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TReasured
Step into Mandy Romero’s world as her trans archive, TReasured, unfolds in the window of News From Nowhere. Her rare books, personal memories, and cherished mementos are curated into a living glimpse of her home, spilling stories and trans history onto Bold Street.
Through rare books, handwritten notes, intimate photographs, and cherished keepsakes, Mandy shares a deeply personal collection that celebrates the everyday beauty and resilience of trans experience. Each object tells a story — of discovery, transformation, and the quiet strength found in being seen.
Now, TReasured finds a temporary home in the window of News from Nowhere, Liverpool’s much-loved radical bookshop. For over fifty years, News from Nowhere has stood at the heart of the city’s LGBTQ+ and activist communities — a space of solidarity, ideas, and belonging. The collaboration between Mandy’s archive and the shop’s legacy creates a living dialogue between personal memory and collective history, echoing the spirit of resistance and care that runs through both.
News from Nowhere:
Mon–Sat, 10am–5:30pm
Sun, 11am–4:30pm
Mon–Sat, 10am–5:30pm
Sun, 11am–4:30pm
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If These Walls Could Talk: Mandy Romero, Treasured. Produced for the Queer Places Heritage Trail as part of Homotopia Festival 2025, by Alessia Naccari.
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Meet the Artist...
Mandy Romero (She/They)
Mandy Romero is a transgender artist, who has produced films, writing and has performed in plays and cabaret but also Live Art actions and interactions, which she has carried out in places as diverse as Barcelona, Shanghai, Copenhagen and the Pearl River Delta. She is based in Liverpool and has had a long association with the Bluecoat Arts Centre there, producing many of her performances and artworks for them. She took on the mantle of Queen of Culture for the Liverpool ’08 Capital of Culture celebrations. More recently she crossed Central Asia for a performance project which resulted in a photo-exhibition for Homotopia also concentrating on cabaret appearances and writing as well as creating an archive of her trans experience at https://www.treasured.org.uk called TReasured – A Living Encyclopaedia of Trans Experience.
https://www.treasured.org.uk or @tr.easured on Instagram!
Luke Fawcett (He/Him)
Luke Fawcett is an artist and designer, and the founder of Queer Places, whose work is centred around queer heritage, memory, and place. Trained in architecture but restless in its confines, his practice explores cities and places as sites of living archives - made of stories, memories, and collective imagination.
@queerplaces on Instagram
Alessia Naccari (She/Her)
Alessia is a Liverpool-based film maker and storyteller whose work celebrates queer identities and visibility. She is the co-founder of Lavender Nights, curating safe spaces and events for the FLINTA community. She has recently been nominated for an Iris Prize Award for her short film, ‘Sappho Girls’.
@alessiajadee on Instagram
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