Sarah-Joy Ford is an Artist; Post Graduate Researcher and Associate Lecturer at Manchester School of Art. Exhibitions include Banner Culture, British Textile Biennale (Blackburn), Queen, COLLAR (Manchester) and Weaving Europe: The World as Mediation, Shelly Residence (Paphos). Curatorial projects include: The Guild: Contemporary Textiles, Templeworks (Leeds), Cut Cloth: Contemporary Textiles and Feminism, The Portico Library (Manchester) and Hard Craft, Vane Gallery (Newcastle). Public commissions include projects for Processions: a hundred years of suffrage, Beyond the Binary at The Pitt Rivers Museum and Manchester Pride. She is the recipient of an NWDTCP award for her PhD research examining quilting as a methodology for re-visioning British lesbian archive.
James Lawrence Slattery (they/them): PhD candidate in the School of Arts, Language and Cultures at the University of Manchester. Research title: Taking Back Desire: Visions and Queerness and Capitalism in Time. ‘My work argues that queerness can be understood as a tool of anti-capitalist resistance, looks at how LGBTQAI+ identity politics have been assimilated into neoliberalism, and asks how temporality functions in the production of subjectivity. I explore and unpack these ideas using Lacanian psychanalysis and film studies.’ https://oxford.academia.edu/JamesLawrenceSlattery
Dr Lois Stone recently completed their PhD at the University of Manchester. Their thesis is titled “There was nothing, and now we have something”: Representations of Trans Narratives in British Museums, 2015-2018, and examines trans representations in museums in the UK and how those representations are impacted by popular culture. Their research interests include trans history, expanding museum inclusivity, and trans representation in cinema. Lois can be reached at stoneloise@gmail.com or more informally at https://twitter.com/supitslois https://manchester.academia.edu/LStone
Jack Warren is a postgraduate researcher and research assistant at MMU, researching queer theory, new materialisms, and media studies. His research works to playfully connect digital media, queerness, art, ecology,performance, literature, board games, and theory. Jack can be reached at jack.warren94@gmail.com or on https://twitter.com/thepigeonqween
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