December 17, 2023
Queer Astrological Forecast Part Two
Stock up on your positive affirmations to slay your way to 2024
Following on from last weeks queer astrological forecast by our friends at Crystal Vision, here’s part two, some useful affirmations […] Read MoreDecember 16, 2023
Queer Puppetry Making Cardboard Cool
Carlisle Artist Aidan Dawson shares queer experience through photomontage
Aidan Dawson is working on a film project that talks of queer experience through the art of puppetry. Inspired by […] Read MoreDecember 13, 2023
Queer Support of Palestine – Afeef Nessouli
We speak to journalist Afeef Nessouli about the current conflict and why he is urging people to see past mainstream queer-washing
In the midst of renewed turmoil in Palestine, where the spectre of hellfire once again casts its shadow over children […] Read MoreDecember 11, 2023
QUEER ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST
Crystal Vision Apothecary brings us their cosmic offering for December and into 2024! Part 1!
‘Happy December, Angels!This month blesses us with our final, beautiful and introspective full moon of the year, and it’s set […] Read MoreDecember 10, 2023
ART/FASHION ANARCHIST NOKI SHOT BY TIM WALKER
Reinventing the rejected. We caught up with the radical queer misfit on their recent trip to Carlisle.
Hi Noki! Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m from Aberdeen, Scotland, moving at 11 to a small […] Read MoreNovember 27, 2023
The Boy Melancholy
The Barrow Artist using art to open a dialogue about mental health
Inks, watercolour and marker pens are used as tools of expression by Johnny Kavanagh aka The Boy Melancholy. He takes […] Read MoreNovember 18, 2023
I can handle another 949 days of this school, I think
Ten Year Old Creative Writer Overcomes the Lipbalm Mob!
When we received a reader story by 10 year old Delilah we were so taken by their humour and imagination […] Read MoreNovember 17, 2023
Queer Punk duo bringing Joyous Rage to The Brickyard
We catch up with Glasgow duo 'Comfort' before their Carlisle gig
As a little ice-breaker before their much anticipated visit to Carlisle, we wanted to get to know siblings Sean and […] Read MoreNovember 12, 2023
Saturday Town shows us the future is bright, wild and queer.
Casey Orr is the photographer capturing our creative, radical and brave youth movement in its technicolor beauty
The radical self expression of youth is being captured via pop-up technicolour studios across northern England, thanks to Casey Orr […] Read MoreNovember 09, 2023
The Anarchist Potter Celebrating Imperfection
Luke Morgan creates non-conformist pots that celebrate the beauty of our broken parts
If Kurt Cobain was a plate, he would have been turned, glazed, fired…and smashed, by Luke Morgan. Queer Cumbria are […] Read MoreNovember 07, 2023
Why the king’s speech stinks
Art Spells Out UK Corruption
Some artists, when faced with the stark white walls of a gallery space, would be forgiven for taking a nervous […] Read MoreNovember 06, 2023