As part of an essay I have written entitled Queer Skin Does, Red Chidgey took a series of photographs of me that explore, with loving regard, the multiple terrains of queer skin that are stratified upon my body. We hope they will be included alongside the article when it is published.

The paper explores how the body of the eczema sufferer can be used as an ontological weapon in the service of unbounded subjectivity, the interrelation of queer, race & disability within optic regimes and how the constantly multiplying and depositing skin of the eczema sufferer can be used to explore ideas about touch and relationality. It extends my interest in embodiment and subjectivity within critical writing.  

As a life-long eczema sufferer, these photographs hold a visible space between intimacy and continuous embodied pain whilst offering an important contribution to representations of queer bodies within photography.