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…
Little Rose
Darren, who I knew a tiny bit from the pub, was always neat, wearing crisp white shirts, tucked into creaseless jeans, hair short back and sides. One day, while saying goodbye, he casually asked if I fancied going out with him. I must have screwed my face up, as he quickly added: “Please, I really…
In conversation: Nathan Lents, author of ‘The Sexual Evolution’
Nathan H. Lents is a professor of biology at the John Jay College of criminal justice in New York. Yes, you read that right. John Jay was set up, according to its website, ‘in the mid-1950s in response to the increased complexity of administering and operating the New York City Police Department and relations between…
Eli Erlick on ‘Before Gender’
Erlick wrote in the book in response to the current attack on trans people, particularly trans youth in the US and UK (which turned out to be a very strong theme of the conversation, surprise, surprise). He chose the stories according to how useful they would be in providing counterpoints to arguments presented by the…
My love for Catholic statues (don’t glaze over just yet).
It came about because I’d gone on a biking holiday to Guatemala, graded easy to moderate, so I thought it’d be a cinch. Peering out of the aeroplane window though, trepidation set in, as the mountains just rolled and rolled and didn’t stop. Everyone else, it turned out, had understood the grading was bullshit and…
Another foray into NHS trans activism
We’re funding this crap. The blurby bit About the event The event was held on the premises of the charity Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, not to be confused with Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). Though, as you can see from the infographic advertising the event, there was buy-in from GSTT NHS…
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