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So. Oxford University Students' Union LGBT+ has just set up a subsidised binder scheme, for female-assigned at birth [FAAB] (or otherwise!) students in need of them.
There has existed, for a long time, the Big Brother Used Binder Repository (it was founded in 2001, is US-based, and takes a really gross attitude to non-dude FAAB trans* people - hence not linking). Available in the UK are the MORF Binder Exchange Scheme and Gendered Intelligence's Trans* Clothing Swaps (that link's to the eventbrite page for the next event, in London on the 30th of March).
-- and, actually, I'd like to see if I can manage something a little broader. Binders aren't the only item a coordinated exchange might be useful for: soft packers, for example, are something people are variably comfortable with obtaining second-hand, but there seems to be a steady trickle of packers going spare; breast protheses; and so on, and so forth. I am sure that there is an awful lot I am not (by dint of my experience) managing to think of.
At this stage, I'd love suggestions. Particularly:
Thank you lots - and please feel free to link around. xxx
There has existed, for a long time, the Big Brother Used Binder Repository (it was founded in 2001, is US-based, and takes a really gross attitude to non-dude FAAB trans* people - hence not linking). Available in the UK are the MORF Binder Exchange Scheme and Gendered Intelligence's Trans* Clothing Swaps (that link's to the eventbrite page for the next event, in London on the 30th of March).
-- and, actually, I'd like to see if I can manage something a little broader. Binders aren't the only item a coordinated exchange might be useful for: soft packers, for example, are something people are variably comfortable with obtaining second-hand, but there seems to be a steady trickle of packers going spare; breast protheses; and so on, and so forth. I am sure that there is an awful lot I am not (by dint of my experience) managing to think of.
At this stage, I'd love suggestions. Particularly:
- what sort of items would it be useful for me to aim to include from the get-go?
- I'm contemplating holding a kickstarter/indiegogo/similar to get some funding built up to start with, so (a) I can initially cover postage and (b) I can buy a small stock of new items to cover start-up. If I end up running such a thing, I'm going to want to offer perks to donors - and right now I'm coming up blank. So: what sort of perks to offer?
Thank you lots - and please feel free to link around. xxx
