In 2021, Rhiannon Adam was selected for the dearMoon mission, the first civilian spaceflight to deep space. In 2024, it was abruptly cancelled by its billionaire funder. The work blurs fact and fiction, reflecting on Adam’s psychological re-entry.
A blueprint for living is a way of celebrating our present while acknowledging the hardship and persecution that queer people still quest to overcome. To understand queer joy, we must also understand it as hard won.
In 2015 I spent three months on the remote British island of Pitcairn in the Pacific. Pitcairn is home to just 42 people, most of whom are descendants of the Bounty Mutiny. In 2004, the island's romantic image was ripped apart by a series of child abuse trials. Now just one child remains.