Photo: Kaiya Waerea.
Photo: Erin Holly
Photo: Erin Holly
Photo: Kaiya Waerea.
Photo: Kaiya Waerea.
TISSUE
TISSUE is a trans publishing and events initiative based in London. Arising from a hostile political landscape for trans* people in 2022, TISSUE is a trans* literary initiative, which curates reading events and publishes anthologies with an emphasis on fostering communal spaces that develop trans thinking and writing. Their events offer a social nexus for the community to meet, showcase and exchange ideas, and their publishing archives these conversations and work in print. Their first anthology, MAKING, was launched at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2023, while the second, CRINGING, will be published later this year. Their pamphlet series The London Review of Trannies, produces community-led criticism of contemporary trans exhibitions in London.
TISSUE is co-curated by Donna Marcus Duke and Sam Moore. Donna Marcus Duke is a writer, performer, and organiser. They write for the likes of Frieze, I-D, Numero, Vogue Italia, AnOther, Dazed, and 3AM; their essays and poetry have been published by Sticky Fingers, Pilot Press, Worms, and UCL Press. They are currently a Visiting Scholar in Life Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford. Sam Moore is a writer, artist, and editor. They are the author of All my teachers died of AIDS (Pilot Press, 2020); Long live the new flesh (Polari Press, 2022); and Search history (Queer Street Press, 2023).
During their first residency year at Goldsmiths CCA, TISSUE have run a series of reading events fundraising for trans healthcare. In developing our practice, they’ve considered how reading events can materially, socially and culturally benefit a community, and how this can be done practically by working through the infrastructures offered by an institution. They’ll continue their regular reading event series whilst working on a publication that describes the thought behind their process whilst archiving all aspects of the events, including texts read, photographs, bake sale recipes, posters and annotated t-shirt designs.
Instagram: @ti55ue
TISSUE is a trans publishing and events initiative based in London. Arising from a hostile political landscape for trans* people in 2022, TISSUE is a trans* literary initiative, which curates reading events and publishes anthologies with an emphasis on fostering communal spaces that develop trans thinking and writing. Their events offer a social nexus for the community to meet, showcase and exchange ideas, and their publishing archives these conversations and work in print. Their first anthology, MAKING, was launched at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2023, while the second, CRINGING, will be published later this year. Their pamphlet series The London Review of Trannies, produces community-led criticism of contemporary trans exhibitions in London.
TISSUE is co-curated by Donna Marcus Duke and Sam Moore. Donna Marcus Duke is a writer, performer, and organiser. They write for the likes of Frieze, I-D, Numero, Vogue Italia, AnOther, Dazed, and 3AM; their essays and poetry have been published by Sticky Fingers, Pilot Press, Worms, and UCL Press. They are currently a Visiting Scholar in Life Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford. Sam Moore is a writer, artist, and editor. They are the author of All my teachers died of AIDS (Pilot Press, 2020); Long live the new flesh (Polari Press, 2022); and Search history (Queer Street Press, 2023).
During their first residency year at Goldsmiths CCA, TISSUE have run a series of reading events fundraising for trans healthcare. In developing our practice, they’ve considered how reading events can materially, socially and culturally benefit a community, and how this can be done practically by working through the infrastructures offered by an institution. They’ll continue their regular reading event series whilst working on a publication that describes the thought behind their process whilst archiving all aspects of the events, including texts read, photographs, bake sale recipes, posters and annotated t-shirt designs.
Instagram: @ti55ue
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