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 on Amazon, and, unusually, not a single endorsement embedded into the official blurb. These people all have the same agent, so it’s not like there’s a dearth of Z-list slebs to gush over the truly inexecrable, therefore I suspect a marketing choice.
Category: Child safeguarding
Nostalgia for the emo
Trans activist gives talk on being ’emo’ but tells bog standard transition story instead. Organisers As per usual, the Barbican hosted a trans activist on
‘How do we win our rights?’
Podcast broadcast by Queer AF, held at Clifford Chance The blurby bit A live panel recording on “How do we win our rights?” with three
The inspiring story of Pop’N’Olly, the LGBT+ ‘edutainment’ company
The evening was also Olly Pike’s new book launch with the exciting opportunity to get a copy of Have You Ever Seen a Normal? This is self-described as ‘a delightful rhyming story designed to spark conversations about diversity and acceptance’. Some of the prose made up the beginning of Pike’s speech. It contains about a hundred uses of the word ‘normal’. Did you know there’s no such thing as normal? For example, there is no such thing as normal food, normal houses, normal families, normal kids, being a normal height, normal love or normal heat. Et cetera. Normal isn’t real. The implication being, of course, is that there is no such thing as abnormal [behaviour] and that everything is relative.
Trans Pride Panel at Waterstones Piccadilly
Pechey has also written a book. The Book of Non-Binary Joy. It was certainly an uphill struggle getting people to believe that trans non-binary people exist. Pechey claims that books about non-binary people were ‘prescriptive’ or ‘telling you how to be’ – showcasing that he has literally no clue of the genre.
“I Was a Queer Child and So Were You: Toward Social and Cultural Transformation”
Stockton went off on her ‘reading is like a kiss’ vein again, sometimes reading is like kissing your uncle. You can also penetrate someone with words. Were such thoughts offensive to asex(ual) people though? When I say ‘cat’ to you, your mind has to ‘birth’ the idea of a cat, what is left over is mystical. Roland Barthes eat your heart out.
The Lies They Tell 
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