Raju Rage is an artist, educator and activist who is proactive about using art, education and activism to forge creative survival. With a theirstory in Queer/Trans/POC self-organised movements and creative projects in London and beyond, their politics and works are grounded in lived experience and collective struggle.
Desperate Livin’:
Coding and Content (Practical Skills) Workshop
Zoyander Street hosts a workshop on coding and content, with support from artist Jennifer Booth. This hands-on session focuses on practical digital skills for community use, including adding, updating and amending website materials, as well as incorporating accessible formats.
In this workshop, participants will learn how to share and build digital skills; centre Trans health, autonomy and community-led knowledge; increase accessibility of the Desperate Livin’ website; and keep the archive socially active and sustainable.
Desperate Livin’ is an interactive digital archive of materials created by and for members of the Trans community, supporting autonomy, health and resilience. The site is open-source and was compiled by Raju Rage and designed by Zoyander Street in 2022.
Please note that this workshop is specifically designed for and by Trans people. Please complete the expression of interest form below. Your attendance will be confirmed on Friday 16 January 2026.
A laptop is needed to participate in this workshop. If you don’t have one, please let us know and we can provide one.
This workshop forms part of Tender Living, supported by Arts Council England and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Zoyander Street is an artist, researcher and critic. Their practice focuses on videogames, but also involves media art and (mis)uses of technology. They work with ‘toxic garbage’, whether recycling old computers destined for landfill or recontextualising trauma in history and ethnography.
Jennifer Booth is a Rotherham-based, working-class, disabled artist whose practice moves between lens, performance, and materially responsive installation to choreograph spaces of care, critique, and encounter. Current work arcs from sound-responsive jelly and 3D-printed moulds developed through a proposed residency with Invisible Flock, where vibration, fragility, and listening become sculptural forces, to the Blue Stocking zine-and-salon project that revives conversational salons as feminist, intergenerational engines for publishing and public making. In parallel, Booth’s R&D deepens a vocabulary of “embodied tactility” — immersive environments of jelly castings, binaural sound, and tactile “skinfollios” — and expands a scan‑to‑cast pipeline that reframes classed and ill bodies with dignity and charge. Across these threads, Booth treats illness, memorial, gender, and class as materials: poured, printed, and performed into forms that are lived-with, held, and collectively authored.
This event is seated and in-person. If you need access to a laptop, have any questions or need assistance, please feel welcome to contact us at +44 (0) 20 7622 1294 or participation@studiovoltaire.org. Read Studio Voltaire's full access information here.
