I’ve been exploring the way social media can be used by queer digital storytellers as a form of self representation and as a radical archiving practice.

By documenting their everyday experiences and creating their own narratives, people with marginalised identities can have greater agency over the way they they see themselves portrayed.

By their continued presence and leaving proof of their existence on digital platforms, they are able to form and explore communities online they might not have access to in their physical lives.

It's important to acknowledge that who gets included in archival history is subjective.

And that the continued absence or marginalisation of a social group throughout history is a decision that has been made by those who have preserved it.

The art and media we consume can deeply impact the way we feel about ourselves, growing up I didn't see (and don't often see) my experience of the world represented. The importance of Queer representation cannot be understated for the impact it can have on young queer people's mental health,

I've been working with my ADHD as a structure for creating, by making GIFs as a way of challenging the preconceived idea that by me progressing in my making it will mean my videos will get longer.

Through experimental, intuitive methodology and divining through living, I've been using colours, textures, found, materials and my capacity for delight to inform my investigation into how subjectivity influences our perspective.