Introduction I returned to the BFI’s Flare Festival 2025, which is now forty years old (it began life, of course, as a lesbian and gay
Category: Culture
Review of Leigh Bowery! – Tate Modern Exhibition
I couldn’t be arsed to upload the photos to my laptop, so this review exists as a thread on Twitter instead and is probably the
In Conversation: Shon Faye on his new book ‘Love in Exile’
It always startles me just how popular trans still is; Shon Faye almost sold out the event, a thousand seater, in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank. It was mainly young women but a fair few trans-identified males of various ages were dotted throughout. On the whole it felt like a cis-het crowd though, if you’ll pardon the lingo, one desperate to align itself to everything woke and a poke in the eye to its mums. Pre-signed books were available in the foyer, a neat way of letting us know that Faye was not to rub shoulders with us later. That didn’t bother Faye’s biggest fan though, sat next to me, who literally laughed, gasped, sighed, etc, non-stop in response to his asinine lispy utterances.
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
In conversation event with ‘trans bearish man’
‘Fucking Myself Goodbye’ is the title of the last chapter. It was going to be the title of the book but she was persuaded otherwise by her publisher. Ben-Zeev did her reading, torpid prose indeed and also very confusing. Talia is the woman she wants to fuck, – as a man, as Avi. She wanted connect to the physical parts of the herself which caused her pain and self-loathing. She can’t really do this via her imagination so settles instead on finding a Talia-lookalike (another trope of AGP males, trying to imitate the women in their lives).
‘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 Lies They Tell 
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