So, lacking Jimmy to give any clue (other than the obvious) as to why he wrote Smalltown Boy, we are instead given a contemporary scene inside Gay The Word’s bookshop, with a woman, probably born around 2000, saying she could connect with the song because she once left home (probably ‘escaping’ to university to be a blue hair) and stood on a train platform with a suitcase. Seriously.
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Review: ‘Trans is Human’ exhibition
My review of the ‘Trans is Human’ exhibition, held at Queer Britain (the nation’s LGBTQ+ museum) which is just near Google’s HQ, if you want an idea of the rents involved.
Photographs by Mariano Vivanco (fashion photographer) and curated by Jake and Hannah Graf (straight trans couple of red top fame).
Documentary review: Beyond The Aggressives: 25 Years Later
Despite Peddle’s flex that the progressiveness of gender identity ideology (aka queer theory) liberated these women, they are just older and a little bit wiser. Less angry. Time has worked its natural effect, basically. Obviously Chin Tsui has fared worst, since, as a direct result of trans activism’s impact on detention policy, she experienced 18 months of unnecessary solitary confinement. These women, born with the deficits of poverty plus childhood trauma, ran head first into queer theory when they came out. ‘Beyond aggressive’ they might be, but they’re still chasing their own tails.
A talk with Sarah Jane Baker
‘I kidnapped and tortured somebody and got seven years for that and whilst in prison I tried to murder somebody, who hurt me,’ Baker admitted. We all nodded empathetically, as if we understood. Baker said he deserved every single day of the time he served for those crimes and that the victims hadn’t deserved it. It was his borderline personality disorder which had gotten in the way of him being able to apply ethics or any sense of morality to the actions he had taken.
UNSAFE: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash
Another epiphany. The self-righteousness of the left. You know the left is really up its own arse when radical trans activist abolitionist non-binary academics can even see it. Fuck me.
Trans Symposium at Birkbeck – ‘Existing Otherwise’
As regular tweeps know, we never shy away, having said that, even we couldn’t help being a bit rabbits-in-headlights when facing down the agenda for the Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence ‘Existing Otherwise’, published on Bluesky.
Items were as follows:
a Meditation titled “We Are Here.”
a Creative Collage Workshop, titled “Remapping Masculinity.”
a collaborative dreaming matrix lecture, titled “‘The pink octopus beckons me’: trans social dreaming.”
a session titled “Acknowledging realities, and imagining alternatives: What does a good life look like to you?”
an echo paper titled “Reclaiming the Monster: Transgender Horror and Individual Legibility” …. [cont.]
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