Home 2020 Mel Reeve Age: 26Location: Glasgow Mel Reeve is an archivist and writer. She runs the Bi History (@BiHistory) archive and research project dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of the bisexual+ community. She led the Stride with Pride project at Glasgow Women’s Library to create an LGBTQ+ heritage trail…
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Home 2020 Mia Age: 30Location: Glasgow Mia is a Palestinian-Fifer Muslim who sings, acts, writes, plays piano and psychologises. Outside of work: a carer, cat mum, has lived mental health experiences, and is passionate about human rights and equality. Mia is distractible, impulsive, stubborn, clumsy and regularly mistaken. Far from…
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Home 2020 Nadia Mirza-Saadi Age: 20Location: Glasgow I’m a Scottish South Asian who works with several organisations to put on brilliant South Asian cultural events, challenging racial stereotypes and internalised racism. I also am an Astrophysics student who creates. Through my painting, I have explored Pakistani Truck Art Painting and…
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Home 2020 Revati Campbell Age: 19Location: Glasgow / Dundee Revati is the current Convener of the Scottish Youth Parliament’s Equalities and Human Rights Committee. Revati is also a current member of YWCA Scotland’s Young Women Lead programme for its third year running. She is currently studying Scots Law at the University of…
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Home 2020 Sarah Naseer Location: Glasgow I’m an Architecture graduate who loves to make, design and create and wants to help others do the same! Together with my best friend, Aaron, we realised that there wasn’t a space in Glasgow where people could go to share ideas, be creative, and…
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Home 2020 Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe Age: 30Location: Glasgow Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe is a 30-year-old lawyer and activist. She is a Lecturer in Law at Glasgow Caledonian University, having previously worked at the International Criminal Court and at a Scottish law centre, specialising in the rights of refugee and migrant communities. Her current work focuses on human rights law; public interest…
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Home 2020 Siobhan McKenna Age: 29Location: Glasgow Siobhan is the founder and designer behind ReJean, a gender-neutral sustainable fashion label built on reclaiming, repurposing and repairing denim for a new generation of conscious consumers. Each ReJean piece is completely one of a kind, handcrafted using discarded denim which we deconstruct and reimagine into something…
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Home 2020 Tor Scott Age: 28Location: Edinburgh Tor is a Collection & Research Assistant at the National Galleries of Scotland, and an AHRC funded PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Edinburgh. She is passionate about Surrealist art and esoteric cultural heritage, especially folklore and occultism in Scottish…
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Home 2020 Victoria Wylie Age: 16Location: Fortrose I’m a 16-year-old Autistic teenager that lives in the Highlands of Scotland. I attend Fortrose Academy and I’m currently in S5! Before lockdown, I went to 10 schools (including my secondary school) by myself doing school assemblies about Autism to spread awareness to all…
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Home 2019 Alex Porter-Smith Location: Edinburgh Alex is currently one half of High Tide, a film production company based in Edinburgh. Initially, their work involved filming conferences and festivals. The Hidden Door Festival is particularly worth to mention, as High Tide’s collaboration on the fundraising helped Hidden Door to smash their…
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