Read The Room Magazine has been put together by a diverse collective of queer women, trans and nonbinary creatives, journalists, academics and fans, from around the world, who are passionate about arts and culture and the representation in it.
Through interviews, articles, opinion pieces and reviews, with this magazine, we aim to bring attention to the issues and interests that mean the most to us with a focus on women, LGBTQIA+ and marginalised voices.
Meet the Read The Room team:
Alfie has been immersed in various facets of the creative industry for almost 20 years. Most notably performing music as Laurence Made Me Cry, Alfie is also an acclaimed illustrator and founded the (now sadly defunct) award winning music and culture webzine Cat On The Wall. Gaining a BA in ‘Media Studies with Visual Cultures’ at Cardiff Met University in Wales, Alfie also enjoys analysing the crap out of media and popular culture. They have a number of short films in various states of productions and is developing the Quota Collective - an arts organisation composed of neurodiverse, disabled and mentally ill creatives, Alfie is definitely having a productive mid-life-crisis. They live in West Yorkshire with their wife and children (cats).
Helena has been an avid consumer of TV and media all her life, spending much of her youth sneaking into the family computer room to watch her then-favorite TV shows, much to the chagrin of her parents. A graduate of the Film & TV Production program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Helena has spent much of her career on sets, both as a creative/line producer on indie projects and in the Assistant Director department for major studio/network tv shows. She’s a production nerd and always wants to know as much as possible about how something was made, even if it seems trivial! Her passion is representation in media both in front of and behind the camera, and she loves talking about TV and the queer and female representation in it. She lives in NYC with her plant that is miraculously still alive.
Candice started writing stories since her childhood. At first, it was a way for her to relax her brain but she quickly felt herself falling in love with the process of writing and what it would mean to her ever since. Fascinated by the complex craft of acting she finds inspiration to write through watching someone’s performance whether it be a tv show, movie or play. She’s currently looking for a job that will allow her to do what she wants: be a journalist. She lives in drancy near Paris!Dominique Gagnon, Thomas Beech, Mieks Weijers, Amber Smith, Hazel Ashe, Beatrice Copland, Mariana Weber, Ivy Hanover, Liam Knights.