"I’ve rarely seen a hymn to femmes who are fucked up and failing."
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha
Helicopter Girls
A text-based game about transmisogyny, grief, and transfeminist aesthetics. It’s available to play, alongside its earlier iteration ‘War Music’ on itch.io as Orcsbian. It is inspired by the repeated patterns of social isolation and attack experienced by transfeminine artists, as exemplified in the 2020 Isabel Fall incident. This game is a tribute to the women who have been lost to social and transmisogynistic violence.
In 2023, Helicopter Girls was launched at Stanley Arts Centre in an event which included a free Twine workshop run by Jane.
live performance
shelf/break are currently beginning the process of adapting Helicopter Girls into a live performance suitable for theatre spaces. This will mix live game-play with performance, using lo-fi technologies like Twine to explore transfemininity and u/dys/topian possibilities.