Chardine Taylor-Stone is a British feminist activist, writer and musician. [1] In December 2015 Taylor-Stone founded Stop Rainbow Racism to campaign against the performance of ‘Black face’ at LGBTQ+ Venues. [2] [3] The campaign began in response to a performance by Drag queen Charlie Hides at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Taylor-Stone was the drummer for the band Big Joanie, started in 2013. [4] On 5 October 2023, the band announced that Taylor-Stone had left, replaced by an interim drummer for their European tour that month. [5]
Taylor-Stone was born in London and is from a working-class background. [6] She was raised in Kettering where at age 17 she first became politically active in the Stop The War Coalition. [7] She studied a BA Arts and Humanities and Masters in Laws (LLM) at Birkbeck, University of London. [8] [9]
In 2015 Taylor-Stone organised an intergenerational one-day conference ‘Black British Feminism: Past, Present and Futures’ at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton with Black feminist and friend of Olive Morris, Liz Obi . [10] [11] In 2016 she co-founded Black Girls Picnic with cultural activist Kayza Rose. [12] In 2017 Taylor-Stone won the British LGBT Award for Contribution to LGBT+ life for the Stop Rainbow Racism campaign. [13] In 2021 she returned the award in protest at the award’s sponsorship of MI5 and MI6 [14]
Taylor-Stone has written and spoken about Black British Feminism, [15] racism in LGBT Communities, [16] British working-class life, [17] Afrofuturism, [18] music [19] [20] and socialism. [21] [22] In 2022 Big Joanie were nominated for Best Alternative Act at the MOBO Awards. [23]
· British LGBT Award for Contribution to LGBT+ life (2017) [13]
· The Voice Newspaper's Women Who Rocked the World (2015)
· The Most Inspiring British LGBT People Of 2016 [24]
· Pride Power List 2018
· Pride Power List 2019
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link)Chardine Taylor-Stone is a British feminist activist, writer and musician. [1] In December 2015 Taylor-Stone founded Stop Rainbow Racism to campaign against the performance of ‘Black face’ at LGBTQ+ Venues. [2] [3] The campaign began in response to a performance by Drag queen Charlie Hides at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Taylor-Stone was the drummer for the band Big Joanie, started in 2013. [4] On 5 October 2023, the band announced that Taylor-Stone had left, replaced by an interim drummer for their European tour that month. [5]
Taylor-Stone was born in London and is from a working-class background. [6] She was raised in Kettering where at age 17 she first became politically active in the Stop The War Coalition. [7] She studied a BA Arts and Humanities and Masters in Laws (LLM) at Birkbeck, University of London. [8] [9]
In 2015 Taylor-Stone organised an intergenerational one-day conference ‘Black British Feminism: Past, Present and Futures’ at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton with Black feminist and friend of Olive Morris, Liz Obi . [10] [11] In 2016 she co-founded Black Girls Picnic with cultural activist Kayza Rose. [12] In 2017 Taylor-Stone won the British LGBT Award for Contribution to LGBT+ life for the Stop Rainbow Racism campaign. [13] In 2021 she returned the award in protest at the award’s sponsorship of MI5 and MI6 [14]
Taylor-Stone has written and spoken about Black British Feminism, [15] racism in LGBT Communities, [16] British working-class life, [17] Afrofuturism, [18] music [19] [20] and socialism. [21] [22] In 2022 Big Joanie were nominated for Best Alternative Act at the MOBO Awards. [23]
· British LGBT Award for Contribution to LGBT+ life (2017) [13]
· The Voice Newspaper's Women Who Rocked the World (2015)
· The Most Inspiring British LGBT People Of 2016 [24]
· Pride Power List 2018
· Pride Power List 2019
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