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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 Sussex 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 The Telegraph and Goycoolea has written about the project for DIVA Magazine.

The crowdfunding campaign is live until 15 June 2026.

Further information: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/do-not-fade

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