Cripping the Queer Legacy – Tammy Reynolds on Katherine Araniello

Tammy Reynolds responds to Katherine Araniello’s performance ‘Pity’ for LGBT+ History Month

Thursday 19 February, 7-8pm

https://www.newhamlgbthistory.org/events/cripping-the-queer-legacy-tammy-reynolds-on-katherine-araniello

Tammy Reynolds presents a new filmed performance for LGBT+ History Month responding to the late Katherine Araniello’s live art performance ‘Pity’, followed by a Q&A with the audience. Includes British Sign Language interpretation and live captions. In association with Regard, the UK’s LGBTQI+ Disabled People’s Organisation (established 1989).

Tammy Reynolds started performing as Midgitte Bardot in Liverpool in 2014. They do drag, live-art, text-based work, sing, make music and take their time. They now live in London. They explore themes of power dynamics, sexuality, exploitation and what it’s like to be a freak of culture through the lens of a queer-crip-dwarf. Currently working and looking to tour their show Shooting From Below, on at Southbank Centre in Spring 2026.

Since then they’ve been awarded a LADA Katherine Araniello Bursary, artsadmin Award, New Queers On The Block Commission, Parallel Perspectives Residency, BAC Bloom Commission, featured in British Vogue, starred in Royal Court’s Sound of the Underground. They regularly host an experimental performance night at Peckham Levels and perform frequently with Duckie, Marlborough Productions, Club Urania, various cabaret spaces across the UK.

Includes British Sign Language interpretation and live captions.