Mary Beth Graham
Mary Beth Graham’s background, through education and activism, is in human rights within global supply chains. Her previous research looked specifically at fast fashion manufacturing and its varied damaging impacts on People of the Global Majority, their communities and their environment. Mary Beth is in the final year of her PhD at the University of […]
Tobe Ellen
Tobe Ellen is a writer and mental health advocate. He is the host of The Barrow Podcast, a show featuring conversations with his mum about divorce, dysfunctional families & mental illness while they attempt to repair their relationship and write a memoir together. In 2026, The Barrow will be developed into a series of live, […]
Tanya Cheadle
Tanya Cheadle is a gender historian based at the University of Glasgow, who specializes in the history of sexually radical and occult subcultures in fin de siecle Scotland. Her current research focuses on masculinity in the Scottish occult revival, and examines the beliefs and practices of male occultists in organizations including the Hermetic Order of […]
Danielle Chavrimootoo
Danielle Chavrimootoo is Director of Dorcas Inclusive Education Consultancy supporting organisations in advancing equality, diversity and inclusion. With over twenty years’ experience in a variety of roles both academic and professional services in Further and Higher Education. Danielle’s background is teaching Health and Social Care in Further Education. Danielle moved into higher education and taught […]
Gillian Shirreffs
Gillian Shirreffs has been writing about illness for nearly two decades. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2007, she began writing while on bedrest. What began as a coping mechanism grew into something more—an urgent, unsentimental collection of work about what it means to live in a body that won’t behave. Gillian’s debut novel, Brodie, was […]
Jo Clements
Jo Clements is a researcher and writer based near Dingwall. They are interested in all the wonderous ways that people use the past to shape their present, metaphors and cancer, and dandelions. Jo is currently working on a non-fiction, book-length writing project tentatively titled ‘Dandelion’ that intertwines exploration of historical metaphorical and other uses of […]
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Kenny Farquharson
Kenny Farquharson is a Scottish journalist and photographer. He has been a columnist for The Times since 2015, based in Edinburgh and writing about Scottish politics. Career highs include being embedded with Scottish troops in Afghanistan and reporting on Barack Obama’s presidential election campaign. A veteran of the politics of devolution, he was the first […]
Roxani Krystalli
Dr Roxani Krystalli is a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. A key question animating her work is what sustains life in the face of loss. Roxani co-leads an international research project on how practices of love and care help people imagine lives in the wake of grief, illness, violence, and ecological loss. […]
April Eva Shepherd
April Shepherd is an Australian creative based in Glasgow, and has been a journalist, writer and editor for the past eight years, working for an eclectic collection of magazine, newspaper and digital content publishers. She has also been in the sex industry for the past four years, working as a sugar baby, escort, model and […]
William Devine
Want is a youth worker from Geelong, Australia. Based out of Glasgow, Want has been working on a collaborative piece focused on amplifying young voices in his local and wider community. Exploring the medium of words for the first time, Want utilises a sociological perspective in hopes to identify and highlight strengths and community needs.
Solasta Lucky McIntyre
Solasta Lucky McIntyre is an interdisciplinary creative, somatic educator and psychotherapist at Sir With Sol Therapy. His current artistic practice is focused on writing memoir and screenplay, researching mixed gaelic-celtic ancestry, and multi-media documentary of their life as an autistic polyamorous bi-gender lesbian recovering from cptsd. He writes the What’s Healing Me Lately weekly on […]