ABIGAIL JACQUELINE JONES

is an autistic, transfemme multidisciplinary artist, performer, writer, zine publisher, sexual freedom activist, and independent academic researcher exploring unconventional sexualities and the transgressive potential of the divergent erotic imagination.

Engaged in avant-garde, experimental, neuroqueer and transgressive forms of creative research, engaging with the institutional academic establishment only where absolutely necessary, her practice twins live disciplines — such as cabaret, immersive theatre, and spoken-word — with the creation of DIY self-published chapbooks and zines, as well as with the recording, archiving and dissemination of oral interviews, community autoethnographies, and qualitative critical sexuality research. Informed by personal experiences of shame and trauma surrounding gender identity, neurodivergence, and divergent sexuality, her creative and academic practices seek to dramatically expand our collective understanding of, and destigmatise, the divergent erotic imagination. It seeks to affirm the radical potential of divergent and non-conformist approaches to sexuality and erotic fantasy, and it seeks to explore how queer, transgender, disabled, and neurodivergent individuals use their divergent erotic imaginations as emotional, psychological, and somatic processing tools, in order to reconcile their relationships with their marginalised bodies, identities, and neurotypes, and navigate socially and politically hostile environments..

Abigail is currently embarking upon a long-term creative and academic research project titled The Giantess Speaks. Alongside producing an original body of academic research as a result of this project, described in detail below, The Giantess Speaks will see Abigail produce collections of original writing, live performances, and visual art, as well as curate and programme exhibitions and public events inspired by her work. Entirely self-devised, this project was supported through its initial research and development stages by disability arts company Shape Arts, the BALTIC Gallery, Gateshead, and Arts Council England, and has been championed by prominent artists and sexuality activists including Annie Sprinkle. Furthermore, a small collection of zines documenting research work she has conducted as part of this project have been acquired by the Wellcome Collection, and she is working with the Bishopsgate Institute, and noted American sexual anthropologist and author Katharine Gates — whose ground-breaking book Deviant Desires, and ethnographic explorations of divergent kink communities, her work builds upon — to programme gallery exhibitions, panel talks, live performances, and community events centred around exploring, disseminating, and archiving outcomes from her research.

Over the past two years, Abigail has also begun to sell zines and poster prints produced from her own risograph studio — ‘The Fifty-Foot Press’ — both online and at events across the UK, including Glasgow Zine Fest, Tate Britain’s Queer & Now, Grrrl Zine Fair, and Margate Zine Fair. Alongside selling art prints and zines to raise money for her academic and performance practices, Abigail is able to offer open-access print sessions from her back-garden studio, through which her fellow writers, artists and zine-makers can come to print and publish their own work at an affordable rate.

Artist’s Biography

THE GIANTESS SPEAKS

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Alongside artistic and academic collaborators from both the UK and the United States, Abigail is developing a major self-devised creative research project titled The Giantess Speaks. Encompassing live performance, visual art, critical sexuality and autoethnographic research, as well as archival and curatorial practices, The Giantess Speaks focuses on exploring ways in which the divergent erotic imagination, and divergent forms of erotic creative expression, can serve as an invaluable emotional, psychological, and somatic processing tool for marginalised queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent individuals.

As its name might suggest, The Giantess Speaks explores the experiences, identities, and creative expressions of marginalised members of the “size community” to explore the phenomenon detailed above. “Size” is an inclusive term encompassing various erotic fantasies, sexual and non-sexual alike, involving supernaturally-sized bodies of various genders and sexualities including, but not limited to, Giant(ess)/tiny fantasies, body expansion, and inflation. Underexplored and misunderstood by both academia, whose understanding of "kink” or divergent erotic practices rarely strays from relatively conventional BDSM practices even amongst sexuality researchers, and the cultural mainstream, the size community is an extremely diverse community whose marginalised constituents use size fantasies to — for example — engage in environmental activism, explore their gender identities, and process living with C-PTSD, parental loss, and neurological conditions like Alice-in-Wonderland Syndrome.

Over the past eighteen months, Abigail has conducted around thirty interviews and counting with members of the size community to inform her academic research and her creative process. She has recently begun the process of publishing transcripts from these interviews here, as she prepares them to be archived by the Bishopsgate Institute later in 2025.

Appearing throughout The Giantess Speaks’ creative outputs, whether performative, visual, or literary, is Abigail’s alter-ego “Nancy.” Deriving her name from the 1958 B-movie Attack of the 50-ft Woman, “Nancy” sees Abigail — herself an extremely tall trans woman — reimagine the film’s titular monster, Nancy Archer, as a proudly queer, neurodivergent, rebellious riot-grrrl giantess hellbent on eviscerating all worldly trace of misogyny, queerphobia, ableism, and the utterly insatiable capitalist exploitation of Earth’s vulnerable natural landscapes, creatures and communities. Through the media of live theatre, ritualistic participatory performance art, and experimental fiction, The Giantess Speaks tells the tale of a woman actively attempting to turn herself into an omnipotent giant goddess whose deviant body can fatally disrupt and destroy entire oppressive socio-political systems single-handedly. No longer needing to rely upon the deus-ex-machina of an extraterrestrial encounter to turn her into her oppressors’ worst nightmare, this brand new re-imagining of Nancy is able to mutate her misfit queer body into a sublime, sapphic harbinger of utopian potentialities using nothing but her own scientific genius and pure, irrepressible moxie — and have herself a lot of fun in the process.

“After all, nuclear armageddon ain’t nothin’ but foreplay…”

The Giantess Speaks is intended to be a long-term endeavour, realised across a vast number of connected creative and academic outcomes over the coming few years. These include the collation of an ethnographic archive incorporating research interview extracts and other collected ephemera derived from size community spaces — which the Bishopsgate Institute have agreed to accept into their Kink, Fetish, and Alternative Sexualities archive — as well as a series of panel talks, exhibitions, short performances, and a longer one-woman stage show. It will conclude completely in 2028 with the publication of a book featuring an original piece of long-form fiction, interview extracts, academic essays, and original graphic artworks.

Archival collaboration and support has been provided by kink anthropologist, former arts publisher and museum curator, and author of Deviant Desires: A Tour of the Erotic Edge Katharine Gates, extracts from whose own collections of research materials, zines, erotic art, and correspondences will be exhibited and archived alongside Abigail’s own. Abigail’s work has been championed by renowned performance artist, sex educator, and former sex worker Annie Sprinkle, and two self-published zines documenting her research process have been acquired by the Wellcome Collection Library.

The project significantly expands upon a short story the artist originally wrote and performed live as part of a small solo art exhibition, titled Anguish of the Fifty-Foot Woman, held in August 2021 at the ArtWorks Project Space in Walthamstow, east London. The artist produced and published a zine featuring this short story under her 50-ft Press imprint, which has been accepted into the library collections of the University of Lincoln.

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THE SEVEN-FOOT SLUT

A Newsletter by Abigail Jacqueline Jones

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From July 2025 onwards, Abigail will be sending out fresh editions of her newsletter, The Seven-Foot Slut, every single month. Alongside containing regular updates surrounding her creative research work, information about upcoming performances, and details of fresh new merchandise and creative workshop session drops in her online shop, editions of The Seven-Foot Slut will also feature links to articles and academic materials relevant to Abigail’s own research into niche sexuality and the divergent erotic, and to the global fight for sexual liberation, as well as intimate personal insights into the woman behind the work displayed throughout this website.

You can subscribe to The Seven-Foot Slut for as little as £1 via Abigail’s Ko-fi page, which can be accessed via the link below. All Ko-fi donations and subscriptions are put back into helping support Abigail’s artistic and academic practices.

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LIVE ART

The Giantess Speaks aside, Abigail has embarked upon several smaller-scale, but no less ambitious, performance projects throughout her career. These projects have incorporated a range of different disciplines — immersive live art, site-specific communal performance interventions, theatrical storytelling, cabaret sets and spoken-word — and have encompassed a variety of different subject matters. These have included the medical pathologisation of gender non-conformity; the Social Model of Disability; social antagonism towards male-to-female transition and the socio-sexual hierarchy within historical and contemporary Britain; and the deeply prejudiced attitudes maintained by British conservative elites surrounding race, gender, class, and the nation’s histories of imperialism and subjugation.

Live Art & Exhibitions

Short Stories & Research Archive

the fifty foot press

THE FIFTY-FOOT PRESS

The Fifty-Foot Press is Abigail’s DIY publishing imprint and risograph studio. With the help of a second-hand riso duplicator, since early 2023 she has been producing zines and risograph prints from a small studio in her back garden, which she distributes and sells via an online shop on this very website, and at zine fairs and independent art markets across the UK.

Alongside printing and distributing her own work, Abigail has also produced zines featuring the written work of some of her previous collaborators, and has also facilitated open-access printing sessions on behalf of other artists. If you are interested in printing your own work at her studio, click here for further information.

The Fifty-Foot Press

ILLUSTRATIONS

Every so often, when she isn’t working on a new performance piece, or producing zines or prints on the risograph, Abigail will produce the odd pen-and-ink illustration, digital poster or hand-drawn map. A few such illustrations and posters can be seen in her online shop, and can be viewed in the gallery below.

One such piece — …Not to Mention Napier — was a prize-winner at the 2020 ArtWorks Open, hosted by the Barbican Arts Group Trust. Detailed images of this piece, for which the artist was awarded a cash prize of £500 and the opportunity to curate her own solo exhibition, can be viewed in the banner slideshow above; similarly, an image showing the piece in its entirety can be viewed in the gallery below.

Illustrations and Zines

THE STRANGERS’ GUIDE

is a small series of hand-drawn maps Abigail began producing over the winter lockdown of 2021. The Strangers’ Guide details the street plan of central London from South Kensington to Aldgate and King’s Cross to Kennington, and features over 200 pinpointed landmarks. A timeline of the city’s history and a brief guide to certain local neighbourhoods can be found on the reverse of the folded version of the Guide, available to purchase through Abigail’s online shop. A white-on-black version of the map, giclee printed to A1 scale on archival-quality 300gsm Hahnemühle Pearl paper, can also be purchased from the same store.