People

Alex Lyons is a neurodiverse queer feminist performance artist, associate lecturer and PhD researcher in Drama and Performance. Her work explores gender, sexuality and the representations of vulvas in contemporary performance. Her current work is interested in how performance can be used as a methodology to challenge heteronormative and patriarchal thinking. If you catch her in the museum, she loves chatting about the queering of theories, performance art practises and of course, vulvas and vaginas.

Alyssa loves to share too much information. As the host and co-producer of the Vagina Museum podcast, she gets to interview fantastic people about their research, stories and passions to bring to you – a much better outlet for her love of sharing. Alyssa works in event production and public engagement with science when not researching and recording all things vagina and vulva for the podcast. In and out of the UK since 2013, this Canadian is officially a milky tea convert.

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Fluid by definition, Charlie hopes being a human in constant progress. Passionate about cinema, they became a journalist and created La Bobinette Flingueuse, column specialising in feminist cinema to celebrate diversity and tackle male gaze, for a French online publication. After years of critics, they moved to London where they are pursuing their career in the cinema industry but on the distribution and programme side. At the same time, they start their journey as an activist. They co-founded Les Passantes, a French intersectional feminist collective, where they advocated for survivors. They also were part of a collages collective. Apart from cinema and activism, Charlie is interested in gender identity, semiology and etymology, and keep writing during their spare time semi-fictional scripts and novels about queer feminist (dys)topia.

Esme is an undergraduate archaeology student, focusing on early Medieval religion and how it relates to the care of children. He's also interested in the Iron Age in Britain and Ireland, and general feminist history. She loves archery, baking, and the Lord of the Rings.

At the museum, you'll find him behind the bar - stop by and say hi!

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Jannine is American but has been living abroad with her partner of 30+ years and their two children, for more than a decade. She has been exploring what it truly means to be a Feminist (better late than never) and The Vagina Museum, her fellow Duty Managers, the Vulvateers and Museum Patrons have all contributed to her education and love of all things V-related. Interestingly, this has also inspired an absolute adoration for Romance novels and hopes to carve out a little Romance section in the new Museum space. Feel free to ask for recommendations!

Jay is a fierce feminist who has also worked with London’s Feminist Library. She is a proud proponent of intersectional feminism and believes that everyone should have access to a comprehensive sex education, so she is excited to welcome as many people to the Vagina Museum as possible! If you can explain the distinction between a vulva and a vagina when you leave the museum, she will reward you with a beaming smile, or with something else of no monetary value.

Katja is a writer and chronic people pleaser (aka service industry veteran) with dreams of finishing a speculative fiction novel about bright, green, queer futures. In between keeping houseplants alive and baking sourdough, she can be found surviving on a healthy diet of Ursula le Guin, NK Jemisin and Yoon Ha Lee. She is currently very invested in crafting an anti-capitalist, queer future in which everyone knows the difference between the vagina and the vulva.

Kayla is an Anglo-American writer and director for the stage and screen. In her spare time, she writes poetry and twitter rants, and enjoys directing museum visitors towards all her favourite books in our gift shop. In the wild, she can often be found reading, discussing intersectional feminism and/or gender performativity with anyone who will listen, or searching for the nearest coffee. She has a vagina of her very own, which she is very proud of, and she would very much like the band Dorothy to tour to the UK.

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Rachel is proud owner of a vulva! When she discovered menstrual cups she persuaded all her friends to try them too and would ask for regular c-updates! I'll be tending the bar so come have a chat.

Rhubi is a designer, maker, carpenter and talker. Having studied RIBA Part I & II architecture, she's worked in a variety of architectural and design practices, with a specialism in community engagement and co-design, and now runs Built This Way, a queer trans carpentry/joinery/fit-out company, with her colleague Jo.

Rhubi has previously done work for the Vagina Museum, designing and fabricating temporary exhibition frames for the Camden space, and leading on the fit out and build of the space when the museum was in Victoria Park Square.

When not making stuff out of wood, Rhubi can usually be found getting over-excited about niche materials or ingredients, cooking (she describes her meals as "twatty"), or socialising across feminist, queer and trans spheres, usually with a glass of something in hand!

Thomas is a bi curly-haired Frenchman who enjoys shenanigans. Most of his work these past few years have been on supporting victims and survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking.

As a true representative of his home country, his main interests are food, painfully bad puns, going to places he is not from, and complaining.

While you visit the museum, you may see him behind the bar where he will try his best to get your order right and give it to you with no delay but with a smile.

Zoe is communications professional who specialises in not specialising, preferring to work at all levels in small organisations who make a big difference. She's worked for diverse causes from democratic reform to rare genetic diseases, and is delighted to be a part of the Vagina Museum to use her skills to educate, empower and challenge. Zoe is an ardent feminist, and in her spare time gets involved in activism for social and gender justice, as well as writing and baking for fun. Zoe's educational background is in Health Psychology.