Ellie and Abbie (and Abbie’s Dead Aunt) review for Sight & Sound

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Monica Zanetti’s lesbian romance makes homophobia a historical issue, summoning a ghost of the queer past for high school advice.

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Martyr review for Sight & Sound

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A waterfront in Beirut is a place for escape and langurous pleasure in Mazen Khaled’s sensual exploration of male corporeality, both in life and in death

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Duckie is closing

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The queer performance collective’s 27-year Saturday night RVT residency will end in July.

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Cabaret and decadence

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A talk for the Staging Decadence salon about what decadence under neoliberalism might relate to – appetite? affect? productivity? identity? status? – and how cabaret might model it.

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Derek Jarman exhibition preview for Sight & Sound

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Two retrospective shows in Manchester and Southampton reveal the urgent timeliness of Jarman’s politics, art and life to Britain today.

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Dr Duckie’s Magazine at the RVT, July 2021

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Report on an RVT event celebrating Duckie community projects The Posh Club, with older people, and The Slaughterhouse Club, with homeless people.

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LGBTQ+ History Month Q&A for QMUL alumni network

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Queen Mary University of London alumni asked me some questions about my work and other queer stuff for their blog.

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December 2020 update

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 Hello. I hope you and your loved ones are keeping safe and well in the continuing weirdness. Here’s a round-up of a few things I’ve been up to that might be of interest.   Something for the weekend: This Is Not a Dream streaming online Back in 2011, Gavin Butt and I made a feature […]

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Online workshop call-out: DIY Hope Machines (LADA DIY 2020)

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Fancy £200 for doing an artists’ workshop about queer hope, support, mutation and fun? Dr Duckie’s on the case, in collaboration with Folkestone Fringe and the Live Art Development Agency.

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Dr Duckie guest spot on How To Be Hopeful

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Link to a recent conversation with Bernadette Russell for her podcast about new forms of hope in difficult times.

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