Raju Rage is proactive about using art, education and activism to forge creative survival. Working transnationally, they explore the spaces and relationships between dis/connected bodies, theory and practice, text and the body and aesthetics and political substance. They have a theirstory in activism, as well as in self- and collectively-organised queer, transgender and people-of-colour movements and creative projects in London and beyond, from which their politics and works draw.
Desperate Livin': Trans Digital Archives
Desperate Livin’ is a web-hosted interactive digital archive of materials created by and for members of the Trans community, supporting autonomy, health and resilience. The website was created by artists Raju Rage and Zoyander Street between 2020 and 2022, as part of the legacy of Desperate Living (2020–2022).
In 2025, Raju Rage and Zoyander Street hosted a series of Trans Digital Archiving events as part of Tender Living (2024–2028). These online and in-person events ensured the continued development of the Desperate Livin’ website through coding, adding content to Open Source websites and connecting with likeminded Trans organisers across the globe. Recent additions to the website include XYZ Projects’ film Dr. XYZ: A Medical Drag Transthology (2024) and a collectively recorded audiobook of Leslie Feinberg’s polemic novel, Stone Butch Blues (1993).
Supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Arts Council England.
Zoyander Street is an artist, researcher, and critic whose practice focuses on video games but also involves other forms of media art and the (mis)uses of technology. They work with 'toxic garbage', whether recycling old computers destined for landfill or recontextualising trauma in history and ethnography.