In the week leading up to Trans Day of Visibility (March 31), we’re putting a spotlight on artists who are near and dear to our hearts:
Jack Page (he/him). Featured in our 2024 exhibition, A Generosity of Abundance, Jack’s practice encompasses illustration, altered book art, papermaking, printmaking, photography, musical performance art, and Dis/Ability, Mad/Neurodiverse and 2SLGBTQIA+ community-based projects. Jack focuses on minimizing waste in his material practice, which he accomplishes through incorporating used, natural, and foraged materials, and upcycling waste products such as paper and medical waste.
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We are nothing without our trans family; QAF and SUM gallery exist today because of the inspiration, skill, and hard work of trans artists. So we’re taking a moment each day this week to celebrate some of the many people who move and inspire us.
#transdayofvisibility #transdayofvisibility2025 #transdayofvisibility🏳️⚧️ #jackpage #sumgallery #queerart #queerartsfestival
I thought it was time I reposted this. Designed c. 2013.
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I’ve said previously that #madpride has saved my life. It has saved any remote sense of self-esteem. I am sick, stressed, and tired of people saying the rioters at Capitol Hill were maniacs, insane, crazy, bonkers, Cray-Cray, psychotic, or even delusional.
They were not delusional or psychotic.
They were privileged aggressive and violent people.
White supremacy is not in the DSM.
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This is a logo I designed for mad pride Hamilton used in the mad pride zine: This Insane life, made by amazing people at the mad student society at McMaster University.
Even though I didn’t finish my MA in cultural studies, the MSS helped me survive it and the constant ignorance of academia.
I do not claim to be perfect.
I have a lot I need to work on myself. I relish the opportunity to be constructively critiqued. Every mistake is an opportunity for learning and growth.
I’m just really tired of people saying things are insane when they have no lived experience of psychosis or mania or schizophrenia or bipolar disorder or any conception that depression, anxiety, PTSD, or other common “normal” mental health issues also fall under the umbrella of madness.
I did not know about the concept of mad pride until I found MSS and Other organizations like #madpridetoronto
I feel a lot of anger at the injustice my friends, family, and I have and continue to experience.
I have utterly lost patience with the constant implication that white supremacists are us.
We have experienced massive harm at the hands of medical professionals, police, and government authorities. I am exhausted by the disability community not including mad folk because we “distract” from the cause. I am angered by the fact that the queer community seems to have forgotten that they used to exist in the DSM too. Trans dysphoria is still in the DSM.
Right now I’m not interested in educating anyone. If you want to go find out for yourself, look up Mad Pride, the history of mental health institutionalization, or disability rights 101. Use accredited professional sources.
I am MAD as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!
Thank you for reading
#madlivesmatter
@vancouvertransmarch@kirstendo took this great video from the Vancouver Trans March on August 1st, 2025
Of me singing my song “White, Pink, and Blues” a song based on Leslie Feinberg’s novel “Stone Butch Blues” that goes with the trans flag flame book I made from Feinberg’s novel (in previous posts).
It was on my bucket list to sing at the Trans March. I managed to get a day pass and a taxi from St. Paul’s hospital (with hospital voucher) to come perform. It’s been so hard being taken away from all my trans related social stuff, most especially the 2STGD Swim every week. I’m so deeply happy I got the chance to do this and perform for my beloved community, so many beautiful people I know were there.
Thank you all, you were a beautiful audience.
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#trans #transmarchvancouver
#singersongwriter #pride #song
#transgender #transpride #sing #singer #transman #transmasc #beyondthebinary #performance
A yellow rose for my hospital roommate at St. Paul’s who went to hospice today. Difficult drawing at night with not much light. She was lovely about the uke playing and singing.
Not sure what my lymphoma cancer treatment is gonna look like yet. I hope I get reunited with my mom soon, we were admitted together at mount st Joseph’s because I’m her sole care giver and I need to keep her with me. She’s declining so fast since our separation.
My new roommate should have been mom.
#cancersucks #mommasboyforlife
#sacredgrove
Newly planted sacred grove for Druid ceremonial space on what is colonially known as Capitol Hill, Burnaby, BC
With beaked hazels, pacific crabapple and European crabapple.
#celticpagan #druid #lookitssacredstupud
My songs!
Apologies for the bad recording - now I know not to attach the filming phone to the music stand the music is also on. :S
#songwriter #ukulele #trans #mad #disabled #pagan #music
Trigger warning: mentions of sanist, ableist and transphobic experiences of forced psychiatric “care”
Song for Shelter for Mad Folk
(in progress, working on arrangement and future ritual gift giving performance with accompaniment)
I’m taking out the 3rd verse, I think its too graphic
Long long song will be a long performance with little crabapple seedling gifts in pill bottles
I developed this song through a poetry workshop with @brandonwintpoet and 4 poems became a super long song/art performance concept.
see previous post for artist (sort of) statement
#madlivesmatter #donoharm
#acab #madpride #burnthedsm #psychiatricsurvivor #celticpagan #spirit #sing #singer #song #songwriter #art #performance #performer #artist #mad #neurospicy #neurodivergence #neurodiverse #neurodiversity #psychic #psychosis #celticspirituality #merlinwasmad
#burnthedsm
Working on creatively disassembling the DSM-5 (the diagnostic manual for mental health) into a flaming book.
This is part of a larger series of works called Shelter for Mad Folk, based on a Celtic pagan spiritual understanding of madness as a “passage through the otherworld,” symbolized by the crabapple branch with bells on it that make healing music.
What we call madness is a sacred way of knowing our ancestors understood far better than many of us do today: people hear voices, feel spirit, channel spirit beings and ancestors and animals and plants, see visions, and find themselves thrust into the otherworld without a map or with the only available map being a simple map of denialism that is the DSM-5.
Also loving the sparkly ethical mica BEAM Paints for a shiny fire! @beampaints
#psychiatricsurvivor #madman #druidry #celticpaganism
Shelter for Mad Folk project, in progress
There’s gonna be so many stars and crabapples and branches on this old red hoodie (pic # 2). I’m rescuing this from a forced treatment experience, when it was taken off without my consent in front of a lot of ER staff. Adornment as crip mad pagan protection magic. ⭐️🍎
Also creatively disassembling the DSM 5 to make a book on “fire” and use in collage for the drawing. I’m having fun using BEAM paints for the first time instead of acrylic @beampaints #beampaints
#burnthedsm
#madlivesmatter
#donoharm
#madpride
#celticpagan
#embroidery
#mad
#madliberation
#madjustice
#madpridemovement
#madness
Fun story fact: Merlin the psychic seer Druid was mad for a good while and decided to escape courtly life to live in the woods, and was also noted to take shelter under a crabapple tree during his madness.
Join us for an opportunity to be up close with these intricate works of papercutting and painting, both timely and timeless.
Shown: Liar Liar Democracy on Fire: The Art of Survival under Trump (2020)
A copy of Donald Trump’s The Art of Survival
Acrylic paint
(photo courtesy Jack Page)
Jack Page @jackpagepress is an interdisciplinary visual and performance artist--a transman, queer, physically disabled, chronically ill, psychiatric consumer and survivor.
Jack's art practice encompasses illustration, altered book art, papermaking, printmaking, photography, musical performance art, and Dis/Ability, Mad/Neurodiverse and 2SLGBTQIA+ community-based projects, in an art practice focused on minimizing waste by incorporating used, natural, and foraged materials, and upcycling waste products, such as paper and medical waste.
#indiebookstore #yourbookstore #queerbookstore #thelittlegallery #queerartist #transartist #foundobjectart #recycledbookart
“Books of Flame” Art opening at Cross & Crows queer bookstore @crossandcrows
Nov. 15 7pm
Featuring my “fire” books and musical performances by myself and Theo Blue.
This is my 2nd “firebook”: a destroyed copy of trump’s “the art of survival” I slowly sliced and diced and destroyed (without reading of course, it’s awful, and paid all of 25 cents for it towards the Mary Pack Arthritis Foundation - they sell used books sometimes). I use ‘the art of survival’ critique 45’s complete lack of care for those suffering under covid and his wilful ignorance of the many many thousands of lives lost because of his policies, removing USA from WHO, not letting science speak, blatantly disregarding people’s safety at his rallies, and propping up the terrible for profit healthcare system in the USA.
Until he is legally barred from holding office ever again (and preferably jailed), I need to find more used copies of Trump’s books to destroy and critique. I refuse to buy his crap new.
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