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T. J. Bacon
T. J. Bacon (she/they) publishes under the name T. J. Bacon and creates artwork using the moniker tjb. Dr Tōmei June Bacon is a trans-femme pansexual person with hidden disabilities. Her practice as an artist-philosopher foregrounds transgender studies and phenomenology, alongside queer theory, crip theory, disaster studies, and futures to consider visual art, performance art, activism and curation. She has exhibited internationally for over twenty years with a practice rooted in the elemental and esoteric. She is also the founder and artistic director of Tempting Failure, which produces and supports international visual art, performance art and sonic art. She is currently resident researcher at Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD). She is the lead on the Queer Acts of Hope line of enquiry at the Guildhall De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice & Research. She is the founder of the Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence, an international group of scholars who have formed an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and advocacy group. She lives and works in London.
