We Are Everywhere, Kavka Oudaan (2025)

“They can try all they want to erase us, but at some point, they will realize the trans community is never going away. We are everywhere.” — Charlotte Clymer.

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This initiative emerged in the wake of a persistent campaign against trans existence. According to the Trans Murder Monitoring Project, at least 350 trans and gender-diverse people were murdered globally in 2024, with over 5,000 documented killings since 2008. These numbers reflect only a fraction of the epidemic of violence against trans people, with many deaths going unreported or misgendered.

 

Through this exhibition and public program, we remember those who were silenced, but we also honor their refusal to disappear. We recognize remembrance not only as mourning, but as protest. In the midst of a crisis of mass trans erasure, we aim to look both backward and forward in time, and question what happens when we explore archiving as activism, remembrance as resistance, and queerness as a tool for constructing new narratives.

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We invited artists, researchers, and activists to propose interventions that engage with trans loss, visibility, and survival. We Are Everywhere will culminate in a vigil on Transgender Day of Remembrance — a day that mourns and memorializes the lives of transgender people lost to violence and systemic neglect — recognizing memory not only as grief, but as an act of defiance and care. 

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Curator: Bethan Burnside​

Artists: Cézanne Conce, Oscar Mathieu Le Bussy, Sacha Rey, Anna Dossman, Cyn Micheli, Mees Kempenaers, Billy Moisseron, Lyv Santerre, Joke 'Jo' O'Heer, Michiko Lii, and Nene Moné.

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Organized by Genderspectrum, in close collaboration with Ali Attoumani and Jaffy Cuypers.
Supported by the Kavka Oudaan and Stad Antwerpen.​​

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Photography by Miles Fischler.