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Bryony has fifteen years of experience as a gendered violence prevention educator, designing and delivering training interventions for organisations and communities and training facilitators across many industries. She leads on policy and strategy and is based in Berlin where she makes radio, writes, and performs. She is passionate about justice and spirals.

Estella is a performing musician and multi-instrumentalist. She plays bass in the Black feminist punk band Big Joanie. She has volunteered with Girls Rock London, an organisation that seeks to empower women, trans* and gender non-conforming folks to play instruments and enter the music industry, since 2017 as a band coach, instrument tutor, and year-round organiser.

Golchehr likes to think of herself as a community care-worker. She delivers trauma-informed, gender sensitive, youth focused, queer-aware, postcolonial community education, with an academic background in Gender studies and Queer Theory.

Patrick has been combining a self-deprecating love of spreadsheets and an aesthetic zeal within homegrown organisations for some time now. He is also a web and book designer, bandmate and has an excessive DVD collection.

Rhianydd has been active in the reproductive justice movement for the past decade in the USA, UK and EU.  She has a big place in her heart for community music, karaoke and 2000’s pop, and is also the rhythm guitar section for DIY sensation Charmpit.

Yves has a background in grassroots community organising and advocacy. They have also worked on archival and artistic projects that uplift the stories and voices of sex workers, and queer and trans people. Yves is also an artist and performs in an experimental electronic project.

Āliyah aka THEMPRESS is a DJ, performer, producer, and educator. With a far-reaching and highly eclectic taste, you can find them switching it up from house and funk sunshine vibes to late night bass and techno raves. They produce and present radio with residencies at Voices Radio and Netil Radio and are a regular on London’s club and rave scene, bringing boundless energy everywhere they facilitate, play and perform.

Giulia has a master’s degree in Human Rights, Culture and Social Justice. They moved to London from Italy to pursue their passion for the rights of LGBTQ+, women and people of colour. They hope to have a future in NGOs and be able to buy as many books as humanly possible.

June is a community organiser, event producer and writer. Their interest and work lays in trans liberation, the intersection of queerness and grief and amplifying voices on the margins. They have worked as a facilitator with The New Normal, Spectra, Remember and Resist, Decolonising Economics and written for gal-dem, i-D, Vice and daikon* zine. When not working, they can be found dancing and serving looks in grotty basements and night clubs until the early hours of the morning all around London.

Rhianna is an activist-facilitator, playwright and game-maker. She designs interactive experiences, theatre and games for Coney, and is a changemaker at The Advocacy Academy in South London. She previously worked as an event curator at be’kech, a grassroots space in Berlin. She is an events nerd (if that’s a thing?) and loves to talk about books.

Activist, Facilitator, Trainer, Journalist, Filmmaker, Yoga Teacher and ABSOLUTELY SHAMELESS East 17 fanboy. It’s called the ‘Rise Of The Generalist’, apparently. Richie—who hasn’t seen his chin since 2014—exists in a world which explores constructed gender hierarchies, contemporary masculinity and sex-positivity. His focus is on challenging men to play a more active role in the fight against GBV and VAWG.

Trainee Psychotherapist, Sexual Violence Trainer and Facilitator, Mother, Wife, Crossfitter and Seeker of Intrigue.

Tove is based in Calderdale and currently works as a counsellor, facilitator and trainer. They’re nerdy about the connections between our inner world and the world around us, and the possibility of structural and individual change that working with this brings. They spent their time in grassroots and community organising, activism, health work, DIY and music in various shapes and forms over the years.

Alice has worked in the night-time industries for over 20 years. She is a women’s support worker and advocate with strong beliefs about society’s injustices and a huge desire to make the world a better place, as well as a musician, artist, allotment gardener and mother of two.

Anjali is a cultural producer, yoga teacher & DJ. Her work focusses on alternative models for creative labour and challenging inequalities in the cultural sector. As a club programmer, festival producer and resident DJ with SISU, Anjali has also published writing and lectured on labour conditions in queer nightlife, community organising, and the night time economy.

Fran has a background in digital communications and campaigns at non profit organisations, working on human rights and the environment. She is also a dedicated activist and has been involved in grassroots intersectional feminist movements as well as groups fighting climate change.

Imogen is an artist and activist within the music industry. Having been on the board of The Ivors Academy, co-chair of their Youth Council, and as a voice of Keychange 22, Imogen is devoted to championing best practice, access, education and equality across all aspects of the industry.

Libby has worked in Sexual & Reproductive health for the last five years. She currently manages a Sexual Violence Education & Training Programme for educational settings and community groups in London. She is passionate about menstrual equity and an advocate for healthy relationships education for young people and adults.

Maya is an associate director at Diversity and Ability, a social enterprise that champions disability inclusion.  She is deeply committed to making the world more inclusive, especially for disabled and neurodiverse people, and is passionate about intersectional feminism. Maya is partial to a party in a field or forest, the louder the better.

Reuben is an Exhibition Researcher and community organiser, working on issues of abolition. They are passionate about how visual culture can be used for political education, agitation, and organisation.

Soykan is a lawyer and also DJs for his friends. He handles pro-bono cases for disadvantaged minorities. He has been in the nightlife scene for more than 15 years and aims to participate in making the nightlife experiences safer and better for everyone.

Tamara-Jade is a trainer, facilitator and illustrator whose work centres social action. She has a background working in gendered violence prevention from a Black Feminist perspective. She is passionate about facilitating conversations that reflect on group culture.