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…
Nicola Sturgeon: Frankly
Like most people, it wasn’t until Sturgeon was in her thirties that she loosened up and became more comfortable with herself, but unlike most people, Sturgeon believes this marks herself out as different.
Book review: Talk to Me by Munroe Bergdorf
It’s been a big year for Bergdorf, as this Penguin how-to/self-help book, called Talk To Me (how to talk about the things that matter) was published. And there was also the documentary Love & Rage: Munroe Bergdorf. These were released within days of each other. As of the date of writing, there is one review…
Don’t sweat the small stuff: My (sort of) superpower
About twenty years ago, my epiphany that not-all-people-think-like-me came when I was telling a new friend a night at the cinema had been ruined by a bobbing head. I was annoyed with myself, but also still with the bobber. She laughed her head off. Didn’t even pretend.
“Don’t you ever feel that way…
‘Is Transphobia the New Homophobia?’
Collins allowed more critical questions to be asked than I have ever witnessed in these spaces, though things were rather pre-empted by the question: Is Transphobia the New Homophobia? Well, no, it isn’t, never was and one could very well argue that trans ideology is the new homophobia. A point, unfortunately, that no one at…
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