Chardine Taylor-Stone is a British feminist activist, writer and musician.[1] In December 2015 Taylor-Stone founded Stop Rainbow Racism to campaign against the performance of ‘Blackface’ at LGBTQ+ Venues.[2][3] The campaign began in response to a performance by Drag queen Charlie Hides at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Taylor-Stone was the drummer for the band Big Joanie, started in 2013.[4] On 5 October 2023, the band announced that Taylor-Stone had left, replaced by an interim drummer for their European tour that month.[5]
Early life and education
Taylor-Stone was born in London and is from a working-class background.[6] She was raised in Kettering where at age 17 she first became politically active in the Stop The War Coalition.[7] She studied a BA Arts and Humanities and Masters in Laws (LLM) at Birkbeck, University of London.[8][9]
Career
In 2015 Taylor-Stone organised an intergenerational one-day conference ‘Black British Feminism: Past, Present and Futures’ at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton with Black feminist and friend of Olive Morris, Liz Obi .[10][11] In 2016 she co-founded Black Girls Picnic with cultural activist Kayza Rose.[12] In 2017 Taylor-Stone won the British LGBT Award for Contribution to LGBT+ life for the Stop Rainbow Racism campaign.[13] In 2021 she returned the award in protest at the award’s sponsorship of MI5 and MI6.[14]
Opoku-Gyimah, Phyll; Beadle-Blair, Rikki; Gordon, John R. (2018). Sista! : an anthology of writing by and about Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean descent with a UK connection. London. ISBN978-0-9955162-4-3. OCLC1006298766.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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