Kell w Farshéa
Kell w Farshéa is an anarchist. She is a trans nonbinary femme. She uses She, They & K pronouns. And she is a Femmedom.
She has been active as an anarchist since 1980, aged 14, and has participated in many important moments in radical/anarchist history. From Stop the City in 83, Mansfield, Orgreave, opposition to Alton Bill in 88, Section 28, the first criminal justice act of 84 to the CJB demonstration, the poll tax riot, the monopoly board mayday event through to the recent Police Crime Sentencing and Courts bill demo on mayday 2021.
She has been an active anti-racist, antifascist, vegan, bdsm, pan/queer feminist anarchist for over 41 years (and counting). She has been active in LGBTQ politics for 40 years. She was spokesperson & press officer for ACTUP London (1989-92), Co-Founder of the London House (and UK existence) of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (1990+); Founded Countdown on Spanner/The Spanner Campaign (1992-1997), SM Pride (1992-2003) and created, and served as an initial founding trustee of, the Spanner Trust (1996-). In 2019 she co-founded the history archive project ISMS (the Institute of SM Studies).
For 5 years she wrote a monthly column for trilingual Paris based magazine Projet X, she currently writes a quarterly column for Freedom (the oldest continually published anarchist newspaper in the world). She has been a performance poet and short story writer. And she has also written for a range of radical, queer, anarchist and bdsm journals, websites and zines.
She is currently studying German and Italian at night school. She lives in London with a companion cat.