Two trans chancers writing criticism, with assimilationist tendencies

Born in Chengdu, Tingying Ma 马汀滢 writes, makes plays and dances in New York. As one half of the artist ensemble Future Host she is currently in Shandaken Project: Governors Island residency program. She works at Montez Press Radio with Stacy and Tom.

Lisa Selby and Elliot Murawski started telling their stories around their experiences of addiction, prison, recovery and love on 'bluebaglife’, their Instagram account. This account grew and began to offer the perspectives of people in prison, released from prison, as well as loved ones supporting, and all who experienced addiction in their lives. Bluebaglife is growing a community for the voices of others to connect and form a motivated support network, in the hope of undoing shame and implementing social changes. Currently Lisa and Elliot are working on a bluebaglife (offline) format for prison workshops and delivering talks around the UK.

Rene Matić (b. 1997, Peterborough) is an artist currently studying and working in London. Her work explores the immeasurable dimensions of Blackness through the lens of her own personal experiences as a queer, Black womxn living in the diaspora. In doing so, Matić aims to expose, combat and question the power relations that pervade the art world and society more widely.

Alix Jean Vollum is an artist and Ebay shopper. Until recently, she was living with her parents in Portland, Oregon. She now lives in New York.

Son Kit is an artist and designer from Los Angeles, currently moving between Providence, RI and Brooklyn, NY. Their interdisciplinary practice utilizes video, installation, illustration, and text to explore non-binary second-gen yellow narratives in pursuit a New Canon of Korean-American Speculative Fiction Authored Entirely by Them. Kit is a co-founder of Codify Art, a curatorial and producorial collective of and for Q/T/W/POC artists, and a co-founder of EST, a research collective investigating the intersection of Asia, technology, and racialized futurisms. At the moment, they are pursuing their MFA at RISD.

Liverpool born, London-based artist, Georgina Tyson's practice is performance based data mining; a self indulgent exercise of intense oversharing over the Internet and digital media.

Bella Milroy (born Sheffield 1991) is an artist who lives in her hometown of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. She works responsively with found and archived material through mediums of sculpture, drawings, photography, text and writing. Gardening is also an important part of her creative practice. Her work explores how we touch and make contact with the world around us, with the hand-held being of particular significance. Using her personal perspective as a framework for a wider reflection of contemporary living, she makes work about making work (and being disabled) and not being able to make work (and being disabled). She is interested in the duality of every-day existence, and how things can be both beautiful/painful, both interesting/dull. This process-based practice is fundamental to her as a disabled artist, utilizing and working with the significant limits and demands of living with a chronic condition, all mixed in with the detritus of domesticity.

Lætitia Paviani lives and writes in Paris. At the moment she has two jobs and one kid.

Claudia Pagès lives and works in Barcelona. Pagès works with text, publishing it through printed matter, installations and sonic readings. She normally works in specific contexts, but her focus of research and interests has been on language, talkable text and forms of contemporary distribution and circulation where labor and biopolitics are interlaced, working on living labour and its performative aspects and dead labour in relation to circulation.

Sondria is an author, filmmaker, mother, and member of the afrofuturistic art collective #SNATCHPOWER based in Southern California. Her latest collection of fiction “Unthinkable Acts” is available on Amazon, and her new collection “The Carverians” is set to release Spring 2019. She is also a freelance social media content provider and has maintained online personas for the band Earth Wind and Fire, and the Pan African Film Festival. Her musings can also be found in the current issues of Reflekt Magazine, Dryland Literary Magazine, and Cultured Magazine.

Adrianna Whittingham is a London based performance artist and writer. Through absurdist and often disgustingly personal and sensory narratives, she explores her fixation upon and meaningful interactions with green Granny Smith apples. Her writing is carried out using a typewriter, and makes reference to her cultural heritage, as well as having political undertones.