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S.PONY is an analogue, anti-AI, portrait photographer who often tiptoes the line between fine art and playful smut. They are most inspired to photograph their own communities: QT folks, punky freaks, and sex workers. 
ALEX MURPHY is a photographer based in London. You’ll find them at gigs, protests and pride marches across the country with their film camera, or at the local queer club asking a drag queen for her portrait or a close up of her f*ck-off platform boots. 
JESSICA PIZZO, otherwise known as The Kinky Therapist, is a sex therapist with over a decade in practice. They are passionate about combating the stigma and shame associated with diverse expressions of sexuality. 
LUZI is a photographer, filmmaker and poet whose work explores identity, societal norms, as well as dreamlike worlds and underground subcultures. 
NELL KERR is a self-taught artist born and raised in Seattle, working primarily in acrylic self-portraiture and indie zine print. His work seeks to bridge the gap between mind and body. 
NIX is a queer multidisciplinary artist and activist who specialises in kink and fetish photography, erotic poetry and focuses on platforming marginalised identities in all of their work. 
WINNONA HEDGELAND (@foundry.wench) is a transfem Illustrator and Blacksmith, who’s work explores mythology, history, fantasy and gender. 
VINYA PAULA MARGAUX SEVERIN is a conceptual artist, fashion designer, and performer. In her work, she frequently draws on her own experiences as a trans woman. 
SULTRYTING is a Creative Director & Multidisciplinary Artist. 
MAYA FITCH is a Queer poet and multimedia artist based in Oklahoma. Their poetry explores conceptions of gender, eroticism, spirituality, and community from a deeply personal lens. 
HEATHER GAINEY is a Hull/London-based multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, & photographer. Her work operates as a site for the embodiment of emotional & sensory interiority, the romantic, and the hyper-empathic, often subverting the traditional heteronormative gaze. 
CLOVER CHOMETA writes both short fiction and poetry. She writes from deeply religious East Texas Her work focuses on gender, sex, and kink largely through the lens of religiosity. 
RACHEL JEAN enjoys exploring realism and expressionism to create moving portraits. She often focuses on raw, candid moments intended to push boundaries and bring social issues to light. 
ELIZA AYAKO is an experimental, multi-disciplinary, Japanese-American artist working out of the Bay Area. She aims for her audience to feel seen, soothed, and satiated by her work. IG: @elizaayakoart 
Deen and Kitty (D DEVOURS KITTY) are two Sex Pirates zooming through the Traniverse. 
CAMILLA LOHMANN is a Danish photographer and artist based in Copenhagen. They work with themes such as inner darkness, identity, gender, queerness, representation and diversity. 
KEANA (@_callofthev0id) is a self-taught artist processing the tribulations growing up queer in rural east germany, reconnecting with herself and reclaiming life, powered by queer joy, love and caffeine. 
DONALYN WHITE is a teacher, Ph.D student, and tender of archives living in Southern California. Their work can be found in academic periodicals, poetry magazines, and leftist journals. 
MADISON FURNESS is a multidisciplinary artist, based in Manchester. Taking inspiration from gothic art and culture, they explore art direction, fashion photography and have curated multiple magazines. 
MAXINE LYRATA is a trans woman living on unceded Dena’ina land with four rowdy animals and her wife. She likes to write about sex, transition, death, illness, and divinity. 
SARAH JAMES ROMAN is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. Her art weaves together themes of femininity, desire, and memory into a world where beauty collides with the grotesque and the violent. 
MATTIYA ROSA is a lesbian, a New Mexican, a lyricist, and a pantheist. She loves hardcore music, sacrilege, and playing with her band psycho and girls. IG: @vamptiya 
VIC ANDROS is a transgender artist from Romania. They love exploring their identity through photography and expressing their emotions. 
ALLYKAT is a mixed media artist who uses recycled materials to create collage, gelli prints, black-out poetry and self portrait photography. She focuses on body image, sexuality, kink and self-expression. 
ANGEL LOVELY is a Black queer artist and writer who centers Black and Indigenous queer narratives to document forgotten and erased people, stories and histories. They are interested in work that incorporates and affirms decolonial, anti-colonial, and Indigenous practices. 
MALACHI is a zinemaker, collage artist, and poet from the American Midwest. Their work thematically includes queer identity, religion, sexual pleasure, and reclamation of bodily autonomy. 
LILI MINATO is an illustrator based out of the PNW. Her work is often colorful and covers topics surrounding the queer identity, horror, and more. 
MELISSA LETO uses pleasure rituals in her art making. Her art focuses on the overlappings of queer desire, kink, joy, love, and nature. 
SIENNA GALLUS is an emerging poet and undergraduate student studying Psychology with minors in Women and Gender Studies, Religious Studies, and English at Manhattan University in the Bronx, New York. 
RIPLEY FLETCHER is a painter and writer based in East London, who works predominantly with watercolour and risograph print making. Their practice is fueled by an on-going enquiry into the history of queerness in folk culture, and explores community history and storytelling through mythological allegory and contemporary reflection. 
KAL HOLDER is a poet and journalist who writes stories that fall into the realms of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. They are based in St. Louis Missouri. 
SELINA SHAW is a love witch and writer of romance and horror expressing queer femme delight, hunger and power. Her art and spirituality explores rewilding the self through the erotic. 
KIERAN SCHMIDT is an emerging artist from Ontario who expresses their identities through any and all kinds of visual media. They find joy in the weird and whimsical. (linktr.ee/kieranschmidt) 
ANNIKA SIMMONS is a gender fluid, queer artist and designer from the Midwest creating fashion as a tool for radical self-acceptance and expression. 
FREDDIE is a queer poet who writes about bodies, queerness, transness, sex, trauma and mental health. They write to heal, to grow and because it brings them joy. 
DEBRA ANDERSON is the recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s, ‘Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers.’ Code White (McGilligan Books) is her first novel. 
KIRI SCHRADER is a self-taught artist from Finland, taking inspiration from their own experience of being trans, as well as queerness, kink, and medieval motifs. 
RIN MARTIN is a multi-media artist born and based in Miami, Florida. Their work explores Queer identity and spirituality as forms of resistance. They have exhibited at The Laundromat Art space and Permitted, a reoccurring guerrilla pop-up. 
RO is a nonbinary multidisciplinary illustrator. Their passion lies within creating imperfect compositions, depicting LGBTQIA+ people and queer experiences through experimental shapes and textures. 
SAUL A. BREEDEN is a transmasc butch poet and lover of every aspect of queer love and eroticism.
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JJ KONDRATYEVA is a multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer whose practice reclaims narratives historically pushed to the margins. Utilizing visceral, radical imagery, they employ confrontation as a medium to shatter the safety of passive viewing. Their work frames institutional power, the body, and the self as active battlegrounds. 
“cassiasdaughter”, Kezia, is a tattooist, anti-disciplinary artist, and creative practitioner. Having co-founded the Black Radical Arts Community (BRAC), Kezia’s work seeks to provide space and time for creative critical gatherings, resource sharing, and co-learning that expands, reflects, and digests Black art, aesthetics and Black radical traditions. 
As a queer photographer, CHARLOTTE MONTAGNE-MAS has developed a socially engaged practice that explores contemporary social and cultural issues. Through a queer gaze and participatory approach, they work with the people they photograph to question sexualities, gender identities, relationships with the body, nature, and feminist and queer struggles. 
CHROME is a lesbian afro-boricua freelance illustrator, photographer, and printmaker located in the United States. When not covered in ink or entrenched in darkroom chemicals, they can be found gardening with a focus on native plants to help revitalize native Appalachian biodiversity and support endangered pollinators. Instagram: @Chromemonger Website: https://www.artbychrome.com 
RAQUEL SIMÕES (PleasureUntil4Ever) is an analogue photographer from Toronto, Canada whose work documents eroticism & identity/expression within the 2SLGBTQ+ community. They create intimate portraits that celebrate sexuality and the raw power of self-confidence. 
TOBY BARTLETT is a queer transmasculine photographer. Toby’s most recent project, ‘Bound’, is an ode to his girlhood/an attempt to stay connected to his femininity after his transition. 
BANANA HOLDWIN is a multi-disciplinary Queer artist based in South-East London. Holdwin strives to create artwork which is inclusive and engaging for a diverse audience. They are fascinated by the link between emotion and motion, a common theme in their work. 
BECK SNEDDON’s focus is on capturing self-expression and authenticity. Instagram @Beck_Sneddon_photography. 
HARA GHAN is a photographer developing a practice around the documentation of specific individuals and social groups on the fringes of mainstream representation. Through a methodology that blurs the lines of the private and the public; personal struggle and collective joy; the theatrical and the improvised, they paint a seemingly uncompromising yet socially aware portrait of often hermetic communities. 
After obtaining a master’s degree with honours in photography from University of the Arts London, ARIANNE CLÉMENT travelled far and wide to find inspiration, often getting involved in humanitarian projects with the marginalized, her preferred subjects. She now devotes her work principally to portraying the elderly. 
REN MARROW is a genderfluid anarchist living rurally in mi’kma’ki (nova scotia). they are a writer and creator who is always finding ways to weave in new mediums. inspired by the land and the rebels who walk it, ren creates art that explores the intersection of destruction and creation. encouraging criticism and curiosity, detangling the narratives we are force-fed, their work invites you to contemplate what you want to burn and what you want to build. 
Noel (ANGELBOI) is a non-institutionally trained artist engaging with small, everyday practices of resistance and queer inside jokes. Their photographs, linocuts, fabric collages, and drawings often function as documents of daily life or visualizations of diary entries. Say hi on Instagram @_principito161 
ELIE CHAMMAA uses painting as a way to understand who they are and where they come from. Elie grew up in a strict Christian environment and within the instability of Lebanon, which shaped their sense of difference, control, and independence. These tensions appear in Elie’s paintings through recurring elements such as male bodies, horses, mountains, and water. 
MADELINE ROSE FIORE is a writer, director, photographer, and multidisciplinary artist. With a background in Journalism and a commitment to authentic queer storytelling, Madeline creates work that centres honesty, community, and the narratives she longed to see growing up. Follow Madeline on Instagram to stay updated with her journey: @madelinerosefiore. 
ABEL BERGLUND is a queer and trans person from Sweden. Besides dance and photography, they have developed a love for sculpting and experimenting with how one can be maximalist and minimalist at the same time. IG @abel.juno.blund 
SALEM PAIGE is a poet and multidisciplinary artist based on traditional Coast Salish territories (so-called Vancouver, British Columbia). Their works revolve around the exploration of identity and discomfort, often through natural and technological worlds, and can be found in their debut collection of poetry, The Third Self (2023, Sunday Mornings at the River Press). More on Salem can be found at salempaige.com or @corpseofapoet 
TEA NOVOSEL is a lesbian artist living in Germany. Her work emerges straight from the gut — from inner pressure, unrest, and subjects often left unspoken, such as mental health, social structures, and the ways “normality” excludes. Her practice produces uncompromising statement pieces — not to please, but to disturb, provoke, and open questions. Tea is socially critical because “everyone is human” is still not enough. IG: @mehmyselfandwhy JESSICA PIZZO, otherwise known as The Kinky Therapist, is a sex therapist with over a decade in practice. They are passionate about combating the stigma and shame associated with diverse expressions of sexuality. 
Suzie, “THE NAKED ARTIST,” is a self-taught Artist and photographer. Their life narrative focuses on the mind and exploring the emptying of feelings and emotions through self-expression. They started their journey in 1997 and over the years have accomplished a lot through the LGBTQ scene, published art and a variety of solo and joint shows. 
MAYA BEAUCHAMP is a Painter, Interdisciplinary Artist and Drag Performer based in Edinburgh. She loves queer archives, layers of paper pulp from posters torn off a wall, vampires, sci-fi and religious kitsch. She’s soon to graduate from her BA(Hons) in Painting from the Edinburgh College of Art and has exhibited across the Scottish art scene. She hosts a drag and burlesque night called SKIN as the king Tainted Love. 
PHOEBE LOCKSTONE is a queer, neurodivergent photographer, based in London. Their work explores identity and is inherently political. Phoebe draws inspiration from all aspects of life, especially music, religion, history, nature and sexuality, as they examine the connections between them. 
TIFFANY FISHLEIGH is a Manchester-based painter creating bold, expressive statement art that explores kink, feminine sensuality and form. Through her art, Tiffany aims to celebrate diversity, empowerment, body positivity, and unapologetic creative rebellion. IG: @NXSTYGALNOODZ 
SANCH KAY is a queer Brooklyn-based artist and therapist. Their current artistic focus has been paper and book arts. They are an emotion-to-color and music-to-color synesthete; this inescapable experience has create an insatiable desire to keep creating. Sanch enjoys exploring complex relationships and juxtaposing seemingly incongruent entities to show connections of different flavors. IG: @sanch.kay 
COFFEE (thelastmimzy) is a Kuala Lumpur-based artist whose work navigates the friction between reality and imagination. Rooted in punk culture, his practice is defined by bold, monochromatic sketches that use raw, unpolished lines to confront societal flaws with unapologetic honesty. 
EVANGELINE GALLAGHER is an award-winning US illustrator and artist based in Baltimore City. They make art about being sad, being happy, nature, kink, and lots of other things too. 
LOMOMOLO is a non-binary artist and 3D illustrator from Brazil specializing in vibrant character design and textures. With a background in fashion and costume design, lomomolo explores bold palettes across digital media. Having collaborated with global brands like Spotify, Adobe, and Nickelodeon, their work blends technical skill with expressive storytelling. 
KRIS KRASNOPOLSKA is a queer photographer and artist from Ukraine. Her work explores themes of body, self-expression, identity, womanhood, gender, social norms, trust, home spaces, and sexuality. Her values lie in trust, diversity, and acceptance. 
OH REBECCA! is a writer and performer. Background in Literature/linguistics and creative writing. She/her. From Alvaston Derby, UK., Living in Stockholm. Her writing explores love, shame, identity, queerness, class, power, and abuse. Find her @ohrebecca__ 
IZZY STARK is a visual artist located in Sarasota, FL. Izzy’s work is rooted in the blunt, often humorous narrative of their own lived experiences. They create pieces that react to and reflect the world around them, each one a response to their present environment and the stories it holds. Their works act as both mirror and filter, a way to process themes of womanhood, queerness, and the forces that challenge their identity. http://www.averageizzy.com 
RIHAN JANTJIES is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, installation, and spatial intervention. Drawing from lived experience as a femboy and a background in professional men’s artistic gymnastics, Rihan’s work reflects on the tension between past and present selves, and the shifting conditions under which the body is recognised. 
MERCY VIGIL is a nonbinary mixed media artist and model based in London with specialisations in photography, painting, embroidery, and SFX cosmetic application. They draw inspiration from their love of fashion and the exploration of showing the human condition and bodies in all its forms, unafraid to be themselves. They are heavily into the body modification/piercing subculture as it helps them express their gender identity. 
MARIE KOEDER is a transmasc nonbinary boxer and artist from southern Germany. Their work reflects their existence between binaries and their desire to form community and relationships that divert from normative thinking. 
MIKHAMIK is a non-binary queer Venezuelan artist, educator, and community builder based in Minneapolis. Their work explores the intersections of queerness, migration, faith, and survival through photography, sculpture, and participatory installations. Mikhamik is the founder of Mikhamik House of Arts, a platform dedicated to uplifting LGBTQIA+ and bipoc stories through radical art, healing, and visibility. http://www.mikhamik.com 
OSCAR WILLIAM CLARKE is a London-based artist who specialises in fashion, comic, horror and BDSM art. They love bold work, and their influences stem from who they are, a queer comic fan. Recently, Oscar has been recreating a series of their own short comic stories. Follow them on Instagram @oscarclarkeillustration to see where the journey takes them. 
BEA BIRDIE is a fat femme genderqueer multidisciplinary creative whose vision is focused on the relationship between self expression and desire. Through her art, she explores narratives of shame, ego, eroticism, identity, and rebellion, and takes pride in queering the image of glamour. 
JOANA PEREIRA DA COSTA is a performance-based multidisciplinary artist working between Lisbon and London. Her practice explores the intersection of body, memory, and resistance, drawing on lived experience and feminist and queer philosophy. 
REBECCA LONGACRE is an artist from East Texas and a BFA candidate at the University of Texas at Tyler. In her work, she uses sculpture and drawing to depict topics that relate to social and political issues such as gender inequality, wealth disparity, and government overreach. Rebecca’s personal and art-focused Instagram accounts are @rookydoodle and @rookydoodleart 
SALIVYYY is the creative project of Ale Cabiddu, a queer contemporary figurative painter and visual artist born in Sardinia, Italy, and based between Sardinia and Vancouver, Canada. Her work investigates the tensions of contemporary life and society, perceived as a liminal space between reality and artificial construction. Through painting, she reflects on the uncertainty of personal identity in an era increasingly shaped by algorithms. 
SID WHITE’s work aims to bridge the man-made gaps created by the patriarchal institutions we live under by showcasing both their own experience and their community’s diverse expressions of gender and sexuality. 
MARÉ is a queer Portuguese artist, designer and non-formal educator. She is part of multiple collectives and NGOs that support discriminated people, fight for human rights and climate change. Find more of her work on Instagram at @marecreativestudios 
NOAH DAVID ROBERTS (they/them) is a non-binary poet & event organizer. NDR is the author of several poetry collections, including GUNK & SWARM. Roberts has poems published in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Troublemaker Firestarter, Big Scream, and more. They are the founder of SCRIBES. Find them on Substack at SCRIBES WORLD. 
OLGA OLDŻ PORCZYŃSKA is a queer artist, vegan, eco- and anarchist activist. In her art, she focuses primarily on the aesthetic aspect, especially light and colours, but also takes on topics close to her heart, while dreaming of a better world. She is absorbed in close-ups of nature to the point of abstraction and dissects the world into its prime factors. 
Arang Djati (RIZQIA ADJAM) is a queer poet from a third-world country. Through their words, they attempt to immortalize the mundane and the marginalized, even when the world serves them nothing but zeroes on their plate in return. But Arang Djati doesn’t care, they keep writing – and that is so punk. Instagram: @dansadanrevolusi 
CAITLIN JAMES-POCOCK is a queer Welsh artist, whose day job is in musical theatre but has recently reconnected with her passion of drawing. Her art combines a plethora of different things from bugs, animals and in this example queer culture. She sells prints of her work through her Instagram and Etsy store @starzandswirlz. 
LADY CHILANE, a Joshua Tree glam icon, drag performer, and producer, is known for her dazzling stage presence and signature blend of camp, glamour, and high-desert mystique. She is the creator and host of Lady Chilane’s Cabaret at Mojave Gold in Yucca Valley, a live variety show celebrating drag, music, comedy, and community artistry. 
SAM FURNEY is an Australian-born contemporary dancer and interdisciplinary artist currently based in Amsterdam. They studied at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London, graduating in 2024. Their work currently explores the intersection of materiality and the political through writing, photography and dance. They are inspired to create surreal, nostalgic and compositional work. 
DOMINIQUE DE MARTIIS is a multimedia artist whose practice investigates duality, perception, and mortality, exploring the delicate tensions between inner and outer worlds, presence and absence. Through their explorations, they examine the spaces where memory and reality intertwine. 
Ca Smyth is responsible for @SKIN_STITCHES, an eclectic collection of leatherwork and visual art formed from the clash of industry, subculture and fetish. Finding inspiration everywhere from the trends of the 60s to the boots of the Pacific Northwest, Ca is hunting for Beauty in the Filth. 
THEO DAMASCO is a 23-year-old non-binary art educator, visual artist, animator and producer, constantly growing. Instagram @_theocracia 
TURA is an experimental multidisciplinary artist and tattooer whose work spans illustration, mixed media, self-portraiture, film and graphic design. Their work interrogates power, surveillance, gender, and autonomy through raw visual language rooted in grunge and distortion. 
SIOBHAN PATTON is a poet and advocate from the southern continent of Australia. Cutting her teeth on drag scratch nights, her work can entertain as well as inspire. She embodies trans experience and captures queer perspectives on culture and conditions, straddling satire and sincerity. 
SAB GH is a passionate artist from Italy that focuses on creating visually striking compositions that merge design, art and creativity. 
BOBBIE WEBB is a Notts based creative who likes to play with words, photos, films, theatrics, drag, and textiles. They are drawn to our silly little existences and how bloomin’ magical it all is. 
OLGA SOROKINA is a Russian-born artist based in London. Her work explores sexuality, the body and the tension between visibility and disappearance. 
LYDIA FRANCIS is a digital artist hailing from Nashville, TN. The subject matter within her work varies, but revolves around themes of identity and togetherness. Lydia is a freelance designer, based in Galway, and working in STEM, the influences of which creep their way into her art frequently. Her art is heavily featured on the independent music zine Galway Squawk, a project of which she is the lead designer. 
MARÍA VERÓNICA SOMOZA is a Venezuelan artist working across mixed media to observe the body, domestic moments, and the textures of everyday life. Her practice lingers on the present (on food, spaces, bodies, and fleeting gestures) often paired with intimate poetry and handwritten texts in Spanish. Together, image and language create quiet but emotionally charged narratives. 
MAGGIE LOVE is a Los Angeles-based painter who specializes in pin-up art and animated horrors. She has participated in group shows across the country, depicting the female form as self-reliant and liberated. Maggie Love aims to popularize the depiction of female relationships in fine art. Prints and original work can be purchased from her website, http://maggielovewashere.etsy.com 
ASH ROUSE is a queer photographic artist who, since 2020, have exclusively photographed LGBTQ+ community members. Their work has been recently featured in The Sex Gap Zine, Sprout Society Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, TranMag NYC, and the Museum at FIT. 
KRISTINA EMILOVA is a mixed media surrealist artist based in London. Her work visualises raw emotional states through surreal, symbolic compositions drawn from dreams and the inner mind. 
NICKY MILLER is a Berlin-based genderqueer artist, filmmaker, and music performer. Born in France near Paris and of Vietnamese origin, their work moves fluidly between cinema, performance, and music. Their work explores queer narratives and non-conforming sexualities, blending fiction with mythological impulses through a poetic and pornographic aesthetic. https://www.nickymiller.org/ 
LEE MARTÍNEZ SOTO (they/ellx) is a queer, bilingual Mexican-American poet and translator whose works centers on the transfronterize experience—life in the Mexico-U.S. border and the liminal space it creates—and the intersections with identity, generational trauma, and healing. 
VIC BROOKS is a nonbinary boy writer living in London and parent to small identical twins. Vic writes queer poetry about twin parenthood and being/becoming a nonbinary boy. They also write essays about queer community and ethics. You can find them on Instagram @vics_double_trouble and vicbrooks.net 
ZEENOMORPH is a non-binary mixed media artist from the UK whose work focuses on packing a punch. Visually striking, they are known for their use of textiles and stencils, blending intense energy with extreme precision to tell stories of identity, human nature and sex. Their inspiration comes from the rise in purity culture, using their art as an outlet to express their desire for a more hedonistic world. Check their art out at zeenomorph_art on insta. 
ZARA TURRELL is a photographer who captures the intimacy and tenderness of queer relationships. Through emotionally driven portraiture, she documents the quiet moments of love, vulnerability, and connection within queer communities. 
LIZ JOHNSON is an illustration student based in Surrey with a style influenced by everything they love. They have an interest in all forms of art, from illustration, fashion, sculpture, printing and more! Their work centres around design, horror, femininity, and queer expression. INSTAGRAM – @DIPALOTO 
LIBERTY BROOKE is a queer, political poet and essayist based in the American Midwest. She whole-heartedly believes that art, the very act of creation itself, is inherently meant to forge communities–that a poet’s place is always with their people. She can be contacted via IG: apoetinflames or email [apoetinflames@gmail.com]. 
Born and raised in the subtropics, KIRA GONDECK-SILVIA might’ve ended up at Salpêtrière in another era. Today, she channels visual energy into human-centered design, chats with the dead, and carries a mountain of student debt. She lives in Central Florida with her musician/writer husband, four cats she puts bandanas on, and a neurotic dog. 
KNOWN is an AuDHD lesbian artist from Sydney, Australia. KNOWN describes their art practice as a multidimensional experience, and explores their sexuality and sensuality through their art process. KNOWN is currently working on their ‘One with nature’ and ‘Show me heaven’ series’, which challenge heteronormative ideologies. 
CHANTAE DAVIES is a Welsh Queer writer who specialises in short fiction exploring small town queer spaces and experiences. The aim of her writing is to explore the lesser known narratives whilst exploring political and socioeconomic views that align closely with her pro-rights values. You can find more of her work and projects on her instagram @c.davies_writes 
Emily, of DEADLY DESIRES SHIBARI ART, is a visual artist specialising in shibari portraiture. Understanding the impact of recognising oneself in kink art to help eliminate the often internalised shame which represses the ability to be sexually confident, she strives to showcase a diverse range of under-represented groups in her work. 
DAWN BRUWIER is a 21yo late-diagnosed autistic student artist based in Ghent. Her main focus in her drawings is to create a shock factor, often getting inspirations from queer subcultures and cinema. Through her drawings she tries to convey certain feelings and desires that she cannot portray in real life. You can find more of her art @stiekemnachtlampje . 
AVA COSTELLO O’REILLY is a 19 year old artist from Co. Roscommon, Ireland. They have loved art from a young age and currently studying art in college. Ava’s main mediums are illustration, collage, and digital illustration. Find Ava on Instagram: @thatsgnarlybabe and Etsy: SolarStrays. 
ALAYA IDREES is a mixed media artist combining traditional media to explore the blurred lines between childhood nostalgia and the complex navigation of adulthood. Through kitsch aesthetics and fantastical imagery, she weaves her lived experiences from the United States and Pakistan, reflecting on the emotional dichotomy of alienation and connection in identity. She is currently pursuing her Master of Arts in Art and Design. 
AAKANSKHA BORTHAKUR is a 21-year-old Indian character designer, photographer, writer and artist currently pursuing an animation degree in Germany. For more info, check out their website: https://aakanskhaborthakur.myportfolio.com/ 
Born in 1996 and based in France, AME BLARY is a queer photographer whose work lies at the intersection of politics and intimacy. Through her photographs, she opens up breaches: spaces where queer bodies become visible, desiring, tired, flamboyant, and where each image becomes as much a political gesture as a poem. 
ALYCIA VARGAS is a San Antonio based mixed media artist and activist who lives with chronic pain. She regularly draws inspiration from everyday life with her loving wife and three dogs. She can be contacted on Instagram @art_by_vargas. 
EMMA CUSWORTH (@celestials.phase) is a trans sculpture artist based in Manchester UK. Through arrangements of twisted figures and celestial bodies, her work explores the pursuit of alignment central to the queer experience. 
NADENE MICKLEWRIGHT is a multimedia artist who is fascinated by the impact of Y2K and McBling culture from the 2000s. Her work revolves heavily around her personal interests, which is expressed through her collection of merchandise and large collection of vinyl records. 
BEKKA is a self-taught queer artist from Berlin, Germany. They create intimate images celebrating the freedom and fluidity of FLINTA bodies and their interactions with one another. Find Bekka on Instagram @bekka.pics 
ARTEMISIA DE BROWNING is a writer and designer. Her poetry focuses on gender, trauma, and how violence as expression can be both a tool to understand, but also subjugate the fundamentals of life. 
MASON SHEVLIN [he/they] is a Visual Artist and Photographer based in Belfast. His work focuses on social belonging, personhood, and identity that they explore through lens-based mediums and the subject matter of the Self-Portrait. Working both with digital and instant film photography, their work often incorporates embroidery or mark-making techniques as a means of expressing queer existence. [Instagram: mason.ire] 
Rae White is a queer non-binary transgender writer, and author of Milk Teeth, Exactly As I Am, and All the Colours of the Rainbow. They are the Creative Director and Founder of Uplift Poetry, and the Founding Editor of #EnbyLife Journal. 
MARIA KONTOMARI is a multimedia artist based in Germany. They are inspired by queer intimacies and the utopias within autonomous safe spaces. 
TOMMY WYATT BLAKE (they/he) is the author of NECROPIA (dogleech books), FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT! (Troublemaker Firestarter), Mutually Assured Destruction (Ethel Zine), and others. He is currently synthesizing digital archives, confines of the body, and manipulated time. 
JENNY DAVALA is a folk musician and YouTuber from Scranton, PA. Much of her work can be found on YouTube or Instagram @JennyDavala 
RORY PRYOR, aka Paper Magpie, rifles through the refuse to salvage their materials — images of bodies, skies, land formations, and light patterns. Their collage practice seeks to rend and reimagine the queer body, the trans body, the lesbian body. They live in Boston. 
ROBIN GREEN is drawn to abstract art. They focus on political art and stuff that brings them joy. 
ZORYANA CHERWICK is a queer, nonbinary Ukrainian-Canadian artist whose work celebrates both softness and rebellion. Drawing from cultural roots and personal narrative, their art explores identity, neurodivergence, and connection. 
As a transmasc artist, MILAN CIELO loves to see how they can inspire others to explore their own self-expression. 
KARIS CRIMSON is a Gloucestershire-based creative working in mixed media. Their ongoing project, Let the Body Believe It, explores lineage, memory, breath, and defiant embodiment. 
MIA COLEMAN is a mixed media artist based in Brighton and Birmingham, drawing inspiration from surrealism. They have particular interest in mythology, music, psychology, and self-perception, all of which they enjoy incorporating into their art. IG: @_mrc_art_ 
Naansbrood (21, they/them) is a queer transmasculine artist with work embodying queer identity and the world around them. 
KAT is a queer punk artist from the UK. They have always had a fascination for religious iconography and their work often attempts to bastardize it and frame it within a queer lense to subvert the original rigid patriarchal structure. 
ELLE BEAU’s personal practice is sporadic and in flux: they’re not one to sit still. Lines of queer thinking, relational spaces, language, intimacy, gender, aesthetics, colour, expressions of self, people and movement inform Elle’s work.
QUEER RESISTANCE
Nix is a body-neutral photographer who likes to shoot fellow queer kinky folk in all their glory. The aim of their art is to create a consensual, silly, safe space for models to be their authentic selves. There is so much pressure to present a certain way, especially as non-binary individuals, so Nix likes to capture who they work with in their fullness, no matter the narrative of how the world might see them. 
Jesse Hill is a transdisciplinary writer exploring creative catharsis, ecological connection, and queerness. They teach Creative Writing at Edge Hill University whilst working on their posthuman ecofeminist PhD. Their debut short poetry collection is set to be released in 2026 by Broken Sleep Books. Connect with them on Instagram @sabbatverse, for the love of mycelium. 
Ale Pedraza Buenahora is a non-binary journalist, self-taught photographer, and multidisciplinary artist interested in redefining standard approaches to visualisation and storytelling with an axis fixed in experiences outside the status quo. 
Jackson Banfield is a queer artist, model, singer and dancer. Bold and fierce, they unapologetically create through their queerness to push boundaries and express themselves. 
Art is the core reason for Donnie O’Brien’s existence. They have worked in many different mediums over the years, but nothing speaks to them like photography, specifically self-portraiture. Since 2020, Donnie has been recreating Renaissance-style paintings. They aim to bring history to modernity and myth to reality. 
Brandon Jerrod is a multidisciplinary artist and Hoodoo-rooted storyteller whose work moves between photography, sound, and ritual to honour spirit. Their practice blends ancestral technology, personal mythmaking, and community care to create spaces of remembrance, pleasure, and power. Brandon makes work that invites people to witness themselves more honestly and be witnessed with love. 
Em Inserra is a neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis. Her work is a way of exploring how memory, spirituality, and embodiment shape what it means to be alive. They’re drawn to the invisible threads between our inner worlds and the physical one that we all currently exist in. 
Charlotte Walsh is a multi-media artist from North London, using processes such as printmaking, collage and sculpture to create works exploring the themes of being a neurodiverse woman. 
Skye Di Maio is a visual artist from Glasgow. Their work mainly focuses on self-love and queer joy. They love to create what lots of us didn’t have growing up. 
Leah Byck was born in Manhattan, NY, grew up in Chappaqua, NY, and is currently a PhD Student at UNIBZ in Italy. Through a PhD program in experimental art, Leah will continue to incorporate drag, painting and music studies into their future visual artwork and push the boundaries of what visual art is, as well as what music is and how these mediums all intertwine. 
OSH Ponjee is a screenwriter, tailor, carpenter and drag king from the Netherlands, where it lives with its wife, husband and three kids. The translation of the poem was done by its wife, Camilla Maltas. 
Matihldeuh is a photographer who does everything from concerts and performances to experimental shoots and more. Through her work with colours, Matihldeuh seeks to project you into a dreamlike and colourful world, always through a committed lens, which is an integral part of her work. 
Frida Windelhed is a Swedish horror and smut writer, and an advocate for all things kinky, creepy, and queer. Her poetry depicts the dark, obsessive and often bitterly political side of queer lust and love. She is currently working on her third horror novel and performs erotic poetry at queer clubs and sex parties. IG: @fridawritesp_rn 
Cam Bordó is a Visual Artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work revolves around ambiguous bodies, the transmasculine experience, unconventional divinity found in everyday queerness, the artist’s role, and interpersonal bonds. 
Aleena Sharif was born in Pakistan and went to school at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She graduated with a BFA and a minor in Art History. After graduating, she has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, London, Italy, Pakistan, as well as many virtual galleries. She currently continues her practice between NY and Pakistan, where she holds open studies in the hope of creating a safe space for nude paintings to be shown. 
Hannah Wilder’s work examines abjection and intimacy on a personal and sociopolitical scale. Through an exploration of the abstract and grotesque relationships, they distort the binary. 
Elio Pfeifauf is an Austrian/Italian artist calling Hamburg their new home. Rarely alone, mostly collectively, Elio throws themselves into Performances, Installations, Stage Designs, and many more media to figure out how the world works. 
Tosin Jerugba is a Brazil-based Nigerian dyke refugee. She is an artist, writer and zine maker, who has given workshops on bibliodiversity and self-publishing worldwide. Her zines inhale African lived experiences and exhale a love for language, activism, and her exhaustion with the cis-tem. 
Joni Thomas is a poet and photographer living in Richmond, Virginia. Her work has been featured in Transfix magazine and often explores themes of transness, roots, and reclamation. Through both poetry and photography, she seeks to document the intersections of identity, memory, and place. 
Jo Birdsell is a queer, nonbinary artist and essayist from the American Midwest. Their work focuses on themes of queer and feminine liberation, life and sobriety in subculture, and rest and recovery in the face of trauma. You can find them online at jobirdsell.com or on Instagram @jo.birdsell. 
Roxanne Nic Mheanman is a writer based in Newcastle and Liverpool. Their writing explores their personal experiences, often focusing on lesbian love, desire, and relationships, as well as mental illness and how these two topics intersect. 
Coco Raven is a Copenhagen-based artist working with photography and graphics surrounding radical self-expression. 
Hana-Evelyn is a translesbian writer, artist and music producer based in Mumbai, weaving soundscapes and sentences that hum with texture, tension, and tenderness. Her work moves between poetry, prose, and beat. She believes in art as both survival and slow revolution. 
Oakie Darling is a non-binary Mixed Media artist from Glasgow, Scotland. With a focus on collage, Oakie translates their lived experience into chaotic yet controlled recycled and recontextualised pieces. Find them at @oakiedarling on Instagram. 
Kassandra Morgan is an author from a small town in Tennessee. She has been writing from a young age and recently picked up a quill once more to chase her dreams. You can find her on social media at TalesbyKassandra. 
Ella Chase is an amateur writer using creative non-fiction as an avenue for discussing the nonsensical world we have found ourselves in. As a queer person of colour, writing personal pieces rooted in lived experiences is a crucial way to understand the cracks in our society and communicate alternative possibilities of existence. Instagram: @ellalchase. 
Whatsername is a queer and mad poet writing on queer and mad-lib issues, romanticising nature and the city in equal parts, and forever courting the grotesque and the deviant. 
Specialising in mixed media and self-portrait-based collages, Elizabeth Corrall weaves worlds and narratives together to tell stories in her own words. 
Carissa Villalovos is a 2D artist in the final year of their BFA degree, interested in exploring ideas about sociopolitical issues, the delicate balance of ecosystems, and the use of imagination as political resistance. Their representational work often contains strange and symbolic imagery, while their abstract art focuses on the otherworldly beauty found in Earth’s biodiversity. 
Amanda Ryan’s interests lie in the ephemerality of news and information and the emotions it brings. ‘There’s a social amnesia afoot that I’m reacting to in my painting, and it’s acting as a reminder to climatic events that are being easily overlooked and conveniently forgotten.’ 
Kára currently curates a small artist space and anarchist mailorder called the Temple of Temperance. Among other things, she is a green and queer-feminist anarchist. 
swanson is a painter, clown, and butch, based out of Michigan. 
Millie Root is a multimedia artist born and based in Los Angeles. They work primarily in photo and performance, focusing on disability justice, alternative forms of healing, and stories told through the body. They enjoy cuddles with their foster dogs and eating ethically sourced dark chocolate. Follow their journey and arts @millie.r.photography. 
‘Yell at fascists – feed the homies – make rad art.’ @samdoart. 
Megan Smith is a graphic designer and seasoned multidisciplinary visual artist working mainly in the digital space. She is all about making eye-popping pieces that are rooted in the basics but break the rules whenever possible. Megan is a firm believer that art is for everyone, and as a member of the Talent Public Arts Committee, she uses her passion to advance arts participation and celebration in her community. 
J.D.NOVA is an emerging, self-taught queer writer of short stories, poetry and other word mixings with a seriously sexy, playful, cringey edge. Find more weird dream stuff @dreamsickbait. 
Lily-Grace Blossom is a queer ceramicist and a mud pie workshop facilitator. Her work explores the earth holistically and sensually, working in collaboration with it to delve into themes beyond the human; disrupting the status quo through abjection and celebrating the body as one with the earth. 
Callum Delahunty is an Irish visual artist and painter, who focuses on authentic queer experience, girlhood and sexuality. Inspired by the taboo and the unseen.