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”’Chardine Taylor-Stone”’ is a British feminist activist, writer and musician.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Punk gave me confidence as a young Black woman to break the mould |url=https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/blog/2016/06/punk-gave-me-confidence-as-a-young-black-woman-to-break-the-mould/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Roundhouse |language=en}}</ref> In December 2015 Taylor-Stone founded Stop Rainbow Racism to campaign against the performance of ‘[[Blackface]]’ at LGBTQ+ Venues.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCormick |first=Joseph Patrick |date=14 December 2015 |title=Cabaret act accused of ‘blackface’ retires from performing at London venue |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2015/12/14/blackface-drag-act-dropped-from-royal-vauxhall-tavern/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=PinkNews }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=SoNAdmin |date=12 December 2015 |title=Racism in the Rainbow |url=https://shadesofnoir.org.uk/racism-in-the-rainbow/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Shades Of Noir |language=en-GB}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 August 2020 |title=One to watch: Big Joanie |url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/29/one-to-watch-big-joanie |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref> On 5 October 2023, the band announced that Taylor-Stone had left, replaced by an interim drummer for their European tour that month.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kelly |first=Tyler Damara |date=5 October 2023 |title=Big Joanie announce departure of founding drummer, Chardine Taylor-Stone |work=[[The Line of Best Fit]] |url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/big-joanie-announce-departure-of-founding-drummer-chardine-taylor-stone |access-date=2023-10-22}}</ref>

”’Chardine Taylor-Stone”’ is a British feminist activist, writer and musician.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Punk gave me confidence as a young Black woman to break the mould |url=https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/blog/2016/06/punk-gave-me-confidence-as-a-young-black-woman-to-break-the-mould/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Roundhouse |language=en}}</ref> In December 2015 Taylor-Stone founded Stop Rainbow Racism to campaign against the performance of ‘[[Blackface]]’ at LGBTQ+ Venues.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCormick |first=Joseph Patrick |date=14 December 2015 |title=Cabaret act accused of ‘blackface’ retires from performing at London venue |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2015/12/14/blackface-drag-act-dropped-from-royal-vauxhall-tavern/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=PinkNews }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=SoNAdmin |date=12 December 2015 |title=Racism in the Rainbow |url=https://shadesofnoir.org.uk/racism-in-the-rainbow/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Shades Of Noir |language=en-GB}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 August 2020 |title=One to watch: Big Joanie |url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/29/one-to-watch-big-joanie |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref> On 5 October 2023, the band announced that Taylor-Stone had left, replaced by an interim drummer for their European tour that month.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kelly |first=Tyler Damara |date=5 October 2023 |title=Big Joanie announce departure of founding drummer, Chardine Taylor-Stone |work=[[The Line of Best Fit]] |url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/big-joanie-announce-departure-of-founding-drummer-chardine-taylor-stone |access-date=2023-10-22}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==

== Early life and education ==

Taylor-Stone was born in London and is from a working-class background.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dazed |date=6 May 2022 |title=Big Joanie: ‘It’s tougher than ever to be a working-class musician’ |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/56044/1/big-joanie-s-chardine-taylor-stone-on-being-a-working-class-musician |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Dazed |language=en}}</ref> She was raised in [[Kettering]] where at age 17 she first became politically active in the [[Stop the War Coalition]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Interview with Momentum NCG candidates: London |url=http://newsocialist.org.uk/interview-momentum-ncg-candidates-london/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=New Socialist |language=en}}</ref> She studied a BA Arts and Humanities and Masters in Laws (LLM) at [[Birkbeck, University of London]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Diversified |first=AuthorMedia |date=2 January 2014 |title=Where are the Black Women in Science Fiction? |url=https://mediadiversified.org/2014/01/02/chardine-taylor-stone-is-searching-for-black-female-experiences-in-speculative-fiction/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Media Diversified |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=IVC |date=29 July 2022 |title=Independent Venue Week start 10th anniversary preparations with Independents Day 2022 |url=https://independentvenuecommunity.com/2022/07/29/independent-venue-week-start-10th-anniversary-preparations-with-independents-day-2022/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Independent Venue Community |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Taylor-Stone was born in London and is from a working-class background.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dazed |date=6 May 2022 |title=Big Joanie: ‘It’s tougher than ever to be a working-class musician’ |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/56044/1/big-joanie-s-chardine-taylor-stone-on-being-a-working-class-musician |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Dazed |language=en}}</ref> She was raised in [[Kettering]] where at age 17 she first became politically active in the [[Stop the War Coalition]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Interview with Momentum NCG candidates: London |url=http://newsocialist.org.uk/interview-momentum-ncg-candidates-london/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=New Socialist |language=en}}</ref> She studied a BA Arts and Humanities and Masters in Laws (LLM) at [[Birkbeck, University of London]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Diversified |first=AuthorMedia |date=2 January 2014 |title=Where are the Black Women in Science Fiction? |url=https://mediadiversified.org/2014/01/02/chardine-taylor-stone-is-searching-for-black-female-experiences-in-speculative-fiction/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Media Diversified |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=IVC |date=29 July 2022 |title=Independent Venue Week start 10th anniversary preparations with Independents Day 2022 |url=https://independentvenuecommunity.com/2022/07/29/independent-venue-week-start-10th-anniversary-preparations-with-independents-day-2022/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Independent Venue Community |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Career ==

== Career ==

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Black British Feminist activist

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] She is currently writing music and performing with Boarder Widow along with Hatty Carman.[6]

Early life and education

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Taylor-Stone was born in London and is from a working-class background.[7] She was raised in Kettering where at age 17 she first became politically active in the Stop the War Coalition.[8] She studied a BA Arts and Humanities and Masters in Laws (LLM) at Birkbeck, University of London.[9][10]

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 .[11][12] In 2016 she co-founded Black Girls Picnic with cultural activist Kayza Rose.[13] In 2017 Taylor-Stone won the British LGBT Award for Contribution to LGBT+ life for the Stop Rainbow Racism campaign.[14] In 2021 she returned the award in protest at the award’s sponsorship of MI5 and MI6.[15]

Taylor-Stone has written and spoken about Black British Feminism,[16] racism in LGBT Communities,[17] British working-class life,[18] Afrofuturism,[19] music[20][21] and socialism.[22][23] In 2022 Big Joanie were nominated for Best Alternative Act at the MOBO Awards.[24]

Awards and recognition

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·       British LGBT Award for Contribution to LGBT+ life (2017)[14]

·       The Voice Newspaper‘s Women Who Rocked the World (2015)[citation needed]

·       The Most Inspiring British LGBT People Of 2016[25]

·       Pride Power List 2018[26]

·       Pride Power List 2019[27]

  • 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. ISBN 978-0-9955162-4-3. OCLC 1006298766.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  1. ^ “Punk gave me confidence as a young Black woman to break the mould”. Roundhouse. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  2. ^ McCormick, Joseph Patrick (14 December 2015). “Cabaret act accused of ‘blackface’ retires from performing at London venue”. PinkNews. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  3. ^ SoNAdmin (12 December 2015). “Racism in the Rainbow”. Shades Of Noir. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  4. ^ “One to watch: Big Joanie”. The Guardian. 29 August 2020. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  5. ^ Kelly, Tyler Damara (5 October 2023). “Big Joanie announce departure of founding drummer, Chardine Taylor-Stone”. The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 2023-10-22.
  6. ^ “Instagram”. www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
  7. ^ Dazed (6 May 2022). “Big Joanie: ‘It’s tougher than ever to be a working-class musician’“. Dazed. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  8. ^ “Interview with Momentum NCG candidates: London”. New Socialist. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  9. ^ Diversified, AuthorMedia (2 January 2014). “Where are the Black Women in Science Fiction?”. Media Diversified. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  10. ^ IVC (29 July 2022). “Independent Venue Week start 10th anniversary preparations with Independents Day 2022”. Independent Venue Community. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  11. ^ “14 March 2015 12:00 ~ Black British Feminism: Past, Present and Futures – Black Cultural Archives – London | womensgrid – women’s news”. www.womensgrid.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  12. ^ Diversified, AuthorMedia (13 March 2015). “I too am Black and a Feminist: On the importance of Black British Feminism”. Media Diversified. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  13. ^ “black girls picnic: a movement in collective self-care”. AFROPUNK. 23 August 2016. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  14. ^ a b “Chardine Taylor-Stone Archives”. British LGBT Awards. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  15. ^ “Big Joanie Is Staying True to Their Queer Punk Ethos”. Them. 4 November 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  16. ^ Campbell, Rosa (28 October 2021). “Black feminisms: a conversation with Stella Dadzie and Chardine Taylor Stone”. History Workshop. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  17. ^ “We Need To Tackle Racism And Misogyny To Move Forward In The LGBT+ Community”. HuffPost UK. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  18. ^ “How Community Organising Could Change The Game For The British Left”. Double Down News. 30 March 2021. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  19. ^ “Afrofuturism: where space, pyramids and politics collide | Chardine Taylor-Stone”. The Guardian. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  20. ^ “Nina Simone Was a Radical”. jacobin.com. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  21. ^ Mahon, Leah (6 December 2022). “The Afro-Punk pioneers who defy stereotypes”. Voice Online. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  22. ^ Dazed (10 July 2018). “Pride has forgotten its truly radical roots”. Dazed. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  23. ^ “England’s Footballers Are Changing the Conversation. It’s Time the Left Caught Up”. Novara Media. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  24. ^ “MOBO Awards introduces new Alternative and Dance/Electronic categories for 2022”. The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  25. ^ Strudwick, Patrick (28 December 2016). “The Most Inspiring British LGBT People Of 2016”. BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  26. ^ “Pride Power List 2018”. Pride Power List. 8 July 2018. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
  27. ^ “Pride Power List 2019”. Pride Power List. 6 July 2019. Retrieved 2024-12-22.

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