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Abigail Thorn is currently filming a new role as a trans femme action star, she revealed at the Trans+ History Week community event on a live recording of the QueerAF podcast. The actor, who is known for her roles in the Game Of Thrones (House Of The Dragon, Sharako Lohar) and Star Wars (The Acolyte, Ensign Eurus) universes, said: 

“I can't say what it is, but I am about to start filming a big action thing this summer. I'm having boxing lessons and sword fighting lessons like three times a week and like learning to dive across things.” 

Although there has been a transgender superhero before, notably Dreamer, played by Nicole Maines in the CW series Supergirl - Thorn says this is the first time a trans femme person has been cast as an action star in a production of this kind. 

“I said to the producers when I got it, was like, thank you for giving me this. Because they didn't write it with a trans woman in mind, they just wrote it. And I said to the producers, thank you for giving me this because the idea that a trans woman can be an action star has not yet occurred to anyone outside of this project. And when it does, it's going to blow their minds.”

Check out the full interview with special guest Abigail Thorn and guest host Anthony Lexa out now.

And if you missed last year's interview with Anthony LExa and co-star Felix Mufti, listen back here.

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Do you know who Lynn Conway is? Without her work on the microchip - you wouldn’t be listening to this podcast. Did you know that there are genderqueer ballroom voguing scenes in both India and Wales? How much do you know about the eccentric Reed Erikson, who funded research into dolphin telepathy and pioneering gender-affirming surgeries when no one else would? 

This season on the award-winning QueerAF podcast, we’re back for more of the history lesson we never had - with Trans+ History Week.

Six Trans+ budding audio producers are here with stories from Trans+ history to help us understand the queer world we live in now  - plus how we can march for our future.

Knowledge of our past, is fundamental for our liberation. So we’re back with our trademark stamp, investing in Queer and Trans+ creative talent, buying them equipment to keep forever, supporting them to change the media, and yes - telling you beautiful stories. 

Season 6 of QueerAF, is for the millennia-old history of Trans+ communities all over the world. Look out in your podcast app for a special live recording with Philsophy Tube and House of Dragon’s Abaigial Thorn with Netflix’s Sex Education’s Anthony Lexa May 7th, and the whole series comign out in June, and all the way through Pride season. 

We are QueerAF, and so are you.

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To celebrate 20 years of National Student Pride - in 2025, we were back on stage as a media sponsor, for a special live recording for a panel about disability and healthcare in the queer community. It was particularly special because the last time we covered the topic in this way, it was also at Student Pride - check back for the Access All Rainbows episode in season four for that. 

National Student Pride is an incredible event, and as well as giving QueerAF an incredible launchpad - it's been helping students get graduate jobs, and driving critical conversations in our community, and to mark 20 years of it this year is quite something. 

The panel is hosted by @char_bailey_, with guests:

💜 @iamsteffilynn

💙 @jessicaoutofthecloset

💚 @_ali.bromley

💛 @hausofasad

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