IDAHOBIT* with The Love Tank

Participants could live, work or socialise in Tower Hamlets to contribute to the council’s ‘needs assessment’, meaning, if you’ve ever bought a matcha latte on Brick Lane, your opinion was as good as any. There were 25 research participants in total, 22 of whom attended a dinner party, with three additional interviewees outside of that setting. Sixty-eight percent identified as non-white and 80 percent as disabled (aka ‘neurodivergent’).

Trans History (and why it matters to you) – training for NHS staff

Davison’s preferred term to discuss all things trans was the nebulous-sounding ‘transness’.  Really this was so he could go ‘ooh, that’s a bit trans’ about everything.  Material reality wasn’t really a thing, Davison told us, quietly introducing the concept of ‘cisness’ to the assembled horde of NHS workers, using the cryptic example of ‘some people having a much more complicated relationship with their bodies’.

This Cisn’t Funny! | Trans+ History Week Comedy Showcase

Diageo HQ, as you’d expect, has a real bar on site and the cocktails were high-end, some of the best I’ve ever had in fact.  Predictably this led to me being pissed after the second and utterly shitfaced by the eighth.  No wonder I laughed so much.  It took about three days to dry out.  The nicest cocktail was Intersex on the Beach (phnarr), the pornstar martini a close second (too pie-eyed to see how that one got queered name-wise). 

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