Someone asked me recently whether fully owning your difference inevitably makes it visible on the outside. In this video I share my answer along with some of my favourite, most ‘me’ outfits.

What happens when the same week someone tells you that you've created a safe space where people feel truly seen, you also put your foot in it so spectacularly that your brain is still replaying the horror movie version three days later?

In this episode of Find Your Freaks, Tonya Kubo sits down with Eli Trier - artist, writer, and self-described “dopamine dealer” - to explore what it means to live as an outsider and how that experience can become the foundation for something powerful.

Life will happen anyway, may as well make it art

This brief foray into the gorgeous/grotesque world of artist and fashion designer Michaela Stark will make you think about beauty in a whole new way.

"She [Zandra Rhodes] only moved into fashion because nobody would hire her, she says, even though she had been the star student of her year at art college."

The creative, innovative magic of Sparks

Ah, masking: that exhausting dance we do to 'pass' - as neurotypical, as straight, as 'normal' (whatever that means). It's draining, but unmasking can feel terrifying. And for those of us who didn't discover our true selves until later in life, it can be hard to know who we are without the mask.

From Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

This is what it feels like to be autistic

A lovely and motivating conversation about Eli Trier’s Autism and ADHD presentations and how they interact. We touch on her amazing art, running a business within the creative space and living her absolute passionate truth. 

Eli Trier shares her journey of starting and growing a business to support her artistic talents. She discusses her experience as a neurodivergent person and how it influences her business.

Neurodivergence and creating a culture of belonging