About the event

Bi-curious George is back and with a new show! Starting with a panel discussion on non-hetero normative zoology, humour and diversity in biology with George, Jazmeen Isa Qureshi, Connor Butler and Ross Brookes, we then invite you to explore the Museum, visit our bar and chat with our experts about specimens before returning to the lecture theatre for a WIP of George’s new show.

A slow, slimy exploration of trans-masculinity, hormones and being a pest. Celebrate soft bellies, sensuality, rotting and renewal in this drag-comedy that offers queer alternatives for anyone with a body.

Snail Trail is about living in a body that conflicts with the world around you. It’s about revelling in the sticky oozing slimy bits of existence and finding the joy in being repulsive. It’s a manifesto for the pests and the creepy crawlies among us. It’s an invitation to slow down and touch and taste and feel and rub all up against the world, snog with your entire soft body and make sure to leave a shimmery trail everywhere you go.

It’s about building our bodies into homes and repairing the cracks in our armour. It’s about compost and regrowth and vegetables. As this is a Work in Progress performance, we do not quite know what this show is about and you are invited to help find out.

About the cast

Bi-curious George
Once described by Graham Norton as "energetic and charming" and by The Spectator as "a chap, or maybe not a chap", Bi-curious George is an award-winning drag king whose work centres around queer ecology. Using silliness and camp tomfoolery, he aims to shatter the heteronormative lens through which we view the natural world and empower people to reframe their identities and their relationships to ‘nature’.

Jazmeen Isa Qureshi
Jazmeen Isa Qureshi (they/she) is an intersectional writer, activist and storyteller, with nature and conservation at the heart of all her work. She is a trained Marine Biologist and has been featured/published/worked as a researcher for the Gay Times, Birdwatch, BBC Wildlife, Wild Space Productions on Netflix, CBeebies, BBC Natural History Unit / BBC Earth and Sound Off Films.

Being an Ambassador for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Engagement Officer for the youth led organization, A Focus On Nature, has given her space to share her knowledge and connections with nature to a wider audience.

Connor Butler
Connor Butler is an ecologist with a specialisation in invertebrates. He started delivering Queer Ecology nature walks 4 years ago and has had over 1,000 people join his walks so far. Connor has also given Queer Ecology talks to organisations such as WWF, the Mammal Society, and University of Southampton and was previously the Head of Learning at Chelsea Physic Garden, where he still curates an annual Queer Ecology exhibition called A Dash of Lavender. Connor is now self-employed, predominantly delivering invertebrate surveys around London, as well as guided tours and talks.

Ross Brooks
Dr Ross Brooks is a historian who researches and writes about changing concepts and practices relating to sex variations—intersexualities, transformations of sex, and non-heteronormative sexual desires and behaviours—derived from the biological sciences and their impact in Britain through the Edwardian and interwar eras. Ross has been a historian for 20 years and is passionate about LGBTQ+ history, especially as it relates to the pursuit of science in 19th- and 20th-century Britain. His first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science, will be published by Yale University Press in August 2026.

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