2024 Guardian article by #JanMorris's son Mark. It has its reading challenges but interesting too that biological sex & gender tension is referred, #GermaineGreer brutality affected her too. Read with some latitude. Contemporary #AprilAshley no mention.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...
‘Once she was Jan, I never thought of her as anything other than a woman’: Jan Morris remembered by her son
When celebrated writer Jan Morris published a memoir about her gender reassignment in 1974, it brought trans identity to public attention. Fifty years on, her son Mark reflects on the flawed woman he ...
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2026 at 3:13 PM
2024 Guardian article by #JanMorris's son Mark. It has its reading challenges but interesting too that biological sex & gender tension is referred, #GermaineGreer brutality affected her too. Read with some latitude. Contemporary #AprilAshley no mention.
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/s...
One day/decision at a time! As a worst case scenario it'll be back to #AprilAshley days going abroad to [today's actual centres of excellence] paying for the best and no political gatekeeping. UK is embarked upon creation of a prison island for trans people; kids - adults where only cruelty rules.
August 29, 2026 at 9:24 AM
One day/decision at a time! As a worst case scenario it'll be back to #AprilAshley days going abroad to [today's actual centres of excellence] paying for the best and no political gatekeeping. UK is embarked upon creation of a prison island for trans people; kids - adults where only cruelty rules.
English model and trans pioneer April Ashley was BOTD in 1935. #aprilashley #translivesmatter #bornonthisday
April Ashley
English model and trans pioneer April Ashley was BOTD in 1935. Born in Liverpool to a working-class family and assigned male at birth, she identified as female early in life, and was bullied for he…
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April 29, 2025 at 6:21 AM
English model and trans pioneer April Ashley was BOTD in 1935. #aprilashley #translivesmatter #bornonthisday
Day 20: April Ashley MBE 🏳️⚧️
A true pioneer & one of the first Britons to transition surgically. From a VOGUE model to a legal trailblazer, her 2004 win for the Gender Recognition Act changed history. A life of glamour, grit, and unapologetic truth. 👑 #LGBTHistoryMonth #AprilAshley
A true pioneer & one of the first Britons to transition surgically. From a VOGUE model to a legal trailblazer, her 2004 win for the Gender Recognition Act changed history. A life of glamour, grit, and unapologetic truth. 👑 #LGBTHistoryMonth #AprilAshley
LGBTQ+ Heroes - Day 20. April Ashley
YouTube video by The Gayly Digest
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February 20, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Day 20: April Ashley MBE 🏳️⚧️
A true pioneer & one of the first Britons to transition surgically. From a VOGUE model to a legal trailblazer, her 2004 win for the Gender Recognition Act changed history. A life of glamour, grit, and unapologetic truth. 👑 #LGBTHistoryMonth #AprilAshley
A true pioneer & one of the first Britons to transition surgically. From a VOGUE model to a legal trailblazer, her 2004 win for the Gender Recognition Act changed history. A life of glamour, grit, and unapologetic truth. 👑 #LGBTHistoryMonth #AprilAshley
Watching "Enigma" (2025). Documentary about April Ashley and Amanda Lear. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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#EnigmaHBO #AprilAshley #AmandaLear #LGBTQ
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#EnigmaHBO #AprilAshley #AmandaLear #LGBTQ
July 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Watching "Enigma" (2025). Documentary about April Ashley and Amanda Lear. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
imdb.com/title/tt3496...
#EnigmaHBO #AprilAshley #AmandaLear #LGBTQ
imdb.com/title/tt3496...
#EnigmaHBO #AprilAshley #AmandaLear #LGBTQ
Enigma, the latest documentary directed by Alum Zackary Drucker (BFA 2005 Photography and Video), is now streaming on HBO!
https://link.sva.edu/4gvfwzO
#sva #svanyc #svaalumni #documentary #enigma #aprilashley #amandalear
https://link.sva.edu/4gvfwzO
#sva #svanyc #svaalumni #documentary #enigma #aprilashley #amandalear
October 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Enigma, the latest documentary directed by Alum Zackary Drucker (BFA 2005 Photography and Video), is now streaming on HBO!
https://link.sva.edu/4gvfwzO
#sva #svanyc #svaalumni #documentary #enigma #aprilashley #amandalear
https://link.sva.edu/4gvfwzO
#sva #svanyc #svaalumni #documentary #enigma #aprilashley #amandalear
ICONS
My portraits of April Ashley and Amanda Lear.
Both in private collections
#aprilashley
#amandalear
My portraits of April Ashley and Amanda Lear.
Both in private collections
#aprilashley
#amandalear
June 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
ICONS
My portraits of April Ashley and Amanda Lear.
Both in private collections
#aprilashley
#amandalear
My portraits of April Ashley and Amanda Lear.
Both in private collections
#aprilashley
#amandalear
April Ashley was a trailblazing figure in transgender history, known for her courage and resilience in a time when public understanding of transgender issues was almost nonexistent.
#aprilashley #TransgenderHistoryMonth #transpioneers #TransRightsMatter #TransVisibilityDay
#aprilashley #TransgenderHistoryMonth #transpioneers #TransRightsMatter #TransVisibilityDay
August 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
April Ashley was a trailblazing figure in transgender history, known for her courage and resilience in a time when public understanding of transgender issues was almost nonexistent.
#aprilashley #TransgenderHistoryMonth #transpioneers #TransRightsMatter #TransVisibilityDay
#aprilashley #TransgenderHistoryMonth #transpioneers #TransRightsMatter #TransVisibilityDay
We're SO excited to reveal April Ashley's Personal Papers as our newest collection, and we really want to hear from our communities as to what you want to see happen next!
Book onto a First Look event at: www.eventbrite.com/e/april-ashl...
#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbthistory #trans #aprilashley #transhistory
Book onto a First Look event at: www.eventbrite.com/e/april-ashl...
#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbthistory #trans #aprilashley #transhistory
April Ashley's Personal Papers: First Look at the New Collection
You're invited to take a First Look at our newest collection: April Ashley's Personal Papers
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November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We're SO excited to reveal April Ashley's Personal Papers as our newest collection, and we really want to hear from our communities as to what you want to see happen next!
Book onto a First Look event at: www.eventbrite.com/e/april-ashl...
#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbthistory #trans #aprilashley #transhistory
Book onto a First Look event at: www.eventbrite.com/e/april-ashl...
#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbthistory #trans #aprilashley #transhistory
I always keep #AprilAshley in mind at times like these. Robbed and battered to buggery by the British and through it all she wore her scars with pride and left us at the height of her veneration by a society who saw through all the faslehoods she had to endure.
July 16, 2026 at 10:03 AM
I always keep #AprilAshley in mind at times like these. Robbed and battered to buggery by the British and through it all she wore her scars with pride and left us at the height of her veneration by a society who saw through all the faslehoods she had to endure.
3/13 That report makes crystal clear that the UK is in thrall to malign & probably foreign interests dedicated to the overthrow of hard won #Transgender rights & protections built up inch by inch over decades since the papers outed the late & simply stunning #AprilAshley
May 28, 2026 at 10:06 AM
3/13 That report makes crystal clear that the UK is in thrall to malign & probably foreign interests dedicated to the overthrow of hard won #Transgender rights & protections built up inch by inch over decades since the papers outed the late & simply stunning #AprilAshley
Old enough to remember #UK having a sense of fair play about it. [Sorry #AprilAshley you were treated horrifically as you were both beautiful and #Trans ]
I just don't have any sense that the #BBC remembers this in its cack handed blundering haste to bin a presenter to insulate their reputation.
I just don't have any sense that the #BBC remembers this in its cack handed blundering haste to bin a presenter to insulate their reputation.
March 31, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Old enough to remember #UK having a sense of fair play about it. [Sorry #AprilAshley you were treated horrifically as you were both beautiful and #Trans ]
I just don't have any sense that the #BBC remembers this in its cack handed blundering haste to bin a presenter to insulate their reputation.
I just don't have any sense that the #BBC remembers this in its cack handed blundering haste to bin a presenter to insulate their reputation.
Never of course forgetting magnificently stoic Ms #AprilAshley treated with enormous cruelty by the 1960s Sunday papers. Spectacularly awful. Raised awarness.
Prices for her pre loved and now rare biography vary - limited copies.
Reprints are imo long overdue.
www.abebooks.co.uk/signed-first...
Prices for her pre loved and now rare biography vary - limited copies.
Reprints are imo long overdue.
www.abebooks.co.uk/signed-first...
![Former Man Takes Husband on Gibraltar
April Ashley, British model who was once a man, was married here Tuesday night to the son of a British lord.
Miss Ashley, 28, born in Liverpool underwent the last of a series of sex-change operations in Casablanca in 1960.
She married Arthur Corbett, 43, who owns a night club at Marbella on Spain's Sun Coast, Mr. Corbett is the son of Lord Rowallan [1963].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f3jfofsqidk7uegozoa4hvsx/bafkreidbyxcjs4s2onadv3ttjxppobbstwnb5d7rafthgmpxzbmnupz7uu)
January 17, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Never of course forgetting magnificently stoic Ms #AprilAshley treated with enormous cruelty by the 1960s Sunday papers. Spectacularly awful. Raised awarness.
Prices for her pre loved and now rare biography vary - limited copies.
Reprints are imo long overdue.
www.abebooks.co.uk/signed-first...
Prices for her pre loved and now rare biography vary - limited copies.
Reprints are imo long overdue.
www.abebooks.co.uk/signed-first...
History is in agreement. Fell into polite, non threatening curiosity with & undertone of hurrah for them. #AprilAshley she was living well until the predecessor's to today's media barons tore into her. She recovered over time and died a majestic, beautiful icon of perseverance & fuck establishment!
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
History is in agreement. Fell into polite, non threatening curiosity with & undertone of hurrah for them. #AprilAshley she was living well until the predecessor's to today's media barons tore into her. She recovered over time and died a majestic, beautiful icon of perseverance & fuck establishment!
Just feels like we're back in the late 90s; earlier too if we take in #JuliaGrant late 70s, yet further back taking in #AprilAshley 60s #MarkWeston 30s & onward into a deeper past where secrecy & discretion hid a factual reality: "It takes all sorts to make a world." Dignity, tolerance & respect. 💘🙏
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Just feels like we're back in the late 90s; earlier too if we take in #JuliaGrant late 70s, yet further back taking in #AprilAshley 60s #MarkWeston 30s & onward into a deeper past where secrecy & discretion hid a factual reality: "It takes all sorts to make a world." Dignity, tolerance & respect. 💘🙏
Playing a losing game. Trans women I've known have stood with their cis fellowship fighting against violence and misogyny as long as I've known them personally and back to #AprilAshley done down viciously by male press barons in inglorious 60s headlines. History has been better, and will be again.
October 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Playing a losing game. Trans women I've known have stood with their cis fellowship fighting against violence and misogyny as long as I've known them personally and back to #AprilAshley done down viciously by male press barons in inglorious 60s headlines. History has been better, and will be again.
ICONS
My portraits of April Ashley and Amanda Lear.
Both in private collections
#aprilashley
#amandalear
My portraits of April Ashley and Amanda Lear.
Both in private collections
#aprilashley
#amandalear
June 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Died #otd April Ashley (1935-2021), English transgender model, actress and author, 4 years ago today #AprilAshleylife story...
December 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Died #otd April Ashley (1935-2021), English transgender model, actress and author, 4 years ago today #AprilAshleylife story...
Died #otd April Ashley, English transgender model, actress and author, 3 years ago today #AprilAshleywww.outlived.org/person/april-ashley-143098
December 27, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Died #otd April Ashley, English transgender model, actress and author, 3 years ago today #AprilAshleywww.outlived.org/person/april-ashley-143098
🌹 I cried for April Ashley.
I questioned Amanda Lear.
I thanked Zackary Drucker.
And I wrote this because silence is never neutral.
Visibility is not a trend—it’s a responsibility.
📝 My thoughts after watching Enigma
#TransRights #Enigma #AprilAshley #TransHistory #VisibilityMatters #LGBTQ+
I questioned Amanda Lear.
I thanked Zackary Drucker.
And I wrote this because silence is never neutral.
Visibility is not a trend—it’s a responsibility.
📝 My thoughts after watching Enigma
#TransRights #Enigma #AprilAshley #TransHistory #VisibilityMatters #LGBTQ+
My Thoughts After Watching Zackary Drucker’s Masterpiece, Enigma
I just watched Enigma, the documentary directed by Zackary Drucker, and I cried rivers. It wasn’t just a film. It was a mirror. A wound. A…
imnadia.medium.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🌹 I cried for April Ashley.
I questioned Amanda Lear.
I thanked Zackary Drucker.
And I wrote this because silence is never neutral.
Visibility is not a trend—it’s a responsibility.
📝 My thoughts after watching Enigma
#TransRights #Enigma #AprilAshley #TransHistory #VisibilityMatters #LGBTQ+
I questioned Amanda Lear.
I thanked Zackary Drucker.
And I wrote this because silence is never neutral.
Visibility is not a trend—it’s a responsibility.
📝 My thoughts after watching Enigma
#TransRights #Enigma #AprilAshley #TransHistory #VisibilityMatters #LGBTQ+
April Ashley, one of the first British trans women to grace fashion magazines.
FC: Preserving fashion’s past for future generations.
#AprilAshley #TransFashionHistory #LGBTQHistory #FashionTrailblazer #BritishFashion #HistoricalFashion #VogueModel #TransRights #FashionConservatory #TransWoman
FC: Preserving fashion’s past for future generations.
#AprilAshley #TransFashionHistory #LGBTQHistory #FashionTrailblazer #BritishFashion #HistoricalFashion #VogueModel #TransRights #FashionConservatory #TransWoman
June 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
April Ashley, one of the first British trans women to grace fashion magazines.
FC: Preserving fashion’s past for future generations.
#AprilAshley #TransFashionHistory #LGBTQHistory #FashionTrailblazer #BritishFashion #HistoricalFashion #VogueModel #TransRights #FashionConservatory #TransWoman
FC: Preserving fashion’s past for future generations.
#AprilAshley #TransFashionHistory #LGBTQHistory #FashionTrailblazer #BritishFashion #HistoricalFashion #VogueModel #TransRights #FashionConservatory #TransWoman
#6wordreviews #sixwordreviews #6wrenigma #enigma #amandalear #aprilashley #trans #documentaryfilm #docfilm #max #documentaries #maxoriginal #documentary
July 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM