PEOPLE LIKE US - A LIVING ARCHIVE - PAGE UNDER RE-CONSTRUCTION 1/24
People Like Us is a collaborative photography, text and audio project, exploring trans, non-binary and GNC (gender non-conforming) identities and experience from AFAB (assigned female at birth) perspectives. Click here to read a full statement about the project.
In development since 2017, the project embraces 58 people from a rich variety of backgrounds and gender diversity. Layered with individual and collective experience, it indulges in positive and joyful representation of these personalities.
It’s a photo-book - self published 12/2024
It’s a night of Revellry!
It’s Gay Shame! Live performance photo-shoots at Duckie’s annual antidote to London Pride - 2021 and 2022 - Click here for more.
It’s a zine - commissioned by Shout Queer Arts Festival and self-published in 2020.
It’s a community.
It’s a collection of stories.
“I still think about my body hair. When I was invited into this photography project, one of the ideas was to play with the dark coarse body hair that covers me. Instead, I brought my dainty gold trimming scissors, sharing the practices that come with a body like mine, exposing the assumptions of a body like mine. I don’t like my hair. I tolerate it and the methods I use to reduce, remove and maintain it. Especially the hair that sits on my upper lip and between my brows I have tolerated (read: tortured) since girlhood. But there’s something about how I can focus on each individual black hair, and the attention to detail I give now that I can look at my body this closely, that does make it feel okay. It turns it into a ritual that’s mine.” Sabah 2019
“I only started using the term non-binary a few years ago, after top surgery. Kate Bornstein calls gender a playground. I love this. Now my body balances. Like a see-saw. I think these terms - masculine / feminine - are up for grabs. I feel more playful defining as non-binary. Feels calming. Clear. Hopeful even. I wish this term had been available when I was growing up. It would have saved me a lot of pain and misunderstanding. Now, I can step into it. Play a little. Thanks to all the trans & NB people that helped me on this path in, and, around surgery”. Libro 2020
“If I could define my gender with one word, it would simply be Badass.” Don One
“Boys Bleed. Period.” Chiyo
“I wanted to revel in the joy of self expression, as I finally got to wear clothes I loved and have them fit in the way I felt they should.” Aster
“Body Admin.” Jen