Dust 2016: Transgender lives, mental health, and Eve/Adam

The Dust of Everyday Life is an annual conference exploring the arts, mental health and social justice, programmed by the Mental Health Foundation and See Me, Scotland's campaign to end mental health discrimination. This session from Dust 2016, at the CCA in Glasgow on Wednesday 20 April, was a discussion around the National Theatre of Scotland's Eve/Adam project, a double bill of theatre shows exploring transgender lives – Eve, a very personal, reflective show by playwright Jo Clifford (pictured), and Adam, the true story of an Egyptian trans man’s journey to self-discovery, directed by Cora Bissett (Glasgow Girls, Roadkill). The negative impact of stigma and prejudice on the mental health of transgender people is well documented, and the Mental Health Foundation is working with the National Theatre of Scotland to document transgender life stories in a positive and empowering way. Here, Jo Clifford and Cora Bissett talk about the project with Vic Valentine of the Scottish Transgender Alliance and Alison Wren from LGBT Health & Wellbeing.