Bert E. Cook (they/them) is a Texas-born weirdo searching for queer utopia. Their art uses soft sculpture, performance, and zines to dissect gender expectations and explore intimacy. While dealing with serious topics, like our complicated relationship with the body, there is also humor and love – capturing queer joy as an act of resistance. Bert uses their work as an act of space making and visibility for those existing outside of the cis/heteronormative sphere. They hope to use community and whimsy to suspend the idea of the impossible and instead forge ahead to a beautiful, queer future.