Good Day!

I know the work of Del LaGrace Volcano from the exhibition “101 intersex – Das Zwei-Geschlechter-System als Menschrechtsverletzung” (which roughly means: The Two-Sexes-System as a violation of human rights”, for detail of the exhibition see: http://www.101intersex.de/de/fs_index_de.htm), which took place in Berlin from 18th of June to the 31th of Juli 2005. It inspired me to describe this form representation politics for my graduation thesis in sociology, to show how interventions in normative regimes can work through visual art. Del LaGraces work is very well known in Germany for its positive impact on public recognition of Transgender issues and claims.
The disciplinary action which Simon Burgess has to face is an affront! What an enormous backlash for a supposedly forward-looking department like Photography! And for the whole Transgender movement and their image-making (or other) political strategies!
Censoring political important work like Del LaGrace Volcanos, by actually scarying persons recommending it with possible redundancy and labeling it salacious and irrelevant is an outrageous act of repression. This extrapolates various kinds of institutional forms of making invisible and silence everything and anything, which doesn´t fit in the regulative norm.
I therefore ask the authoryties involved in this process to refrain from threatening or even removing Simon Burgess from office and think again!
With best regards,
Do. Gerbig