Voicebox: All Voices are equal

"I remember drawing a swiggly line, looking at it, then thinking “I’ve never seen that before. I have invented that.”  A short time later I was in a car, staring up at a billboard with a picture of a heart rate on it, saw the zig-zag line on that and thought that they had stolen my artistic idea."

"In the words of my old twitter bio I’m a ‘writer and director, and a hot tempered short arse trans man who wears a lot of jewellery’."

"I’m a non-binary Northern drag queen with a giant belly and a voice that never dropped. Ten years ago I would’ve been laughed at, now I’m celebrated and that is due to the work of people before me and people around me."

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