Grace Goslin

Research Topic

Nightlife as Community Care: A Queer History of UK Fundraising Through Nightlife

Supervisor: Sneya Krishnan and Matt Cook 

Grace has spent the last five years working across the media sector as a culture journalist and DJ, gaining writing credits in the likes of: Time Out, VICE, and Stylist. She has actively traversed London's queer scene as an active mainstay and observer of queer culture, she uses her lived nightlife experience to fuel her research of the history of queer nightlife fundraising. Her DJ highlights include playing Secret Garden Party, Boomtown, and Mighty Hoopla as well as gigs across the UK. However, her skills and musical identity were formed by playing nights at iconic London venues Dalston Superstore, and The Glory (which now has a new home as The Divine) and hosting outreach beginners DJ workshops with Pirate Studios. 

in 2024 she was selected to partake in an Arts Council-funded artist residency in South End with Grrrl Zine Fair. Here Grace explored what it means to actively archive a dancefloor. The project 'Archive Your Dancefloor: How do we preserve the histories that we leave behind in club toilets and smoking areas?' was made in response to the opening of Grrrl Zine Fair's physical archive, the first of its kind in the UK. Grace has also just finished a post with the London Archives as their Queer History Events Programmer where she produced, hosted and curated the guest lineup for events at the archive, with topics centring but not limited to discussing: drag king histories, butch and femme aesthetics, queer dancefloor histories, and abolition in the archive.