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(she/her) Growing up as a Black disabled female, music has always played a crucial role in shaping my identity and experiences. It provided me with comfort and empowerment through lyrics and rhythms that spoke to my struggles and triumphs. This deep connection to music has inspired me to use my lived experience and my passion […]
Rebecca Buckley

(she/her) Rebecca Buckley is a neurodivergent, d/deaf anti-disciplinary creative researcher, writer, visual artist, creative facilitator and accessibility activist. In her creative practice Rebecca works across multiple disciplines, spanning sculpture, painting, print-making, soundscapes, film, metalwork, creative walking and writing – including poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and screenwriting. Rebecca is developing a project responding to accessibility challenges […]
Nix Nugent

(she/they/her/them) Nix Nugent is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans music, activism, and writing. Their album Retrograde, produced with Gareth Thomas, blends genres like drum and bass, folk, and parody, showcasing their diverse sound. Their song “Lockdown” supports NHS staff, with proceeds donated to a Nurses’ Charity. Nix also composes for projects such as Boudica […]
Janah Smith

(she/her) I am a 21 year old BA Global Creative Industries student with a passion for community arts. I am a creative at heart and love all kinds of artistic expression, with my main practice being creative writing. You will often find me out in nature with a journal, guitar, and a bag full of […]
Emily Georghiou

(she/her) Emily is a lifelong advocate for disability rights, equity, rights, social justice and inclusion. Drawing on her own lived experience – inner city Bristol upbringing, daughter of a refugee, a woman with hidden disabilities and young children – Emily brings a passion for change to her professional life. Educated at Ruskin College (Oxford), Hull […]
Cass Love

(they/them) I am a multidisciplinary artist and writer working across live performance, literature and film. My work explores themes of mental health, sexual politics and sex work from a queer, neurodivergent perspective.I co-devised and performed in the critically-acclaimed Sex Worker’s Opera during UK and international tours over a ten year period, and my solo theatre […]
Be Zilberman

(they/them) I’m a non-binary autistic filmmaker from Brazil, doing my Masters in Documentary Filmmaking. I’m also a drag queen and a circus artist. I’m currently doing a short film about queer neurodivergent experiences. Drag Scene With captions Audio description Be sits cross legged, they have short curly hair that is pinned away from their face. […]
Arti Dillon

Arti reacts & responds to themes in, & around, her life that are often hidden. Both playful & confrontational, she makes work with various mediums, from the found, leftover & the economical, often with engagement elements. An Activist or Artist? Or Neurospicy cultural elephant, stomping & scurrying between words & worlds. Arti acknowledges ‘the personal […]
Anna Landre

(she/her) Anna Landre is a wheelchair-using activist & researcher whose work spans the areas of disability studies, disability culture, humanitarianism, emergency response, community-building, and social care policy. Within these, she focuses on what she calls the disability law “implementation gap”, which is when good laws on paper fail to translate into better outcomes for disabled […]