ABIGAIL JACQUELINE JONES

is an autistic, transfemme multidisciplinary artist, performer, writer, zine publisher, sexual freedom advocate, and academic researcher. Her work explores marginalised approaches to unconventional sexualities and queer ontologies, and the transgressive potential of the divergent erotic imagination.

Engaged in neuroqueer and radical forms of artistic production and academic investigation, Abigail’s practice twins experimental performance and visual art production with queer, community-centred (auto)ethnographic archival, curatorial, and interpretative practices, critical sexuality research, and DIY publications issued by her own micropress imprint The 50-ft Press. Informed by her personal experiences of shame and trauma surrounding transgender identity, neurodivergence, and divergent approaches to queer embodiment, identity, and the erotic, Abigail’s creative research practice seeks to dramatically expand our collective understanding of, destigmatise, and affirm the radical liberatory potential of, unconventional sexualities and divergent queer ontologies. Abigail's current body of work principally explores ways in which queer, gender-marginalised, disabled, and neurodivergent folks deploy unconventional queer embodiments, affinities, kinks, fantasies, and fandoms as emotional, psychological, and somatic processing tools, in order to forge communities with each other, explore 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 has been supported at various stages in its development by the Bishopsgate Institute, the University of Toronto’s Sexual Representation Archive, Shape Arts, BALTIC Gateshead, and Arts Council England, and has been championed by prominent artists and sexuality activists including Annie Sprinkle. Individual project collaborators have included kink anthropologist, curator, and former artist publisher Katharine Gates, whose work has previously been platformed by HBO’s Real Sex, New York City’s Museum of Sex, and Yale University, amongst many others — and whose ethnographic explorations of divergent kink communities, documented within her ground-breaking book Deviant Desires: A Tour of the Erotic Edge, Abigail’s work explicitly builds upon.

The Giantess Speaks is an (auto)ethnographic investigation of what has become known in recent years as the “size community” — “size” itself being an wide-ranging umbrella term for a variety of kinks, fandoms, affinities, and fantasies, which can be sexual, romantic, platonic, or simply aesthetic in character, centred around human, anthropormorphic, and even metaphysical bodies of superhuman scale. Since early 2024, Abigail has interviewed over 60 members of the size community, and amassed a vast collection of art, literature, and other ephemera exploring and detailing the lives, experiences, and fantasies of queer, gender-marginalised, disabled, and neurodivergent members of the size community. Over the course of 2026, and into early 2027, Abigail will be archiving her research collections with both the Bishopsgate Institute in London, and the University of Toronto in Canada, and hosting a series of exhibitions, panel talks, community events, and art performances on both sides of the Atlantic surrounding the accession of these collections. She will also be developing her debut full-length solo theatre show — under the working title Naked On Manhattan — over the course of this period.

Since 2022, Abigail has produced and distributed zines, pamphlets, and poster prints, produced with the help of her very own risograph duplicator, at markets, fairs, and festivals across the UK, including Glasgow Zine Fest, Tate Britain’s Queer & Now, Grrrl Zine Fair, and Margate Zine Fair. Select zines of Abigail’s have been archived by the Wellcome Collection Library and the University of Lincoln, and will be archived by the Bishopsgate Institute and the University of Toronto as part of larger accessions of materials related to The Giantess Speaks. Following the launch of her bi-monthly subscriber-only mail-out zine series, The 50-ft Mail-Out, in August 2025, in 2026 Abigail will be embarking on a major expansion of her risograph printing and micro-publishing operations, under the name The Fifty-Foot Press.

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, somatic, and ontological processing tool for marginalised queer, gender-marginalised 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 over 60 interviews and counting with members of the size community to inform her academic research, and her creative process. Recordings and transcripts from these interviews will be archived by both the Bishopsgate Institute and the University of Toronto’s Sexual Representation archive in mid-2026. Over this same period, outcomes from Abigail’s academic and archival work will also help inform the creation of her debut one-woman show, Naked on Manhattan, which will be devised and developed over the course of late 2026/early 2027.

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

Appearing throughout The Giantess Speaks’ performative outputs, 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 classic 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.

Research Conversations

Live Art & Performances

THE 50-FT MAIL-OUT

A Newsletter by Abigail Jacqueline Jones

The 50-ft Mail-Out is Abigail’s physical, riso-printed, ink-on-paper mail-out. Since August 2025 onwards, a new edition has been posted out to subscribers every two months, featuring updates from Abigail’s artistic and academic practices, short essays and works of flash-fiction, community submissions, and whatever the hell else she wants to slap in it and send out. She’s bringing back that DIY, desktop-published zine culture, baby. And in zine-world, anything freaking goes!

You can subscribe to The 50-ft Mail-Out via Abigail’s Ko-fi page. The lower subscription tier, Attack of the 50-ft Mail-Out! — priced at £7 per month — gets you signed up to the mail-out’s mailing list. By subscribing to the higher tier, Attack of the 50-ft Zine Club! — priced at £12.50 per month — you will also receive two handmade sketchbooks and two additional riso-printed zines created by Abigail each year, as well as discounts off her online shop.

All Ko-fi donations and subscriptions are put back into helping support Abigail’s artistic and academic practices. If you don’t want to subscribe monthly, individual tips and donations are always welcome!

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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, Abigail has been producing zines, pamphlets, and poster prints for sale and distribution at zine fairs and independent art markets across the UK since 2022. Abigail has previously tabled at Glasgow Zine Fest (Glasgow CCA, 2023), Queer & Now (Tate Britain, 2023), and Wellcome Zine Takeover (Wellcome Collection, 2023), alongside making appearances at indie zine fairs in Margate, Norwich, Leeds, and London. Abigail’s zines can also be found within the special collections of the Wellcome Collection and the University of Lincoln libraries; as part of a wider accession of materials related to The Giantess Speaks, a selection of Abigail’s zines will be archived by the Bishopsgate Institute and the University of Toronto in 2026.

In 2026, Abigail will be embarking on a major expansion of her risograph printing and DIY publishing endeavours. In late 2026, The Fifty-Foot Press will be publishing Volume 1 of A Great Knight, a graphic novel by transfemme artist and illustrator “LoveThruPoke”, with further volumes to be issued in the future. In June 2026, the Press will also be printing and publishing Bug In A Cage: Five Essays + A Comedy Sketch on the Philosophy of Size Kink, an anthology of essays and writings by kink philosopher and fiction author “Quinn” exploring the cultures of niche kink communities through a critical queer and feminist lens, and a magazine and events calendar assembled in collaboration with The Queer Love Co. — a queer matchmaking organisation based in south-east London that regularly hosts community social events, and which connects other queer event producers and curators across London together through their offshoot Fruit Salad Events Collective.

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

UPCOMING RELEASES

A GREAT KNIGHT

Robin desperately wants to follow in her mother’s footsteps. But hers are some mighty and extraordinarily daunting shoes to fill. For Robin is the daughter of a Great Knight — the giant knightesses who fight to protect her world from all manner of threats, from fearsome fire-breathing dragons to invading legions sent from foreign lands. Legend has it that such gallant giant daughters can only be born from royal bloodlines like Robin’s own, but young Robin is fast approaching adolescence, yet still she appears incapable of growing into the role Fate supposedly chose for her. Literally or figuratively...

Follow Ser Robin on her extraordinary adventure through this world of chivalry, cruelty, and tender, courageous heart, as she embarks on her quest to become the Great Knight she was always destined to be.

A Great Knight is the debut graphic novel by transfemme artist and illustrator “LoveThruPoke”. The Fifty-Foot Press is currently raising funds to produce and print physical copies of the first volume of the novel, with an aim to release in early 2027. The prints displayed on the left were printed in April 2026, and originally sold at the Sticky Fingers Publishing Fair; these prints are available to purchase here.

BUG IN A CAGE: FIVE ESSAYS + A COMEDY SKETCH ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF SIZE KINK

“[IN MY OPINION], SIZE IS A KINK, A FANDOM, AN AESTHETIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH, AND… A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH TO EXPERIENCING ONE’S OWN BODY AND THE BODIES OF OTHERS, WHICH CAN BE SEXUAL, ROMANTIC, PLATONIC, OR SIMPLY AESTHETIC IN CHARACTER. [SIZE IS] ALSO AN ONTOLOGICAL APPROACH, A WAY OF BEING-IN-THE-WORLD, OF MAKING, DOING, AND LOVING.”

— quinn. posted on didi star’s discord server, 25/11/25

In early 2025, erotic size-kink fiction author and proud non-binary giant “Quinn” began penning a series of essays critically examining size kink through queer and feminist theoretical lenses. Originally published to their WordPress blog bug in a cage, these essays instantly caused a sensation within the size community.

Quinn’s essays have given a persuasive argumentative voice to the opinions and perspectives of marginalised size community members whose approaches to identity, embodiment, fantasy, and erotic desire do not align with common stereotypes associated with “macrophiles” or “giantess fetishists”, as we are often dismissively referred to by outsiders: cisgender, heterosexual men who are solely attracted to conventionally attractive giant women whose sexual agency they consistently deny. Due to be published in June 2026, Bug In A Cage: Five Essays + A Comedy Sketch on the Philosophy of Size Kink will compile Quinn’s essays in a single print volume; they will be accompanied by a short comedy sketch satirising size-kink stereotypes the author penned in 2023, and a foreword by Abigail.

The image on the right is a pre-print mock-up of the cover design for Bug In A Cage: Five Essays + A Comedy Sketch on the Philosophy of Size Kink, composed of a frontispiece design the author originally produced for their September 2025 essay WRONG WAY, which Abigail has edited, and to which she has added text.

GALLERY

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.