gender anarchy

gender alchemy

gender atv

gender artistry

gender archery

gender arachnid

gender apathy

gender assholery

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BIO

Lou Croff Blake is a trans fashion practitioner, scholar, artist, and community organizer based in Berlin, Germany. Their work integrates queer theory with queer community-building, with the aim of fostering intersectional equity and radical visibility of marginalized genders. In their multidisciplinary body of work, they dissolve the barriers between creative play and critical analysis, choosing fashion and dress practices as a medium for generating collectivist, grassroots solidarity. As an advocate for intersectionality in queer fashion communities, they focus on building bridges to other related movements, such as decolonial fashion, Crip fashion, and sustainable fashion. Reaching towards allies, they also speak and present on topics of queerness, host a ‘Gender Inclusivity Boot Camp,’ and offer consulting services on how to be a more active ally to the queer and trans community.

Photo by Teres Bartunkova

what i do:

transdisciplinary & overlapping activities

⚀ critical fashion practice

⚁ design & illustation

⚂ writing

⚃ workshops & moderation

⚄ curriculum development

⚅ dj bricks: embodiment on the dance floor

✄⚛︎✍︎

work

with

me:

guest speaker, lecturer, moderation

workshops on queering fashion & upcycling

creative & research collaborations

CV:

  • Speculative Upcycling
    Workshop & Lecture
    UDK
    Berlin, Germany, May 2024

    Songs for The Crossing #3
    Performance with Pablo Diserens & Slowfoam
    Transcorporeal Portal Album Release @90mil
    Berlin, Germany, 2024

    Lou Croff Blake Talks Pronouns, Fashion For Every Body and the Language of Belonging Beyond the Gender Binary
    Podcast episode
    WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press
    Online, 2024

    Belonging in Berlin & Beyond: DEIB In Fashion
    Panel Moderation
    202030 Pop-up: Culture & Communication
    Berlin, Germany, 2024

    Naturopathic Somaesthetics
    Workshop with Madelyn Byrd
    ROTA Festival, by AADK
    Blanca, Spain, 2023

    Fluidity & Dynamism: Queer is a Catalyst (And So Can You!)
    Keynote Presentation & Panel “Reality Bites: Perspecives on Diversity”
    Macromedia University
    Online & Berlin, Germany, 2023

    Queer Needlework Circle & The Incidental Quilt
    Workshop & Commmunity Project with Theodoor Adriaans
    De-Fashioning Education Conference
    Berlin, Germany, 2023

    Songs for The Crossing #2
    Performance with Slowfoam
    The Lodge
    Naches, WA, 2023

    Queering Fashion
    Workshop via Daisie
    Online, 2023

    Songs for The Crossing #1
    Performance with Pablo Diserens
    Gravity Pleasure @ KWIA
    Berlin, Germany, 2023

    Esoteric Bimbo
    Patchworkshop & Discussion
    It’s All About Education
    Berlin, Germany, 2022

    The Rolodex of Radical Design
    Presentation, Panel Member on “Transforming Narratives”
    Ways of Caring – Practicing Solidarity
    ArtEZ University of the Arts
    Arnhem, Netherlands, 2022

  • A Queer Fashion Autoethnography
    APRIA: Practicing Solidarity Editorial
    NE, May 2024

    Flagging Chimera, Excavating Queer Folklores: Three outfits by Lou Croff Blake
    Just Femme & Dandy 06: The Timetravel Issue
    Winter 2024

    Trans Unraveling Ritual
    Essay in SOFTEIS3: Loss
    October 2023

    Hisako Nakaya Apparel Design Endowed Scholarship
    Seattle Central College, 2019

    International News-Mike Alesko Apparel Design Endowed Scholarship
    Seattle Central College, 2018

    Grant for Artist Projects: “Deck Out”
    Artist Trust, Seattle, USA, 2017

    Graduate Artist Studio Residency: HALLE 14
    Leipzig, Germany
    Awarded by the University of Puget Sound, 2013

  • SQUID INC
    Collaboration with Madelyn Byrd
    2020-Present

    Queer Handmade Market
    Co-organizer, panel moderation
    Berlin, Germany, 2023

    Queer Needlework Circle
    Co-facillitator, Practitioner
    Berlin, Germany, 2023

    The Hologram
    Facillitator, Practitioner
    Online & Berlin, Germany, 2021-present

    MOLD Collective
    Co-founder
    Berlin, Germany, 2020-present

    TUF Collective
    Collective member, workshop facillitator
    Seattle, USA, 2015-2020

    Lion’s Main Art Collective
    Collective member
    Seattle, USA, 2013-2017

  • Design Academy Trainer
    VORN – The Berlin Fashion Hub
    2022-Present

    DEIB Trainer
    studioMM04
    Berlin, Germany, 2021-present

    Researcher & Educator: Positive impact fashion design
    The Beneficial Design Institute
    Berlin, Germany, 2022-present

    Lecturer, Curriculum Development, E-learning Production
    Akademie Mode & Design
    Berlin, Germany, 2022-present

    Program Management & Coordinator
    202030 – The Berlin Fashion Summit
    Berlin, Germany, 2022-present

    Apparel Design Tutor
    School of Apparel Design & Development
    Seattle, USA, 2019-2020

    Studio Intern
    Cilium
    New York, USA, 2019

    Studio Assistant & Copywriter
    MOO-YOUNG
    Seattle, USA, 2017-2019

    Design Center Associate
    Blick Art Materials
    Seattle, USA, 2013-2017

  • Certification: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Trainer
    BAMIK
    Berlin, Germany, 2024


    M.A. Sustainability in Creative Industries
    Akademie Mode & Design
    Berlin, Germany, 2022


    A.A.S. School of Apparel Design & Development
    Seattle Central College
    Seattle, USA, 2020


    B. A. Studio Art: Painting, Minor in French Language
    University of Puget Sound
    Tacoma, WA, 2013