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.
Trans Symposium at Birkbeck – ‘Existing Otherwise’
As regular tweeps know, we never shy away, having said that, even we couldn’t help being a bit rabbits-in-headlights when facing down the agenda for the Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence ‘Existing Otherwise’, published on Bluesky.
Items were as follows:
a Meditation titled “We Are Here.”
a Creative Collage Workshop, titled “Remapping Masculinity.”
a collaborative dreaming matrix lecture, titled “‘The pink octopus beckons me’: trans social dreaming.”
a session titled “Acknowledging realities, and imagining alternatives: What does a good life look like to you?”
an echo paper titled “Reclaiming the Monster: Transgender Horror and Individual Legibility” …. [cont.]
Derek Jarman Annual Lecture – given by trans-identified female
The Derek Jarman lecture is Queer@Kings flagship event and captures the politics of what they aim to do at the University. It is King’s College,
‘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.
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’).
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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