ABIGAIL JACQUELINE JONES

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

Engaged in neuroqueer and radical forms of creative production and academic investigation, Abigail’s creative research practice twins experimental performance and theatre-making with the creation, archiving and dissemination of oral histories, community (auto)ethnographies, critical sexuality research, and DIY publications issued by her own risograph-based micropress. Informed by personal experiences of shame and trauma surrounding transgender identity, neurodivergence, and divergent sexuality, her combined practices seek to dramatically expand our collective understanding of, and destigmatise, the divergent erotic imagination. Her work affirms the radical potential of divergent and non-conformist approaches to sexuality and erotic fantasy, and it seeks to explore how queer, gender-marginalised, 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 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 over the course of 2026/early 2027. 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 Summer 2026.

“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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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, 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, beginning with the production and publication of a series of short essay anthologies exploring the philosophies and cultures of niche kink communities, and a magazine and events calendar assembled in collaboration with the Fruit Salad Events Collective — a London-based collective of queer event producers.

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.