In conversation: Petra Lord and Juno Dawson
Juno Dawson sounded like he was sucking on a secret supply of helium. The blurby bit The room Not particularly a trans crowd, I have to say, but it was a nerdy bunch. Quite a good turnout. Mostly adults. Juno Dawson, who sounded like he was sucking on a secret supply of helium, described himself…
Are you kink curious?
Kink play is an ’emotionally rich’ but ‘confusing terrain’ to be in. This was due to ‘social taboo’, of course, rather than normal psychological responses we experience in response to danger. For example, when engaging in ‘blood play’ and other types of dangerous BDSM, we needed to think ‘about our triggers’ and ‘how to keep…
Trans book fest
Pechey introduced himself as a they/them, describing himself as having ‘strawberry blonde hair,’ when we could all see he’s bleached blonde. Despite being an ‘award winning author, presenter, educator,’ the hand wringing began immediately. Things were so awful right now, Pechey was so very thankful that the other panel members had managed to roll out…
Keynote panel talk at the Barbican’s ‘Dirty Weekend’ takeover
One panel member had been scared off being her real self due to the conservative push back, affecting how she ‘showed up online’ and had been forced to take twelve months out to do an art residency so that she could regain her confidence. She wanted now to make pieces (dildos?, I really don’t know)…
Review: TESTO by Wet Mess
Interestingly, the blurb published for TESTO obscures the fact that the show is about the trans-identified female experience of taking exogenous testosterone. Now why would the Southbank want to do that? At least it had an age-guidance of 18+ though.
Meet the artist who documented her bilateral mastectomy
Garrod interjected to state that even though Top is essentially an information display, it didn’t feel cold, the artist didn’t feel absent, that you did feel the emotions and that Bowler had imbued inanimate body parts with meaning, i.e. about as arse-about-face as he could’ve got. Bowler responded that archives weren’t dead spaces, they were…
Review: Transpose Pit Party – Subverse
This is the most grown up Transpose Pit Party yet. The last one, held in 2023, was so dire as the curator and director, Dani Dinger, looked and acted not unlike the love child of Sid Snot and Thumbelina and I swore never to go again. So, now Transpose is back after a two year…
More history revision with a trans activist …
‘I like to think of myself as a historian and I don’t feel like I’m doing history,’ Brandy told us, which turned out to be the truest thing she said. What she meant though, was that history of was repeating itself, ergo the West was repeating what happened in Germany in the 1930s all over…
Review: Little M
A story for our age; a non-binary mermaid. Held during annual *Genderfluid Visibility Week. *Not a joke. The blurby bit About the creator Background Typically Pink News gave Little M a puff piece, heavily quoting praises for it. Gendered Intelligence, FEAST and Yorkshire Dance have sponsored the work. Of the four performances held at The…
Film Review: Afterlives
Normally I only write about the transgender issue, but in the case of Afterlives I’ve had to make an exception, because, although it might have its heart in the right place, its head in so many wrong places, it’s mind blowing.
On a positive note, director Kevin B. Lee, chose an interesting aesthetic for the…
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