Chardine Taylor-Stone is a British feminist activist, writer and musician. In December 2015 Taylor-Stone founded Stop Rainbow Racism to campaign against the performance of ‘Black face’ at LGBTQ+ Venues. The campaign began in response to a performance by Drag queen

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at The

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. Taylor-Stone was the drummer for the band Big Joanie, started in 2013. On 5 October 2023, the band announced that Taylor-Stone had left, replaced by an interim drummer for their European tour that month.

Early life and education

Taylor-Stone was born in London and is from a working-class background. She was raised in

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where at age 17 she first became politically active in the

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. She studied a BA Arts and Humanities and Masters in Laws (LLM) at Birkbeck, University of London.

Career

In 2015 Taylor-Stone organised an intergenerational one-day conference ‘Black British Feminism: Past, Present and Futures’ at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton with Black feminist and friend of Olive Morris,

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. In 2016 she co-founded Black Girls Picnic with cultural activist Kayza Rose. In 2017 Taylor-Stone won the British LGBT Award for Contribution to LGBT+ life for the Stop Rainbow Racism campaign. In 2021 she returned the award in protest at the award’s sponsorship of MI5 and MI6 Taylor-Stone has written and spoken about Black British Feminism, racism in LGBT Communities, British working-class life, Afrofuturism, music and socialism. In 2022 Big Joanie were nominated for Best Alternative Act at the

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Awards and recognition

· British LGBT Award for Contribution to LGBT+ life (2017) ·

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's Women Who Rocked the World (2015) · The Most Inspiring British LGBT People Of 2016 · Pride Power List 2018 · Pride Power List 2019

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References

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