Who are you/ what’s your project? I’m Tafkanik, the promoter and DJ behind HOMOSTASH. What’s your gender identity? Cis male. What’s your art? Making music. I don’t only DJ but also am a singer-songwriter. How does your queerness influence your art ( if it does)? Homostash is an event that is a celebration of queer …
Those few years ago Rife magazine invited me to go on screen and answer 9 questions on equality and change. Here’s the second part of this little series: 4. What does equality mean to you? Equality means respect. Equality is humanism, is consciousness. It’s the opposite of unquestioned repetition. What we’re used to is inequality, …
This is the last part of this little Q&A series on equality, gender and change that was conducted for Watershed. Enjoy 🙂 7. In the last 100 years we have achieved? In the last 100 years we have achieved a lot. On a political level very much has been done towards equality, I’d almost say …
a few years back I was invited to take part in the creation of a short film that was recorded and distributed for International women’s day ( Yes I was read as a woman.. but well… it’s for the political outcome is it, so I said yes). I was asked 9 questions, and their answers …
It’s peculiar, how one can feel so connected to pieces of metal, how one can assign emotions and moods and a character to something that before it was assembled was only scrap. My bike has gone. It’s something I’ve been told most Londoners go through in their lifetime… some even more than once and yes …
And another week of social distancing/ lockdown measures. Another week in which the sun is out and one’s on the phone for hours or on the computer trying to reach out to friends. It’s up and down really, up and down… at the moment I’m personally on an up again and I feel fairly but …
Who are you/ what’s your project? Riposte is “a quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism”, created by queer artists and ravers as an alternative to the mainstream art world they didn’t fit in. The name represent that: it’s a Riposte, an answer to what we dislike, trying to create a space where we …
In Episode 2 of the Jender podcast I speak about queer gender and masculinity with friend and fellow Radical Faerie Ravi. He is also the creator of all drawings for the recipes mentioned on the podcast, check out his work. We speak about how he’s not that bothered about people calling Gender a “social construct”, …
Who are you/ what’s your project? Kim Cosmik Music producer / Dj and visual artwork. What’s your gender identity? Bi but mostly Gay now married. What’s your art? Mainly electronic music but also dabble with many genres. How does your queerness influence your art ( if it does)? Not so much my queerness but being …
” It’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy that we get to live only one life”, I read in that book one day and it feels very true to me. I hated being alive. I’ve wished I wasn’t and when I was four, it seems, I asked my mum if …
