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.
Category: Culture
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.
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.
‘Learn what life is like for transgender teens’
Lambeth Libraries have made the documentary shorts of The Youth and Gender Media Project, an initiative founded by filmmaker Jonathan Skurnik, free to view for library members and invited him to talk on the topic. Skurnik started the project because he wanted children who didn’t conform to ‘gender roles’ to feel valued, the upshot of which is that he was probably the first filmmaker to spread uncritical information about medical and surgical transition for children across North America. He made four films on this subject, as part of the Youth and Gender Media Project, over a ten year period, starting in 2010.
Q&A with Sam Feder, director of ‘Heightened Scrutiny’
Feder described the first time she met Mila as ‘so organic’. This was at the school board meeting, which appears in the documentary. Feder claimed she attended it as a ‘concerned adult’ and that 12 year old Mila approached her, coming out of the crowd ‘like a parting of the sea’, explicitly telling her: “You have my permission to film me.”
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