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Transcript of an audio recording of Nina Hoechtl introducing herself and this publication at a hybrid workshop with DAAP at the Women's Art Library, 21 July 2023:

Nina: So Jessa and me met about a month ago, and you were so nice to introduce me to the whole process of adding something to this amazing DAAP. And I figured out in that moment that actually the trans/gender magazine, we published, Suzanne van Rossenberg and I, while we did our MA in Rotterdam, is 20 years old. So actually it's an anniversary.

And then I have been in touch with Suz to figure out how to register it, besides what is easy for me alone to do, to just add names and to add a photo. But then, yes, what about the description? So which description do we use? And even though I know I could do it individually, it is a collaboratively convened project, a bigger one that came out of a symposium.

And then we did also an online version that disappeared. Actually, I was trying in the deep web to find it. Someone co opted it. So, yeah, we cannot find that anymore. So we also have been thinking now how to perhaps figure out a way to register it, how to describe it, perhaps through sound? But yes, we haven't had the time, Suz and I, to further add information.

What I managed is to add all the names, meanwhile, Jessa, since you and I met. So yes, this is, as you said, very much in flux. And yeah, we are still discussing also if we will provide a PDF because yes, it's out of print, online activities were not as much as nowadays. So you can hardly find any information about it. So I think it's also great to think about how a publication project can become a different life through a digital archiving. So as I mentioned this, we did that while we were doing our masters. I was, my God, I was really young, 25, now I'm 45. With some people that were participating, I'm still in touch with a lot of them, I'm not. So it's also a really, really lovely way to get in touch again after 20 years. So we will write to them and see if they want to add any anecdotal histories that come back to their mind. It will be also a memory project. What do you remember? What comes back to the memory, when you receive an email, you know, to say well, it's 20 years ago that we all worked together on this publication.

So yes, I hope that explains it a bit. Thank you so much, Jessa, for inviting me.