Image Description: colour photograph of the torso and head of a middle aged woman laying on the ground, her face in three quarter profile, chin resting on her heel of her hand, fingers curled in. Katharine is white with short cropped, light coloured hair, an angular face, & sunglasses. She is wearing a black t-shirt with white text across the chest that is obscured. The raised arm is covered in botanical tattoos. The background shows a park with trees and a blue sky.

Reluctantly Corporeal

reader • writer • poet • mother • tired • hungry • scared [reversed]

Image Description: colour photograph. the subject smiles at the camera. Cora is white with bangs and curly black-brown hair tied back. Their eyes are brown-black. Their facial hair is sparse and cut close and they wear a gold lip ring in the centre of their lower lip. They are wearing a dark red sweatshirt.

Deliberately Corporeal

Cora is some stardust currently masquerading as a queer, disabled writer near madison, wisconsin. they spend most of their time being a menace to their favourite person by sending poems and songs to make her blush in public, but occasionally take a break to write, edit, and play with the dogs.

Image Description: A sketchy black ink and crayon drawing of purple flowers and green leaves on white is sliced horizontally through the center to frame the word 'en*gendered' in a very very dark green. The entire image is bordered in sage green.

Our sibling publication en*gendered aims to gather experiences of gender and embodiment and the intersection of both.

Image Description: A circular photograph of Ocean Mateus facing the camera, chin resting on the curled fist of his left hand. He is a white man in his late twenties with short cropped brown hair and near circular wire rimmed glasses. Ocean is wearing a white t-shirt and appears to be posed in front of light coloured wooden shelving that has been blurred. Ocean's rounded face wears a mustache and beard, scruffy cheeks, and a small smile.

The Man Behind the Bodies

Using a combination of traditional cross hatching, and modern digital art, I try to create pieces that create a sense of empowerment in the viewer.

Often, realistic life art is centred around white, non-disabled, cisgender bodies which can leave entire demographics feeling erased from history. I want to create art that reflects and celebrates all types of bodies, with a focus on transgender and queer identities.

Professional, Social, and Commercial links HERE

Image Description: A circular crop of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies logo which consists of the words in their name stacked atop each other in a bold serif font in black followed by three dots in pink, purple, and blue.

Our Mission

We are an independent nonprofit research organization run by transgender people for transgender people. We believe that dedication to public service and commitment to justice should be at the heart of academic inquiry. We also believe that education should not only occur in classrooms. Guided by those beliefs, we facilitate and promote the empirical study of transgender issues with the ultimate aim of informing policy-making and public discourse in ways that improve quality of life for the transgender community.

Click HERE for more info about CATS

Image Description: A circular crop of the logo of the Invisible Disability Project which consists of the three words in their name stacked atop each other in a bold all caps sans serif font in white on a black background. The letters VISI in Invisible and the BILITY in Disability are rendered in orange.

Invisible Disability Project (IDP) is a social/cultural movement and an educational media project that consciously disrupts “invisibility” imposed upon unseen disabilities at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. We are devoted to building human connections and self-advocacy by dismantling shame and stigma. IDP effects change through public conversations and interactive online content with the goal of creating an informed, mutually supportive community.

More information about IDP projects and campaigns can be found HERE