Maz Hedgehog

(they/them)

Writer and performer in poetry and theatre

The quickest way to describe me would be “storyteller”. Whether I am writing poetry collections, plays and essays, editing anthologies, performing on stage or screen, speaking on panels, leading workshops or knitting on my sofa, I am interested in stories.

Everything I do is an attempt to weave together narratives, to make sense of the world around me. Within this, I’m interested in power, agency and community. My work investigates the ways these overlap, intersect and contradict. I aim to tell stories about people who are not often seen in the tales that are told and retold.

My body, my rules: the body image conversation is getting queer

by Catriona Innes, Lois Shearing and photography by Vic Lentaigne

for Cosmpolitan UK

“I like the word ‘fat’ because it is a very simple descriptor of my body and importantly, it connects me to the fat liberation movement. I use the word dyke for similar reasons, because this thing that you fear, this thing that society says you should run from: I am that. I am a fat, Black, dyke. And if that’s the worst thing you can say about me, then I am winning.”