Panel Talk: Queer, Disabled and Unapologetic: Protest at the Margins
What does protest look like when it exists at the intersections of queerness and disability? This panel brings together activists, artists, and thinkers who are unapologetically queer, disabled, and rooted in resistance. Together, we’ll explore how disability justice and queer liberation movements inform and challenge each other, and how protest—whether loud, quiet, online, or embodied—emerges from those living at the margins of mainstream activism.
From access-centered organising and crip joy to fighting state violence, this conversation asks: whose voices are still being excluded from traditional protest narratives? And how can we make space for more radical, nuanced, and sustainable forms of resistance?
Wednesday 6 August
7:30pm [doors at 7pm]
CAMP, Margate @campmargate
PANEL
Ellen Jones is a trailblazing author, strategist, and award-winning campaigner, renowned for her work in fostering inclusion and advocating for LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and disabled communities. Her expertise and dedication to inclusion have earned her numerous accolades, including the prestigious MTV EMA Generation Change Award and Stonewall’s Young Campaigner of the Year title. She is also the Founder of Pansy Studios, a queer-led marketing agency through which she runs the largest directory of LGBTQ+ freelance talent anywhere in the world. Ellen’s highly anticipated debut book, 'Outrage: Why the Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won and What You Can Do About It', was published by Bluebird Pan Macmillan in January 2025; it explores not only the challenges LGBTQ+ people are facing, but specifically the actions anyone can take to show up for the community.
Nell Andrew is a queer, disabled, neurospicy EDI facilitator, speaker, artist and cultural events producer.
Driving inclusion practises over the last two decades on issues from domestic abuse, menopause, reasonable adjustments and trans inclusion, their work focuses on practical, person centred solutions and policy change.
Nell is the co-author of ‘Thinking differently at Work’ toolkit on neurodiversity in the workplace featured in the Evening Standard and BBC Cape. They are a trustee for LGBT Foundation, an advisor for Margate Pride and NBE fitness and a former Disability Rights UK Leadership Academy Mentor.
Detchema Baptiste is a qualified Occupational Therapist with extensive experience in charities, mental health, and homelessness services across the UK.
Driven by personal and professional experience, she is passionate about helping people maintain independence, purpose, and meaningful connections.
As an experienced facilitator, Detchema leads educational, vocational, and therapeutic activities for diverse groups, including young people and adults with physical, mental, and learning difficulties in both hospital and community settings