Jaimes Mayhew doesn’t make “maps.” They make portals.

In this short interview from IMMORTAL, Mayhew talks about queer and trans mapping as something way more alive than coordinates and gridlines: a practice built from trust, workshops, inside jokes, conflict, tenderness, and the radical act of imagining together. Their maps don’t say “you are here.” They say: we could be elsewhere—if we build it.

Mayhew’s whole method is collective: start with a room full of people asking deceptively simple questions—What do we need? What do we desire? Who belongs?—then distill those answers into landscapes that refuse perfection. Because perfection is usually just the old world wearing a new wig.

The big idea: utopia isn’t a destination. It’s a rehearsal. A group practice. A messy draft you revise with others. Over and over.

Want the full deep-dive? The longer-format interview is live as:

• TBQA Podcast (full conversation)

• TBQA Substack (written feature + video interview)

This is queer futurity with glue sticks, scissors, and guts.

TBQA / The Bureau of Queer Art
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