In 2025, QUEERCIRCLE will partner with The Love Tank to facilitate the development of a research project, Doing Disability Futures, funded by the British Academy, hosted through the University of Strathclyde.  

This project will use arts-based and speculative methods to engage with global and local histories of colonial violence and ongoing injustices, as well as to tell stories of alternative futures that disrupt existing knowledge and power hierarchies about marginalized communities. 

The Love Tank is a not-for-profit community interest company (CIC) that promotes health & wellbeing of under served communities through education, community building, research, events, and communication + design.

In 2025, QUEERCIRCLE will work with Mad Zines in 2025 to explore the value of the zine format, one that can express ideas and feelings that other art forms can’t.

Mad Zine Research was a Wellcome funded project, hosted at University of Central Lancashire, that aims to craft contention about mental health, turning individual struggles into critical issues for society (and mental health services). 

‘We are interested in the potential of Mad Zines to challenge prevailing psychological, psychiatric and medical understandings, diagnoses and treatments - offering new and evolving repertoires of contention for progressive mental health movements.’

In 2025, QUEERCIRCLE will partner with The Polyphony to develop a series of blogs which explore the relationship of the arts to medicine from a range of queer perspectives. 

The Polyphony is a web platform that aims to stimulate, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. This field of knowledge argues that the arts and humanities have more to offer to healthcare than simply improving medical education, offering radically different ways of thinking about history, culture and experience. 

It is hosted by the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University with financial support from the Wellcome Trust.