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🏳️‍⚧️🏁 COLLECTIVE BANNER-MAKING SESSION 🏁🏳️‍⚧️ @transinfovan is is making a series of banners for @prideisatransledprotest @lostartlive on Friday 🏁 come down to the shop from 6-8pm before DJs @blvk.velvet and @elamentelament - this workshop is super inspired by @freya.wysocki and their work at @carltonclubmcr so we’re going back to our roots, hosting another banner-making session after a brief hiatus 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚧️ link in @emeri____c bio for £5 tickets or drop me a dm for low wagers and trans* icons 💋

✂️ ZINE SESSION ALERT ✂️ Come to the final day of @prideisatransledprotest @lostartlive on Friday, we’ve got 2 workshops - one of which is a zine workshop at 4-6pm 🏁 I’ve enjoyed @drawnpoorlyzine work from afar for agessss and finally will get to take part in one of their workshops. I can’t wait! Get a £5 @homotopiafest ticket in my bio, or DM me for low wagers and trans* icons 🏁

🏁 EARTHWORKS FESTIVAL 🏁 going to festivals and sharing the work of @transinfovan was always supposed to be an experiment but today showed me that this thing works! Today we made zines sharing information about the experiences of trans people, the necessity of queer parties, Celtic folklore and then some. Beautiful day, beautiful folk 🌀🏴‍☠️

🏁 some fun reading bits in preparation for the fields of the summer 🏁 catch me running 2x zine workshops at Earthworks festival this weekend influenced by ‘Club Commons’ (2026) @velocitypress ; and a potential reading project in the works inspired by ‘Sound System: The Political Power of Music’ @plutopress ; and some other very fun and IMPORTANT reading materials inspiring a zine or something suitably fun soon 🤠

Skaters Support Trans Rights This campaign is a solidarity project between trans and skater communities in Liverpool. The collaboration is brought about by the relaunch of the community arts exhibition ‘Pride is a Trans led Protest’ (2026) after facing censorship within the wider arts community in Liverpool. Lost Art, a local skate shop, provides a new home and space of safety for the exhibition in the face of increasing transphobia both locally and nationally. Profits from the campaign go to supporting the Trans* Info Van - a new project and mobile info shop for trans* artist, author and activist works and zines - with 10% going to Protect Scouse Dolls, Liverpool. Bring cash for t-shirts, posters, stickers and enjoy a hot or cold drink while your at it🐊❤️

Opening tomorrow @lostartlive ‘Pride is a Trans Led Protest’ @homotopiafest is THE long awaited exhibition of the year, battling censorship and transphobia in 2025. We didn’t let that stop us though - the exhibition opens with a reflective evening of conversation, connection and collaboration, featuring a panel with curators @conniefrankish and @gary.needham with artists @mahito_junior_ and @charliesupastar , hosted by yours truly 🏁 and the ever lovely and weird @tstheidiot performing some nice poems with some live sounds 💝 More than an exhibition, the show is a collaborative, solidarity-building project between DIY, radical spaces and cultures. Hosted @lostartlive , it’s a living document of trans resistance, joy and community. Bringing together work from activists, grassroots organisers and artists from Liverpool and beyond, Pride is a Trans Led Protest! centres the voices, histories and futures of trans people. Amazing artwork by @benyoudanart

🌀Currently making some notes before @exhibition_research_lab talk on Tuesday; trying to find a structure that makes sense of the last 15 years of being an artist (now with a PhD) that organises, thinks and writes/reflects, rather than makes anything in particular. There will of course be zine discourse, there will be queer/trans discourse (if you missed the third image), there may also be a small performative element cos I can be DRAMATIC. But basically I wanna think about why we need institutions (I.e. universities etc) and why they need us… 🌀 Maybe one day I will stop going on and on about praxis but today is not that day 🏁 Let’s rip it all up bb 🏁

LIVERPOOL PREMIERE SCREENING of Blue Has No Borders - Thursday 12th March from 6-8pm. “Jessi moves to Folkestone’s white cliffs; a crucible for debates on what English identity means as refugees cross daily from France. But the film Jessi thinks she’s making, about impossible social and psychological divisions, is changed by six of her new neighbours, who embody hope for a country of messy inclusivity.” Featuring a panel discussion with Liverpool locals about how we bridge divides in your community: @sarahpcorbett @emeri____c @mrboyfood @asylumlinkmerseyside @centreforpeoplesjustice

🌀 I’ve been invited to take part in a new event series @exhibition_research_lab @ljmu hosted by the gentle and curious Dr Jonathon Hoskins, Associate Researcher at the Exhibition Research Lab and organiser of this series. ‘After an Art PhD: Creative Uses of a Creative Work’ John Lennon Art and Design Building L3 5RD (map) Find me (+ some lovely old and new friends) there on 14th April talking about ‘Organising towards New Intimacies’; tracing the organising thread of my practice before, during and after PhD. An esteemed line up below; Social Practice Within and Without Institutions 17:00-19:00 Thursday 12 March With Anna Colin and Sunshine Wong Posthuman Excess 17:00-19:00 Thursday 19 March With Lucy A. Sames and Jason Waite Diasporic Dialogues 18:00-20:00 Wednesday 25 March With Clare Chun-yu Liu and Deniz Sözen Organising Towards New Intimacies 18:00-20:00 Tuesday 14 April With Emeri Curd and Cléo Verstrepen Images (clockwise from top left): Anna Colin; Lucy A. Sames, ‘Froath on the Sea’, a reading with well water, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2025 (image: Kirsten Cooke); Deniz Sözen; Emeri Curd (image: Carl Davies); Cléo Verstrepen; Clare Chun-yu Liu; Jason Waite; Sunshine Wong. 🌀

@emeri____c 's sound is groovy, vibrant, and instantly uplifting. There’s a bounce in every beat that feels warm and magnetic, making it almost impossible not to move your body. The rhythm carries a joyful pulse, blending feel good energy with a confident edge that lights up the room. They are steadily making waves in the queer scene, bringing people together through sound that feels freeing, expressive, and unapologetically alive.

I’ll be appearing on a panel for the documentary ‘Blue Has No Borders’ @bluehasnoborders directed by Jessie Gutch @picturehouse_fact on the 12th March at 6pm. The film is about overcoming social divides within the UK and what it means to be British within a time of crisis and nationhood. The story is told through the perspectives of 6 people living in Folkestone; who each have uncertainties around what it means to be British. I’ve been invited to appear on the panel due to my involvement in the ‘Stories of Solidarity’ zine project and associated work. I’m really looking forward to seeing the film and responding to some questions 🎥 The link for a ticket is in my bio.

‼️🏁 A whole year later see what we’ve learned on the ‘Stories of Solidarity’ project with University of Liverpool and @asylumlinkmerseyside The final workshop in a year-long series will take place at @doesliverpool on Friday the 13th of February, 3-5pm. In this workshop we plan to edit the zine collaboratively before it goes to print. Look out for the launch date later this year 📆 Please join us if you took part in any of the counter-demonstrations in Liverpool across Summer 2024, or if you took part in any of the workshops associated with the ‘Stories of Solidarity’ research project. ‼️🏁 As always, DM me if you are interested, have Q’s or are nervous about coming. I’m dead friendly 🥰