We just lost a great one. JD Derbyshire brought their fulsome, fearless, fabulous talents to Wordfest not once, but twice, in 2024. (We were so besotted with their performance at A Celebration of Trans Storytelling that we had to invite them back for the Imaginairium, during which they won Literary Death Match!) Please listen to JD reading from Mercy Gene: The Man-made Making of a Mad Woman, a lasting echo of their many, many gifs.

Let’s just say…. “Without speaking, candles were solemnly lit, honouring something that was gone and would never be back.” And, yes, to echo JD,  the hue is hope.