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Cupid’s got a big needle… and it’s cumming for you 🥵💉💦
Less than 2 weeks to go til the Valentine’s Night fundraiser party, all proceeds go towards helping me start hormone therapy.
If you can’t come on the night but still want to donate, there’s a gofundme link on the event page
🔗Link in bio🔗
To light up our night, the entertainment will be provided by:
@woommusic
Bisexual Blind Date (sign up to play!)
@margomool@footshootersound@__d_monk@avaloncafebermondsey
Plus there’ll be a raffle, crafty bits, and gorgeous decorations 😻
Come get hormonal on the dancefloor with us 😘
HRT FUNDRAISER PARTY
If you’re still on Insta & you see this, I’m running a party on Valentine’s Day and you should come ❤️ 💉🥵
All proceeds go towards helping me start hormone therapy, because 5 years on the waiting list is just too much 🏥😵
If you can’t come on the night but still want to donate, there’s a gofundme link on the event page
🔗Link in bio🔗
There will be games, there will be a raffle, and there will be this incredible lineup:
@woommusic
Bisexual Blind Date (sign up to play!)
@margomool@footshootersound@__d_monk@avaloncafebermondsey
Bring a date or find one on the dance floor 😘
Graphics by the incredible @bok_bindery aka @samsampetherbridge & @tim_boxall
TRANSCESTRY
If you do anything in central London this month, go to @museumoftransology 10 year exhibition at the Lethaby Gallery.
1000+ objects testifying to trans life and culture across the country, collected and curated by 1000+ volunteers. Trans history recorded by and for trans people.
So excited to be helping tell the story of this landmark moment in trans history, as part of its evaluation team!
Scenes from the launch:
1. Exhibition catalogue
2. Speaks for itself
3. @luce_delire
4. Protest placards & people
5. Silk screen by @fort.london
6. Entrance/Exit
THE AUTHOR AND HER GRAVES 📓 🪦 🐦⬛
So gassed to have published this piece with @wasafirimag
An experimental bit of life writing that plays with the bae Roland Barthes in search of new ways of surviving transphobia, all set in the graveyards of Lewisham.
Buy the mag or have a read online 😘
Community Across Time: Queer History and Creative Writing
I had the joy of facilitating my workshop on intimate queer/trans histories at a bunch of exciting places with a bunch of exciting people. We talked about the past, our for and fears of it, and the kind of truth that comes from these feelings.
3 workshops in 3 cities across 1 month - it was kinda like a lil tour! Anyway, here’s some snapshots.
1. Queer History Now symposium @mansfieldoxford
2. Flag on empire
3. Palestine camp at Freie Uni @fupalestinecommittee
4. Freie Universität, Berlin
5. Swimmer in lake
6. Quilt as placard
7. Conway Hall
Thank you to all the people who made it possible! Especially Matt Cook, @weightliftingjen@casbradbeer
Next workshop at the London Archives on 10th Aug! @ldnmetarchives
See you soon 😘⏳🌺
What a wild honour to be shortlisted for @fitzcarraldoeditions Essay Prize
Whether it goes any further, this is already a huge acknowledgment. Hopefully it will bring me one step close to an agent/publisher who understands the value of supporting experimental histories of trans life.
Understanding Eleanor is a book about trans history, erasure, and intimate connection across time. It uses unorthodox literary methods and sources to build an intimate biography of Eleanor Rykener, a transfeminine sex worker living in fourteenth-century England. Writing with and against the erasure that Eleanor faced – one that trans people continue to survive today – Understanding Eleanor looks to connect with the everyday realities of Eleanor’s life as they lived it. Its an attempt to write trans history not simply as the history of a category, but as a call to transhistorical relation, bringing bringing us into intimate connection with our trancestors.
Thanks to @donna.the.first & @bengry for helping me with my application.
POEM FOR A ZEN NUN
I sat on this for a long time, wondering if it would ever feel simple to post. Turns out it didn’t. But I remember reading it at @camptrans after a similarly open-handed (but much more explorative) piece by @malefragility - that felt nice. Maybe this will too?
Anyway, questions about connection and the us & them and the differences we manufacture.
Link in bio and here: tomaragarrod.substack.com/p/words-to-an-elder-zen-nun
Join us in celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month! 🏳️⚧️✨
Author Tomara Garrod @tomtheythem is hosting a writing workshop where we'll dive deep into Queer history through creative writing tools. 📝✨
Let's reflect on our connection to the past and its resonance with our present through immersive writing exercises with special insight into Trans medieval England.
No prior creative writing or history background needed—everyone's welcome! 🌈📚
🔗 Sign up with the link in bio
MAKING HISTORY, THIS TIME WITH FEELING
So gassed to be published in the @ti55ue anthology, collecting trans writers on the theme of "Making"
I wrote about trans history, and the erasure of everyday lives, and transhistorical feelings, and building relationships with our (tr)ancestors through the embodied realities we share (or dont). I also shared some of my research on the trans medieval and my growing relationship with Eleanor Rykener.
Grab yourself a copy, it's full of some of the hottest voices in the UK, and an important moment in trans expression
🛠📜🧡
MY BODY IS A CLOSET SHE BROKE INTO
With all the intensity of publishing a novel, I forgot to tell the matrix that I'm included in this gorgeous anthology by @carrionpress !
A bunch of very exciting writers all exploring themes of decay. My opportunity to dig into a time I got sexually assaulted in public and the way it spread death and dissociation across my body. Experimental shit for experiential madness.
Grab a copy at the link on the Carrion Press bio!
💀📓🕳
Wonderful review of THE UNDYING AUTHOR by @stickyfingerspublishing 😍
Apparently it has 'a circular timeline that plays its history out over and over,' so that 'South London is a walking memoir,' whose 'streets themselves are part library; stories live inside the body and Lewisham's cemeteries are populated with books instead of gravestones'
Special shout out to the 'sweet illustrations of' @samuelpetherbridge too!
You can pick up a copy at Sticky Fingers' Publishing Fair, this Sat 11th at @lewishamarthouse alongside some of the hottest names in underground publishing 🥵🥵
THE UNDYING AUTHOR
Nice to put our stamp on the world ;)
First books of The Undying Author posting out today - 2 days since launch and we've less than half the books left!
Get yours while you can at the link in the bio.
😘📖
