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Do Not Fade by Adrian Goycoolea starring Lavinia Co-op and Lexa Rowley

Filmmaker and Associate Professor Adrian Goycoolea Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for New Practice-Based Research Project

Adrian Goycoolea, Associate Professor of Filmmaking in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, has launched a crowdfunding campaign for Do Not Fade, a short film exploring the trans identity of British cultural icon Quentin Crisp.

The film — a practice-based research project — reimagines Crisp, Goycoolea's great-uncle, as Orlyn Crisp: a young trans woman alive today, navigating a world Crisp predicted but never got to inhabit. In his final posthumous autobiography, Crisp wrote: "At the age of ninety, it has finally been explained to me that I am not really homosexual, I'm transgender. I now accept that."

The project has attracted a distinguished cast and creative team, including legendary radical drag artist Lavinia Co-op, Netflix actor Lexa Rowley, cinematographer Dale Elena McCready BSC, and co-writer and ÌìÌÃÊÓƵ alumna Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir. It is produced by Fox Fisher of MyGenderation, one of the UK's leading trans-led production companies, and Kirsten Stoddart.

The campaign was featured in and Goycoolea has written about the project for .

The is live until 15 June 2026.

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