"Making / Titting about in drag costumes and props, often helps me clarify my thinking around grainy, uncomfortable, tangled ideas.
A "make first"* process often used by makers to very literally feel our way through an idea.

This fab image by
Sarah Li documents me using aquatic, scrotty boi, drag to think about the mythologising (and with that either denying or eulogising) of othernesses. to me this seems particularly insidious with disability- disabled people being the focus of “ inspiration porn” while simultaneously being disbelieved , ignored and denied our basic rights.

My personal experience is that this myth-ing/othering also applies to bi / pan sexualities, gender fluidity, and non-monogamy. These aspects of my life are often viewed by others as miraculously awe inspiring or utterly fabricated. When in fact, my experience of them is that they are part of the everyday fabric of my life- holding within them multitudes and very occasional extremes, but generally just pretty normal.

For a very funny and eloquent definition of inspiration porn, check out activist and comedian Stella Young (who coined the term) s tedtalk on the subject"

Lady Kitt, 2024

image description: colour photo, exterior . Kitt, a white shaven headed human with a flat silicone chest plate wears an open blue and purple shell suit jacket and matching merboi tail. they are standing up with a bright pink crutch on their right arm, in their left hand they hold a bright pink sheet of card with the following text written in scrappy purple handwriting “ still not a myth
still not a legend”

*phrase used by Craft Council to describe this approach.