By JJ Loveday – Art is how we connect. Art is how we resist. Art is how we turn shit into fertiliser and bloom anyway...

By JJ Loveday – The most important thing is that I'm standing in my truth. I think it's up to each of us to share who we are when we find out who that is...

By Justin Abit – I learned there was more to explore when it came to gender and how we are expected to present ourselves...

By Piper and JJ Loveday – To learn that I've been abused was a process. To even speak up about it felt like I was disrespecting my mother. It’s the rule of ‘what happens in this house, stays in this house’...

By Peachy Vendetta – I am not cool. My body doesn't cooperate, and my presence feels like an accident sometimes. So, I become Peachy to walk onstage and let discomfort be the point...

By Piper and JJ Loveday – Gabriella Labucci once stood in a ball gown, spread condiments on a sandwich to Vivaldi’s ‘Spring’, and screamed at it. That should tell you everything you need to know...

By Adrian Kaleb Quijano – I don’t want a medal for trying to live my life, even though those in power are trying to legislate me out of existence. Trans people deserve to get their flowers now while they’re alive...

By Kat Joplin – I try to celebrate all kinds of femininity. I don’t tuck too much, I don’t need to proportionalize. It’s okay to be flat, to have no ass, no hips, to be a little masc! I want to show diversity...

By Dirk Doesart – I want to transform drag performers into these deities, symbols, divinities...

By Rangda – She is for anyone, everyone who unapologetically lives their truth. She is the fight against repression and oppression of the patriarchy. Rangda is a primal scream echoing through time...

By Jaxx Davis – I sometimes wish that I had breast cancer. It's a shocking and bold way to open this, but I do and it’s terrifying to feel this way...

By Safia Albaiti – they said parental rights / paid big money for that / ban the libraries burn the books...

By Chella Bella – With a sword as her symbol, the subject straddles softness and strength...

By Erika MacNeil – He still feels over-protective of his no-need-for-protection step-son-turned-daughter...

By Holli Hemlock – There is a deeply liberating power in letting go of the categories, forms, and stories about our body and others’ that do not serve...

By Marco Mozzarelli – Every time I am topless on stage, it gives me the most gender euphoria...

By Sandie Roberts – Eaten alive by the rage that tore at my insides, because I didn’t have the words to describe the hell I was feeling inside...

By Archer Merry – I see so much of myself in Nick Nelson – he’s truly become my comfort character...