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.”
Category: In Conversation
In conversation: Petra Lord and Juno Dawson
When Dawson wrote Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, he was looking for a new magical world, because he felt one particular magical world was no longer accessible to him as a trans person (that’s right, a full grown man crying about an author’s personal views outside of her fantasy series). This tragedy lead to him thinking about magical schools which had had a massive influence on his life prior to Hogwart’s, and has realised that The Worst Witch books by Jill Murphy were actually a lot more influential on him. So nurr.
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 things grounded’ (which is a contradiction in terms and surely laying the foundation for making yourself vulnerable to coercion).
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 of bed that morning to sit alongside him. Brave and stunning.
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) that people can really connect with. Honestly, the comedy writes itself with these people.
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 full of people! Why, every time she goes to Bishopsgate she’s always bumping into people!
The Lies They Tell 
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