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Robin Skyer
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PhD Candidate, University of Southampton. Political sociologist researching queer lives, care, mutual aid, young people.

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Yesterday was wonderful: the UoS PGR LGBTQIA+ network spent a morning making mini-zines with @megenjm.bsky.social, amidst Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship at the Winchester Gallery (created and curated by the excellent @lizziereed.bsky.social and @miloustella.bsky.social).
A tabletop covered in a selection of mini-zines and materials used to make them such as pens, scissors, felt, ribbons, paper, and a deck of tarot cards entitled Big Gay Tarot Deck. One of the mini-zines has the outline of a head and where a face would be, there is text that says Your Face Here. Another mini-zine uses a keffiyeh pattern as its background and has text that reads: what to do if you want to help Palestine but don't know where to start. There is also a mini-zine about radical queer demo chants. A section of the gallery with fluffy white carpet and pillows. There is a projection on the back wall showing a microscopic image of a cell. Below the projected image, on the floor, is an object that looks like a huge syringe made of soft textiles. The word trigger is embroidered onto the side of the object. There is a long pink piece of material that protrudes from the end like a tongue. A wall of the gallery painted to look like a fridge door. Magnets with a different words on them have been assembled to make sentences. Me heal body. Kindle your mad soil. Let him amuse our complex life. Communicate joke until delicate copy kinship.
February 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Reclaim Croydon and AWS, part of Autonomous Shelter Network, run mutual aid projects throughout winter in London. Housing, food, warmth, books, coffee, community: all available. Donations also welcome, visit their Instagram page for further details.
A black and white photograph of a street in Croydon. Text says: Autonomous Winter Shelter Croydon. In need of emergency housing? Call 07708524657. reclaimcroydon@proton.me. Instagram handles: @reclaimcroydon @autonomouswintershelter.
December 5, 2023 at 12:25 PM
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The queer prism flag, designed by Lebanese-American artist Hamed Sinno (2023).

"it means we don’t feel represented by a flag that excludes our struggles’ inter connectedness with decolonial practice, anti-racist practice, feminism, disability justice, or class struggle."
Image of a rectangular flag, reading from right to left: a red isosceles triangle pointing to the left, next to a chevron which split into two sections. The top half is deep purple and the bottom half is hot pink. These shapes overlie a black background, which fills the far left of the rectangle.
November 17, 2023 at 10:30 AM