CN Lester’s annual ‘pit party’ returns to the Barbican for its ?5th year. Last year the theme was ‘joy’, this year it’s ‘burn’. The blurby
A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar: Book Launch
Written by ‘Harry’ Nicholas, the book is exactly what the title suggests it to be, a woman’s experience of cos-playing as gay in the world of the sauna and Grindr. As per the usual, a roll call of trans activists provide the endorsements. There’s an overwrought endorsement from fellow heterosexual trans activist Fox Fisher, damning with faint praise from Christine Burns, but Daniel Harding, author of the book Gay Man Talking, gives it a thumbs-up. Nicholas also writes for Pink News and is just 26 years old (according to her Twitter bio).
Profile of trans activist Sarah Jane Baker
Introduction Sarah Jane Baker, formerly Alan Baker, is a trans-identified male who has spent 30 years in prison for two violent offences. This is a
Trans healthcare conference
Yet again, the activists do a sterling job of ignoring health issues and detransitioners … Introduction Let’s face it, these are trying times for the
Late night party animals
Facts about woodlice. I have a few. Woodlice are late night party animals. And, when a woodlouse is ready to die, it rolls on
In conversation: Roxane Gay at WOW
Introducing Roxane Gay onto stage was one of the organisers of the Women of the World festival, who praised Gay’s great contribution to a ‘fully intersectional just world’ which would ultimately ‘help our LGBT kids’. Gay was to be interviewed by fellow race card holder Afua Hirsch, who, when she interviewed Patrisse Cullors for the WOW festival the previous year, asked precisely not one incisive question.
I have to say, unlike most of the people I have covered for this blog, Gay was naturally funny, often deflecting Hirsch’s asinine and fake observations (Hirsch: ‘Your range is actually extraordinary-‘, interrupting, Gay quipped ‘-I do have the range’). Hirsch went onto list her many projects, which included fiction writing, TV and film projects, writing the World of Wakanda for Marvel and a podcast. And, of course, her cultural criticism.
The Lies They Tell 
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