meet the team
eff-able was cooked up one day when George Parker and JP Seabright realised they liked writing poems about sex and the queer disabled sexual experience, but there was little out there to read. Rather than simply share these erotic offerings with each other, they felt it would be a great idea to publish an anthology and organise a tour so that everyone can enjoy queer crip sexual liberation and celebration!
Luckily, fourteen poems thought this was a great idea too, and we’re grateful to Arts Council England for also seeing the value in highlighting this marginalised experience by funding the eff-able project.
George Violet Parker (they/them) is a disabled and queer writer, performer, producer, and workshop facilitator. They are a co-director of Queer Stage Revolution, the host of A. G. Parker’s Cabinet of Curiosities podcast, co-host of Rebel Riot Poetry, Disabled and Queer Artist of the Year 2022, and an H&T slam winner. They were nominated for the National Diversity Awards 2023 as a positive role model for disability, and longlisted for a Space Crone Prize and Best of the Net. Their performance history includes The V&A Performance Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Pride in London, Manchester Pride, London Fashion Week, Bar Wotever, Wrestival, Lese Majeste.
Their craft essay about disability representation in fiction features in Human/Kind Press’ anthology Musing the Margins. Their novel Twisted Roots was published in 2023 by Reconnecting Rainbows Press. Their collaborative poetry pamphlet Not Your Orlando (Punk Dust) was published in June 2024, and their debut collection Gynandromorph (Written Off) is due out December 2024. They run disability and queerness-focused diversity and inclusion training, most recently for Wates, and at the Royal College of Art.
JP Seabright (she/they) is a queer disabled writer living in London. They have five solo pamphlets published: Fragments from Before the Fall (Beir Bua Press, 2021 and Sunday Mornings at the River, 2023); No Holds Barred (Lupercalia Press, 2022); The Insomniac’s Almanac (kith books, 2023); Traum/A (fifthwheelpress, 2023); what are you afraid of? (Querencia Press, 2024); and four collaborative works: GenderFux (Nine Pens Press, 2022), MACHINATIONS (Trickhouse Press, 2022), MotherFlux (Nine Pens Press, 2024), Not Your Orlando (Punk Dust Poetry, 2024) Their first full collection White Cloud Over Purple was published by Atomic Bohemian in 2024.
JP explores themes of gender, sexuality, trauma, technology and the climate crisis in her work spanning poetry, prose, experimental and audio/visual pieces. She has performed at venues such as the Vagina Museum, Primadonna Festival, Margate Bookie Festival, Poetry Pharmacy, Polari Literary Salon and the National Poetry Library. Their pamphlets have been shortlisted (twice) for Best Collaborative Work in the Saboteur Awards, as well prose and poetry being nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and (twice) a Forward Prize. More info at https://jpseabright.com/
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