Rainbow Bois and Magical Gurls

Kieran Butler (b. 1992, Nowra, NSW, Australia) is an emerging photographic artist of Mauritian Decent. They work across moving and still image, object, and installation. Currently their research looks at applying transgender studies as a methodology for examining non-binary models of contemporary photographic practice, gender identity, and where these two histories might speak to one another. Kieran currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia.

Emma Size is many things, but a writer of one-line bios isn’t one of them.

Samuel Beatty is a printmaker and illustrator based in based in Sydney, Australia. His practice uses self-portraiture, storytelling and metaphors of outer space to explore themes of gender identity and discovering the authentic self. Samuel creates graphic narratives in to form of screen prints, etchings, zines and artist books that address his personal experiences of being transgender. His stories provide alternate forms of queer and transgender representation, as an educational tool, support resource, and to provide positive affirmations and validation to other gender questioning individuals on similar journeys.

Sabella D'Souza (b. 1995, Wellington, New Zealand) is a performance based artist whose work interweaves notions of cultural hybridity, virtual identity, along with the transnationality of cyberspace. Their current work queers the use of mainstream social networking websites through performance. Whilst their research currently examines how these spaces are used in identity construction with reference to their own diasporic Indian/Australian/New Zealand and queer identity. They currently are completing a combined degree of Arts and Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales.

Dileepa Dyananda "The mystical third, the brown, femme, the constricted and the repressed. That third’s body who exists by the first and second bodies but outside of the both. Such practice which looks to performativity within the folds of race, diaspora, dysphoria, gender, sexuality-and-pornography. The body in heels that falls down the stairs on platform four and bruises its leg. Runs away shame-faced at this spontaneous manifestation of the failed femme. The body draped in cloth and clay, the prometheic exoskeleton, the caricature which possesses the muscles that run through the face and silence the eyes and lips and teeth. The silent actor-ess and the father-mother who suckles. The son-child who takes in the voice of amma and aachchi and hangs limp from their grandmother’s pearls. The performing child, the ceramic child, the inebriate child, the tired and broken child. The age’d child’n who sexes, that is sex, to be fucked or to fuck. Halt here for the Indulgences of the skin" - PONNAYA DEVI.

Matthew Varnay: So this one time I was dancing at 77 and this guy asked for some water (coz I was holding my water-bottle) and I was like 'sure, its my job as an aquarius to give ppl water' and he's like 'cool' and I'm like 'what are u' and he's like 'I work in IT'