Jay Hulme 

Author

Jay Hulme is an award-winning transgender performance poet from Leicester. In 2015 he won SLAMbassadors, the UK's biggest youth poetry slam, run by Joelle Taylor on behalf of The Poetry Society. He was also a finalist in the 2016 Roundhouse Poetry Slam. He has recently branched out into children’s poetry, and his work was highly commended in the 2018 CLiPPA Awards.

Jay also works as an ambassador for Inclusive Minds, promoting inclusion and diversity in children’s publishing, and doing sensitivity reads to ensure that depictions of trans people in books are both accurate and inoffensive.

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Media

Listen to Trans Activism & Poetry with Jay Hulme as part of the We Can Change The World series on BBC Sounds.

Watch Jay perform ‘I Am A Man’ and ‘My Lungs’ on TEDxTeen.

Books