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MEET THE MAKERS

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Dandelions by Lucy Lamia Tatarusanu @lulu_brush

"I am a Romanian Amorfi-Gen Storyteller and Therapist who uses the artistic forms of film, pixel art, manga, music and performance to tell stories of often personal matters containing myths, mental health and symbolism. 

For the piece featured here, I remembered when I took a photo at the age of 5, in front of the kindergarten, with a dandelion. That is no longer me, but my brother, yet I still remember that little boy and his dandelion."

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Bathers – Oil on Canvas by Will J. Wood @will.j.wood

Will J. Wood is an emerging writer. A graduate of Cambridge University (where they studied poetry with Bhanu Kapil), Will's work explores the world around them and his queerness through the deep traditions of writing, letterpress printing and filmmaking. Their poems and short stories have been published in numerous magazines (Nea, Notes Mag), their short films have won awards and been shown at festivals around the world. They also edit Seedlings Magazine, a handmade publication trying to bring us closer to the natural world.

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Sex Does Not Answer Me by Dale Booton @dalebooton

Dale Booton (he/him) is a queer poet from Birmingham. His poetry is published by The North and Magma, and anthologised by Broken Sleep Books, Verve, Muswell Press, and Pan Macmillan. He has two pamphlets: ‘Walking Contagions’ (Polari Press) and ‘On This Stretch of Queerland’ (Fourteen Poems). He is a runner-up in the 2024 International Book and Pamphlet Competition.

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unicorn, prayer and embryo by Vic Brooks @vics_double_trouble

Vic Brooks is a duplicitous queer gender-shifter writer living in London, and parent to an octopod (small identical twins). Their novel, Silicone God, was published by MOIST Books (UK) and House of Vlad (US). Find their essays, short fiction and poetry in The Philosopher's Magazine, Wrong Directions, Midcult, Archer, t’ART, W0rms, SAND, Discount Guillotine, and elsewhere. You can find them on Instagram @vics_double_trouble.

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embryo and unicorn where first published by Discount Guillotine. prayer was first published by Dipity

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IDUMEA by Casper Orr @casper.orr

Casper Orr (he/him) is a Trans* and Disabled multi-genre writer and artist living in Philadelphia. He’s a Nonfiction Senior Editor for Fruitslice and Managing Editor of its sister publication, Noise Made By. A two-time Best of the Net nominated writer, he has work published or forthcoming in The Ex-Puritan, Hunger Mountain, Archer Magazine, Electric Literature, Heavy Feather Review, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, and more. He can be found on instagram: @casper.orr

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the family business by Libro Levi Bridgeman @librolevibridgeman

Libro Levi Bridgeman has written for BBC Radio 4 and they wrote the sell-out theatre show The Butch Monologues that toured for 10 years. Short stories include For Ezra, (Muswell Press) that was made into a stop motion film Grand Dandy. They co-run hotpencil press with Serge Nicholson. Publications include Letter To My Little Trans Self and Letter To My Little Trans Self . They are currently working on a TV series, Parker Parker.

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I am going to write a list by Allie Mica Oliver @allie.o__

Allie Mica Oliver is a London-based transfeminine writer who explores memory, gender, desire and the extraterrestrial. She’s drawn to mess, tenderness and absurdity.

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I Exist in First Person by Fiona Broadhurst @Fionarchist @Trans.Poetica

Mood killer. Vibe ruiner. Emotional fucker.

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Fiona Broadhurst is a queer, trans, disabled, poet writing about queer-love, anarchy, disability, and emotional shit™.

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Her first chapbook, Apocalyptic Aphorisms, was published by Back Room Poetry.

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She has featured at Incite, and Process. She is currently putting together an anthology of Trans+ poets, Trans Poetica, in collaboration with Punk Dust Poetry, Written Off, & Allographic.

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Knitting Botany Series by Ziyan Liu @_zilllllll_

Ziyan Liu is a London-based textile artist working across knitting, color, mixed media, and sculptural form. Using diverse materials and colorful compositions, she creates three-dimensional textiles that evoke the organic vitality of extraterrestrial plants. After graduating from the Royal College of Art (RCA), she established a knitting studio in London, where she has introduced around 200 enthusiasts to the art of textile making, and she is now pursuing her PhD in Design at the RCA.

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As a knitting artist, Liu was invited to develop the Knitting Cactus series for Meadow Serenade 24A/W, which was first exhibited in Italy and subsequently shown at the Fiber & Fabric Art and Design Exhibition and the Fashion Source Annual Knitting Trend Exhibition. Her hybrid work Knitting Glass was presented in the art exhibition Everywhere You Go, reflecting her interest in expanding the boundaries of material practice.

Her works have also been featured in international fashion and art publications, including L’Officiel Australia, THE ICON China, MARIKA Magazine, and YRAN Magazine.

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Through these exhibitions and publications, Liu continues to develop a distinctive voice in contemporary textile art, blending traditional craft with experimental approaches to reimagine knitting as a medium of sculptural and multisensory expression.

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(For Arlo Parks) and Long Gone Victory Days by Finn O'Callaghan-Doyle @demibroseph

Finn O’Callaghan-Doyle (they/he) is a queer writer and LGBTQ+ advocate from Lincolnshire, England.  Their work is often on the gothic side, always queer, and draws heavily on subjects such as identity, body image and their Irish heritage.

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Becoming or a Study in Interference by Luan A. Dannerbauer @luantifa

Luan Aurel is a writer, illustrator, and researcher based in Vienna, Austria. They hold a BA in theatre, film and media studies and are pursuing graduate degrees in gender studies and critical studies, focusing on trans studies, crip strategies, and artistic interventions. For several years, Luan was a magazine editor, and now organizes lectures and workshops. Luan works at a bookstore and dislikes podcasts, but is trying to get into them. 

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Angel’s Spit by Tessi Tricks

Tessi is a queer, non-binary person. This is their first poem. 'Angel's Spit' begins a Testogel journey, tracing the tenderness of pregnant selves, loss, love and letting go.

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Utopia by Lou Brown / Goodstrangevibes @goodstrangevibes

I’m a non binary artist, I mostly share visual art but I’ve journalled/written a lot in my life as a way to self soothe and process and am starting to share more words:)

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Demons by Stephanie Jones @meetmissjonesny

Stephanie Jones has bylines in The New York Times, DownBeat, NPR, The Detroit Free Press & elsewhere. Her poems appear/are forthcoming in Four Tulips, Querencia Press, New Feathers Anthology, Eye to the Telescope, Entre: Magazine of the Arts, Crow & Cross Keys, Nulla & elsewhere, and as a commission for Blue Note Records. 

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brined by Al Kramer @x_kramer_

I am a nonbinary writer, poet, artist, and music journalist who strives to conjure visions of things gagged, romanticized, and unknown. Though I mostly write in the horror genre, I am a big old fanboy for all the brilliant trans art I can get my hands on.

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Meetha and (m)othering by Lavanya Arora @lavaurora

I'm an independent queer researcher and writer from India. My literary work has either been published or is forthcoming in Frontier Poetry, Queer Verse, Poetry with Pride, Tamarind Literary, among others. 

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no one knows HE died by SkyE @jands.arts

SkyE is a transdisciplinary queer artist living and creating in Los Angeles for two decades. Journey to their website to learn more.

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cycles by kodi shields @kodi.shields

i am a queer, nonbinary deaf writer from sunny paisley, scotland!! i love reading, and writing whatever my little ADHD brain creates. one thing i never shut up about is my girlfriend, i am obsessed with her <333

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Untitled Works by Matt Porter

Before moving into animation background art and design Matt was a puppeteer and a painter. His devotion to pencil and paints appears presently to have overpowered his peepers propensity to peer at his 'puter screen.

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Write for Me by Chris Hale @Apple.orange.grapefruit

Chris Hale is a multimedia artist and poet trying to survive the oil capital of Europe. She explores the intersectional themes of contemporary trans life and mental illness.

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Maybe, Sliding Doors by Reshma Johar @reshmajohar

I am a queer South Asian woman. I work full-time as a tax consultant. Over the years, I have been making up stories for the kids in my life. I am now starting my journey in creative writing and seek to focus on personal experiences over the years of being the 'other'. 

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Sun by Ananiah Jacob

Ananiah (she/her) is a poet and artist from India who loves coffee, cats, and turning messy minds into stranger metaphors. Her work drifts through spirituality, abandonment, yearning, and that fragile line between tenderness and self-preservation.