-in to learn more about the process!

Makers Market

12pm – 6.30pm

Come and browse the goods and wares of trans makers. Christmas is creeping up, so it’s the perfect time to do things early and buy something meaningful for those you love while supporting independent makers!

Featuring stalls from:

Alice Genus Leatherwork and Embroidery

Bratking

Emily A Foster

Fable Press

Feral Folly Shop

Hotpencil press

Jamie Sale

Katouttahere

Lām

Lewis Danielski

ManosQueer

Massivedraws

Melancholy designs

Shop Framsay

The Outside Project

Tin Holloway Illustrations

Trans Pansy

Film screenings curated by TGirlsOnFilm

12pm – 5pm

Channel hop through the noughties with a compilation of trans telly clips, curated by TGirlsonFilm. Walk the cobbled streets with Hayley Cropper, check into the diary room with Nadia Almada and discover some hidden gems from the telly box.

Trans Housing Today: Lived Experiences and Campaigning for Community Alternatives

2.30pm – 3.30pm

Join us for a panel responding to the exhibition’s historical insights and how trans people today reflect on their own experiences of home through the representations of the 2000s room.

With speakers from organisations such as Trans Action for Housing Justice and The Outside Project, we will discuss how housing in London suits trans needs and how we can fight for alternatives that represent what home means for trans and gender non-conforming people. The panel will end with time for questions, and include opportunities for audiences to reflect on their own experiences of home through written exercises.

Poetry Readings with Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, Danni Spooner and open mic session

5pm – 6pm

Join a Poetry hour with Gayathiri Kamalakanthan and Danni Spooner.

There will also be an open-mic section with a sign-up sheet. Each performer will have 3 minutes and names will be picked out of a hat at random. If you’ve ever wanted to try a poem or a little fragment in a welcoming, low-stakes environment, this is for you!

About Gayathiri Kamalakanthan

Gayathiri Kamalakanthan is a disabled writer. Their play Period Parrrty is a trans Tamil rom-com and opened at Soho Theatre in 2025. Their debut novel-in-verse Bad Queer is out with Faber.

Changing Rooms Cabaret

6.30pm – 8.30pm | 18+

Join Major Dom, Jet Moon, Laz Lighning and Cyro for a fabulous evenings of performances celebrating trans creativity in East London!

About the performers:

Major Dom

He’s a flirt and a fag, and sometimes even a Major Dom. Bringing black trans magic to stages across the country, he’s performed at Andro and Eve, Walthamstow Trans Pride, Soho Theatre and Hackney Empire. Major hosts Love Affair Kingdom, London’s only free monthly drag king night, and has recently been featured in Cold Magazine. This king will take you on the kind of space odyssey you’ll want to be writing home about – so strap in, it’s gonna be major.

Jet Moon

Jet Moon (they/them) is a writer, performer and activist. They’ve performed in many different settings, from London’s Bar Wotever and Transfabulous Festival of the Arts, to Berlin’s Wigstockel. Embracing experiences that range from organising clandestine festivals in Serbia, to hiding in moonlit forests from the Belarusian secret police. Jet writes, performs and collaborates on fierce work for radical social change.

Laz Lightning

Fresh-off-the-boat from Dalston, it’s everyone’s cup of Turkish T – Laz Lightning! This Anatolian cowboy is the baba and brains behind @outlawscabaret and is all about doing everything immigrantstyle.

Cyro

Cyro is a Blasian, trans-masculine, DRAG KING/THING! Bringing strength, beauty and awareness to the stage. Exuding political ferocious and heartfelt celebrations of the black trans experience. From performances at Shakespeare’s globe to Glastonbury. They are a leader on the drag/ cabaret circuit in political drag using themes of social injustice and trans joy as the backbone of his performances. He has been a course leader on the Soho drag cabaret lab, Above Your Nerve drag courses ,as a mentor for their drag children, and founder of the drag & cabaret residency at the Mercury Theatre ‘Cocktail Cabaret’ in Colchester in their hometown. Rooting his work in the LGBTQIA+ community they draw from queer ancestors within their practice.