Maria Jastrzębska shares the powerful stories behind the three objects she is donating to our Queer Museum.
Polish-British poet, feminist, editor, translator and playwright, Maria has published three full-length volumes of poetry and two pamphlets. She is the co-founded Queer Writing South and South Pole.
In this interview Maria talks about being a girl scout, feminist activism and intersectionality, and the inherent queerness of poetry...
Recorded remotely on April 29, 2021
Interview by: Roni Guetta and David Sheppeard
Editing and original music by Olive Mondegreen
Photo of me on the steps of No.6 Percival Terrace - where I lived with my second Brighton boyfriend. Note that No.7 is under construction. In fact, 7-12 had collapsed some years before as a result of a sink-hole underneath the building. Rebuilt in the same late Georgian style in the noughties, the row is complete once again.
Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2012 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ programme highlights include:
A Right Pair - Bette Bourne & Paul Shaw
Trouser Wearing Characters - Rose Collis
Mae-Day: I'm Not Waving I'm Drowning - Mae Martin
Rachael's Café - Little Fly Theatre
Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2013 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ highlights include:
Adventure Misdaventure - Nick Field
A Right Pair - Bette Bourne and Paul Shaw
Night After Night by Neil Bartlett and Nicholas Bloomfield - performed by Paul Shaw Nicholas Bloomfield
Sister Acts - Mzz Kimberley and Son of a Tutu
Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2015 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ programme highlights include:
Big Girl's Blouse - Kate O'Donnell
Miss Behave's Gameshow - Miss Behave with Harry Clayton-Wright
Hard Graft - David Sheppeard
Chisteene Machine
Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2016 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ programme highlights include:
Naked Boys Reading
Sissy's Progress - Nando Messias
Break Yourself - Ira Brand
Funeral Doom Spiritual For Male Soprano Piano & Electronics - M Lamar
Help! I Think I Might Be Fabulous - Alfie Ordinary
King of the Fringe
Joan - Milk Presents
Stud - Ivor McAskill
The Daily Grind - Laurie Brown
Women's Hour - Sh!t Theatre
Marlborough Theatre Brighton Fringe 2017 Brochure designed by Sarah Ferrari.
Pink Fringe LGBTIQ+ programme highlights include:
Triple Threat - Lucy McCormick
Makin in Rain - Nicole Henriksen
The Comforter - Stacy Makishi
OUT - Rachael Young
Gypsy Queen - Hope Theatre Company
The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony) - Holly Hughes
Sex Education - Harry Clayton-Wright
Who Do You Think You Are? Barbara Brownskirt
The Girl From Oz - Courtney Act
A4 programme of The Marlborough Theatre's 2011 fringe events. Inside it lists theatre, comedy, cabaret events and kids workshops, as well as the return of Pink Fringe in its second year.
A5 paper programme for Marlborough Theatre's 2014 fringe events. It includes details of a street party celebrating The Marlborough's 220th birthday, events as part of PINKFRINGE, and events across theatre, comedy, cabaret, and dance and physical theatre. There are also events for young people.
The Martin Fisher Foundation is a partnership of people living with HIV, community representatives & clinicians. The charity's aim is to end the HIV epidemic and eliminate HIV stigma by 2030.
With effective treatment, HIV is like any other long- term medical condition. One tablet a day can suppress the virus and stop it from being passed on.
People diagnosed early with HIV and started on treatment can remain fit and well, and live as long as anyone else.
The celebration and launch of the Martin Fisher Foundation takes place on 14th September 2015, 14:00–16:15 at Brighton Dome. To include a tribute film, Towards Zero, a call to action led by Baroness Gould and Professor Jane Anderson, personal pledges and music. 16:15–18:00: opportunity for meeting old and new friends at the foyer bar.
Informative leaflet distributed by the NHS about masturbation, including the perception of masturbation in wider society, common myths, and benefits of masturbation including how it can be utilised in the practice of safer sex.
The leaflet aims to inform readers about masturbation and destigmatise and reduce shame around the practice.
Published in September 2011 by the Centre for HIV and Sexual Health which is a part of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.