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t'ART blog is a new online space for essays, articles, short stories and more. If you'd like to submit your work for consideration please send it to tartpress.submissions@gmail.com along with a short bio.
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An evening with Bold Mellon’s showcase - OFF THE GROUND
Bold Mellon Collective's showcase of experimental queer performance is a splendid array of queer talent and creative risk taking. OFF THE...
Lucie Arnoux
Mar 182 min read
An Interview with Bint Mbareh: On multidirectional sound, Palestine & screaming
I first saw Bint Mbareh performing at Unsound 2024, singing a series of Palestinian rain chants to a crowded auditorium on a drizzly...
Harith Badwan
Feb 2411 min read
An Interview with Julian Konuk: On trans temporality, stitching film & queering the archive
We interviewed transdisciplinary artist and filmmaker Julian Konuk.
Finn / Amelia Brown
Feb 55 min read
London Fetish Film Festival: A Review
The London Fetish Film Festival returned this December for its fifth year and a weekend of documentaries, art films and more. We were...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Jan 23 min read
An Interview with The London Fetish Film Festival
The London Fetish Film Festival brings together film, art and discussion across a December weekend (14th-15th) all dedicated to fetish....
Finn / Amelia Brown
Dec 5, 20244 min read
GIVE OR TAKE
In the Society room at The Stanley Arts Centre, Dear Annie whistles into a mic. They press buttons and birds chirp, wings flutter in take...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Nov 29, 20242 min read
River Lines by Sophy Drouin
Your palm is the second to love me, first to touch. In the hallway of a Venezuelan hospital, my mom is deep under blankets, shaking,...
Sophy Drouin
Nov 16, 20244 min read
Meet the t'ARTists
We spoke to a selection of the artists - multidisciplinary artist Amy Rose-Edlyn, ceramicist Gessica Carbone, fine artist Orlando...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Nov 8, 20247 min read
An Interview with Janis Butler Holm: on inside stimuli, light and creating from isolation
Artist, writer and performer Janis Butler Holm was forced inside by the Covid pandemic. We spoke to her about the impact of lockdown on...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Oct 29, 20242 min read
Trans(formation) or: Orlando in the Age of Social Media
TW: Transphobia Imagine you wake up one day. Your gender is the opposite. (If you define gender by genitalia, congratulations! You are...
Audrey T. Carroll
Oct 29, 20244 min read
Calendar of Hurt by Tobi Alfier
She’s not a woman who changes men or friendships the way some women flap sheets straight before hanging them on the line, sunlight...
Tobi Alfier
Oct 17, 20242 min read
In Line by Natalia Pikna
She was standing in line at the grocery store. It was one of those slow days, a Thursday to make it worse. She had rushed from work in...
Natalia Pikna
Oct 17, 20248 min read
Wrong Place, Wrong Size by Ann McCann
Back in 2022 a woman named Kayla Ancrum posted a now-viral short line of a poem on Tiktok. She said, “I had a dream that I was...
Ann McCann
Oct 17, 20243 min read
Back at It by Judith Shapiro
I was the hard-ass New Yorker. A slap on the back, and a jovial Fuck you . Translation: You pissed me off, but we’re okay now, right? She...
Judith Shapiro
Oct 17, 20242 min read
IS IT OKAY? with Bold Mellon
At Croydon’s Stanley Arts Centre, queers gathered to spend three days moving and making, being paid for their time without the pressure...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Oct 13, 202410 min read
A trans person slowly forgets their past
I had a dream that I don't quite remember: What happened to my parents fish tank when they moved, I can’t quite remember and I’m scared...
Julian Konuk
Jul 16, 20243 min read
The Summit
There’s this thing they would repeat all the time at the camp, about freezing the evil out of us. The self-righteous and apologetically...
Brandon Mead
Jul 6, 20244 min read
Hay Festival: queer places, writing as flying & monstrous plants
Just outside of the world’s first ‘book town’ Hay-on-Wye, the Hay Festival takes place each year. The green landscape is broken up by...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Jun 12, 20247 min read
Nectarine
Soft bodies lay stretched out on sun warmed rocks, surrounded by turquoise water. Waves came in, gentle. Water kissed the edge of rugged...
Jess Moher
Jun 12, 20243 min read
Purple Kisses
The tent is a body bag. I zip it up and walk away from the remains of my life. As the park gate clangs shut, pushed by December’s icy...
Rebecca Miles
Jun 12, 20243 min read
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