Saturday Nov 7 // Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Friargate Theatre // York, UK Thursday Nov 26 // Whitechapel Gallery // London, UK The Space In Between is a very short film about me, by Lucy Brydon. In it I talk about the liminality of gender and trans. It contains some nudity and a lot
A creepy drawing I did of Nicolas Cage from Vampire’s Kiss was featured in issue two of Bad Movies, a zine about popular culture. You can download the whole issue for exactly £0.00 or buy a hard copy for $10.88.
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About 250–300 people took direct action to block the Eurostar departure gates at St Pancras last Friday night in solidarity with the migrants and refugees in Calais and detention centers in the UK and across the EU. Activists blocked the departure gates and passengers were stopped from boarding the
The wait time for an initial appointment with the Gender Identity Clinic in Charing Cross is about 12 months. In that appointment the doctor is supposed to verify your gender identity and pathologize your personal history, and five months later you’re given another appointment during which they might prescribe
Kinderkommunismus: A Feminist Analysis of the 21st Century Family and a Communist Proposal for its Abolition is a brave and articulate imagining of social reproduction without the gendered coercion inherent in the nuclear-family unit. Notably, this proposal is trans inclusive and takes an intersectional approach to feminism. ***Content note:
Here are some photos by Claudia Moroni from the queer fashion show I modeled in. Our runway show was directed by Krishna Istha, who is one of my favorite people. Boi fashion is more than a dapper suit. Boihood confuses binaries and fucks with gender. On this night we transition
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On the grounds Waterlily House Palm House Princess Of Wales Conservatory
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The Calais Solidarity Festival was organized by The London Latinx, Food Not Bombs, the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), Convoy For Calais, Refugee Youth, and others. From the first fundraiser’s facebook event page: Calais Solidarity Festival, taking place in mid-late October (Date TBC) is aiming to work with
There is still a large social stigma attached to being raped. Not only are there physical, emotional, and psychological costs to being raped (as I hope it would go without saying), there are high social costs which are as yet underexamined. After being raped, the victim is blamed for the
I’m pleased to report that I have been awarded a Master of Science in the field of International Relations Theory with honours (merit) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. [There was a Vine embedded in this post, but it's lost in the ash heap
The exchange between myself and an NHS psychologist during a “psychological evaluation” (psych eval); one of several bureaucratic hurdles on the way to gaining access to trans healthcare via the NHS. The conversation is abridged but quotes are verbatim. psychologist: Hello, I’m Dr ––. I’m going to ask you
Hey trans and queer people— Raise your hand if you ever found yourself performing heteronormative gender roles for the sake of cis or straight passing and then felt really weird about it because you were enforcing a binary which has been personally destructive and invalidating! * sheepishly raises hand * When trans