2024
Extract: “I’ve been a bit worried about writing this letter in this way, perhaps it makes me look naive or narcissistic, beginning something to answer my own questions, including people here that were called to contribute, revealing the flaws already in my system of outreach; you’ll see how far my network connects, how I have focused on a few rather than many, intentionally making a mistake of being in confined quarters of knowledge, that I hope with this–in SISSY ANARCHY–over time extends beyond myself and becomes entwined with all, everything and everyone, representing progressive potential, reaching into the domestic communal and realising these spaces as the public political, weaving anarchist-socialist-communist thinking so that it might become an attentive attack on the capitalist economy through organising and sharing alternative models of care. But, whether deemed a facile attempt, it’s an honest one that focuses on the experiences of those inscribed here; what has happened to them, how they have come to understand the world(s) around them. They all give voice to something I can only come to understand through their voice and what I’ve learned most is that everything around us doesn’t have one voice but many; revealing intersectional activism(s) that coincide together in correspondence with one another.
Moving beyond points of philosophical reasoning, I’ve given away my autonomy by following their visions, writings, essays, poems, activisms, photographs, and all else here, to be witness–with you–on what converges and creates a radical politics against racism, transicide, femicide, and ecocide through abolishing the state and defunding militarisation, incarceration institutions, and the police; beginning with a call to question on manifesto. Considering, what needs to be included (as an imperative) into a manifesto for queer archaism, socialism, and communism. Questioning, where does queer theory and artistic practice intersect with grassroots activism? How do you contribute to and build a manifesto to something in a decentralised way that is in the process of forming? Do we need cohesion and certainty in manifesto or can we contradict and overlap concepts, intertwining historic activism with contemporary organisation and theory?
All of these are things that matter to me, maybe they will to you too or they might not, either way I don’t give a fuck because it’s out there and it’s important and that’s what counts. Anyone can do this–and this is by no means the best example–but this is an attempt to start, and I hope to see it continue as it is unequivocally–in my opinion–of equal and shattering importance as the other things you flip through or fill your mind-space, bookshelves, archives and libraries with; all of which I nod toward as the forefounders in the creation and navigation of what SISSY ANARCHY is for and against.
I will no longer be suffocated by the conservative, tortuous and mediocre, apathetic scum; and so I present you with those that are chic, slutty, and cunty on a quest for similar salvation. Without you this isn’t possible: LEE RAE WALSH, DONNA MARCUS DUKE, SAM MOORE, AILO RIBAS, SWEATMOTHER, L SCULLY, MAGGIE VON SACHER, MISHA HONCHARENKO, MAUD ACHEAMPONG, MAYAH MONET LOVELL, BARNEY PAU, YOUTH SELF DEFENCE GROUP, JOEL DIXON.“
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2024
Extract: “I understand my departure from holy conceptions as something to subvert into other revelations. As you will see here, beneath each word, photograph, activism, and vision, there exists a gesture of movement in creating a trans queer (angelic) anarchism. Each contributor gives up their environment, their daily encoded stances, to define with me here — in what has become such a tender edition of SISSY ANARCHY — a world where boundaries are stretched and obliterated. This issue invites you to collude with their thoughts on the A1 graph, where all contributors share a phrase, thought, or tool which they believe is essential to a trans queer anarchism. Please use the space left blank for you to include something vulgar, acutely alien, or completely unfathomable yet essential in the stance of ending imposed violence, marginalisation, and turmoil. Once you have filled in your section, please scan or photograph your poster and send a copy to me. All issues of this edition will be different by the marks made by its readers. Be bold, slut.
SISSY ANARCHY #2 is nothing without the contributions of: JEAN CLEVERLEY, JOEL DIXON, DONNA MARCUS DUKE, BENJAMIN FREDRICKSON, JORDAN HEARNS, MISHA HONCHARENKO, IAN IVEY, HESSE K., MAYAH MONET LOVELL, SAM MOORE, D MORTIMER, BARNEY PAU, L SCULLY, PISSED OFF TRANNIES, AILO VILLAN, LEE RAE WALSH.“
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Sissy Anarchy
2025
‘Hot on the heels of his poetry debut, Skin of Nocturnal Apple, Misha Honcharenko returns with Trap Unfolds Me Greedily. The book is a floating, poetically-inclined anti-novel about the terror of living, the way the past holds us hostage, and the fear of death–or at least its abruptness. Dread suffuses the thoughts of our narrator as his strange and estranging syntax leaves us bewitched and unnerved. The book doesn’t let up, cedes no corner, and leaves a mark. What more can we ask for?’
— Nate Lippens, author of RIPCORD and My Dead Book
‘Misha Honcharenko’s new novel is a surreal adventure into language. There’s a visceral horror to the text, but the sentences have a wild abandon that brings to mind the queer freedom of the poems of John Ashbery. We are taken through a fairground mirrored world of bodies, childhood, the past, war, violence and moments of engulfing silence. Honcharenko’s voice and style are fresh and a pleasure to read. Given some of the personal circumstances that the book was written under, the fact that Trap Unfolds Me Greedily is here at all is nothing short of extraordinary. I urge you to get behind this project and support a great book from a brilliant young writer.’
— Thomas Moore, author of Your Dreams
‘Trap Unfolds Me Greedily is tender, urgent, transcendent work. Like poetry, you don’t know where it’s going to go next, but every line promises it will be somewhere delicate and chaotic and true.’
— Lauren Elkin, author of Art Monsters
‘Trap Unfolds Me Greedily is a novel—or something like a novel—that abandons the established laws of language in favour of creating, with the violent and elliptical strangeness of its sentences, a new kind of grammar: one whose effect on the reader is not merely intellectual, but psychically overwhelming. It is a book designed to be felt as much as read. War is hell; here is a record of its heat.’
— Philippa Snow, author of Which as You Know Means Violence
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Sissy Anarchy
2024
SISSY ANARCHY is poised to redefine the boundaries of confessional literature with a groundbreaking new journal series. Prepare to be confronted with a raw and unflinching exploration of the human psyche as genre-defying writers delve deep into the corners of their personal experiences.
Our inaugural journal, KNOTS by Fi Kube, is a searing auto-essay that unfurls the knots of personal trauma. With unflinching honesty, Kube confronts the complex and intersecting issues of trans misogyny, child sexual abuse, and sexual and gendered violence. This unflinching exploration invites readers into a realm of profound vulnerability and resilience.
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Writer & Editor
pierce.eldridge@gmail.com
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In 2025, she was announced as artist in residence and activist partner (at the 2025 Amnesty Amplify Summit) with Amnesty International, working together to distribute the “Trans Inclusive Bathroom Access Initiative Stickers” designed by SISSY ANARCHY; and awarded the Rising Star Award by The Printing Charity.
Her work has appeared in Flash Art, Studio Magazine, CIRCA, and more; and she has interviewed artists and writers such as Judy Chicago, Juliana Huxtable, Shon Faye, Cortisa Star, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Torrey Peters. She has edited writings by Chris Kraus, Anne Rower, Estelle Hoy, and Octavia Bright, and her practice has been featured in DAZED, Service95, AnOther, and at Tate Modern, to name a few.
Director and Editor of Worms World C.I.C. (also known as Worms Magazine and Publishing)
Co-Founder and Facilitator of The Compost Library
Contemporary Museum Education (Diploma), Pratt Institute
Business Advanced Marketing (BA), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Applied and Contemporary Theatre (BA), Griffith University
Photographic Mythologies (Cert IV), TAFE Queensland
Visiting Practitioner (Full Term), The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, March 2023
Freelance Communications Manager of Studio Scilicet, founded by artist Sougwen Chung, currently in collaboration with Studio Wayne McGregor and acquisition collection for Victoria and Albert Museum, 2022
Graduate Ambassador for RCA Curating Contemporary Art: Writing Intensive for November, 2022
Festival Coordinator of Pop Up North Queensland Festival (PUNQ) for Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, 2019–2022
Exhibitions, Website and Marketing Coordinator of Modern Times, 2016–2018
Photography Instructor of Photoh, 2013–2016
Trap Unfolds Me Greedily, book launch for SISSY ANARCHY (Housmans Bookshop)
Whatever happens, you’re my sister, an exhibition of trans femme work (Feminist Library)
KNOTS, journal launch for SISSY ANARCHY (Housmans Bookshop)
Tusk Chicago, featuring SISSY ANARCHY
Queer Ecologies Poetry Readings and Zine Launch, editor and host (Sutton House)
The Compost Library, special edition event with Cremate (Fieldworks)
SISSY ANARCHY: Be A Sissy Fundraiser (SET Social Peckham)
Dazed x Page Masters Book Fair (Dazed Space)
Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair (Leisham Art House)
Launch of SISSY ANARCHY #2 at (Institute of Contemporary Art, London)
Wellcome Collection, zine takeover featuring SISSY ANARCHY
Anarchist Zine Fair (Freedom Bookshop)
Koppel Curates featuring SISSY ANARCHY
Acquisition of Sougwen Chung’s MEMORY (Drawing Operations Unit Generation 2, also known as D.O.U.G.2) (Victoria & Albert Museum)
Circle of Care, installation and performance (Camden Art Centre)
Make Interspecies Relations, online exhibition with Next Door Ari
It Matters What Happens Next, co-curator of public programme with live events, performance and workshop (Camden Art Centre)
Both Ways, Libby Harward, Tony Albert, Bural Bural (Patsy Dallachy), Gail Mabo, Jupiter Mosman, Captive Lives, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
From the Desert to the Sea, First Nations artist Stephen Oliver/Sailor of Waanyi, Kuku Yalanji and Erub Island at Big Eye Arts & Cultural Centre, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
Preserve/Conserve — Invocation #3: Openness - Going With the Flow, Jill Chism, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
The Mark, Jenny Mulcahy, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
Drop Bear, Jan Hynes, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
Untitled (Gloves), Tania Lou Smith, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
World Interior, Dancenorth Australia, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
After, Alison McDonald, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
Site #272, David Rowe, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
One Journey: Many Stories, Many People, Many Places, Big Eye Arts and Cultural Centre, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
Pop Up North Queensland (PUNQ) Festival, Gurambilbarra (Townsville)
How Are You (In Isolation)?, Digital Exhibition, Lilli Waters, Andrew Treloar, Dylan Kelleher, Karlo Martinez, Jay Davies, Kate Brouwer, Matthew Woliansky, Brooke Wynn, Helen Adam, Grace Carver, Philippa Gell, Lauren Pietrafesa, Toby Lawrenson, Shay Reeves, Gene Smith, and Grace Cloeman
Joy, Featured Artist in Group Exhibition by Analog Forever Magazine, Online
Relics Today, Sculptural Group Exhibition at Modern Times, Naarm (Melbourne)
Cerberus, Hannah Nowlan, Naarm (Melbourne)
Preservation, Elizabeth Barnett, Naarm (Melbourne)
Outdistance, Derek Swalwell, Naarm (Melbourne)
Light Sensitive, featured artist in group exhibition by Southside Tea Room
The Birth of a Woman Who Once Was an Elaborate Concoction of Man, a writing workshop for Mutate Co. (Toynbee Studios with Royal Central School London)
Social Anarchism & Queer Utopic Ecologies, a writing workshop for Queer Ecologies
University of Arts London Publishing, panelist for SISSY ANARCHY
Bleet Zine, panelist for SISSY ANARCHY (Artwords Bookshop)
Making Collective, workshop for Antiuniversity Now with El Warcha
Artist in Residence in the Everglades (AIRIE), 2024
Koppel Project, October Artist in Residence (Cell Projects), 2024
Creative Development, SUB with Ashleigh Musk, Tasmania
CODEY22, Nextdoor ARI
Creative Development, GUTS Studio / Araluen Arts Centre
The Makers Program, Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance at Home of the Arts (HOTA) Gold Coast
Bath St Residency, Red Hot Arts Central Australia
Trippin: The Compost Library
Doc 122: On “Love Lost” (An Endless Playlist) / Various (Interlude Docs)
On Your Radar: P. Eldridge (La Fomo)
#69: sissy anarchy, everglades & me, my body (Sent From My iPhone With Love)
Why are we all so obsessed with book clubs now? (DAZED Magazine)
Writing for Wellness (Service 95)
Sensory mixes of the future (Inner Magazine)
Artist Forecast: P. Eldridge (Supercell Festival)
Last Updated 13 Nov 2025
Writer & Editor
pierce.eldridge@gmail.com
P. Eldridge is a curator, writer, and cultural agitator working between London and so-called Australia. She is the founding editor of SISSY ANARCHY – most recently featured at the sixtieth Venice Art Biennale – “SISSY” columnist for Gay Times, director of Worms World C.I.C., and co-founder of The Compost Library; platforms dedicated to unruly voices, queer resistance, and experimental writing.
In 2025, she was announced as artist in residence and activist partner (at the 2025 Amnesty Amplify Summit) with Amnesty International, working together to distribute the “Trans Inclusive Bathroom Access Initiative Stickers” designed by SISSY ANARCHY; and awarded the Rising Star Award by The Printing Charity.
Her work has appeared in Flash Art, Studio Magazine, CIRCA, and more; and she has interviewed artists and writers such as Judy Chicago, Juliana Huxtable, Shon Faye, Cortisa Star, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Torrey Peters. She has edited writings by Chris Kraus, Anne Rower, Estelle Hoy, and Octavia Bright, and her practice has been featured in DAZED, Service95, AnOther, and at Tate Modern, to name a few.
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