Duckie is closing

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 […]

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.

Dr Duckie online – read the PhD, watch the talk

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Now live: online resources from my doctoral research about Duckie and homemade mutant hope machines, including open-access PhD thesis and an hour-long talk.

Article for Performance Research on Duckie’s Slaughterhouse Club

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Linking to an article based on my PhD research with Duckie – about The Slaughterhouse Club drop-in arts project for people living with homelessness – in the academic journal article Performance Research.

Interview with Oliver Hermanus about Moffie for Sight & Sound

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The South African director talks about male sexual stigma and fear in a paranoid nation.