Dr Duckie’s Homemade Mutant Hope Machines reaches the Live Art Development Agency and the intergenerational arts charity’s website.
Queer Connections at Camden People’s Theatre
A report after hosting a Sunday afternoon cabaret-panel-salon event themed around queer intergenerational connection, with Katy Jalili, Mzz Kimberley and Tom Marshman.
Dr Duckie’s debut
A report on a talk at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern unpacking ideas from my PhD about the queer value of homemade mutant hope machines – plus some inspirational examples from the people who came.
BFI Flare 2019 round-up (and 2018 podcast)
Thinking about challenges and opportunities to do with personal identity, collective action and uses of the past at this year’s London LGBTQ+ Film Festival (plus a link to podcast about the 2018 fest).
Review: Queer Spaces: London, 1980s – Today at Whitechapel Gallery
A free exhibition powerfully combines archives, art, activism and academia to show the capacious complexities of queer living in the material world.
Sorry Angel review for Sight & Sound
Gay identity, queer family, laughter and grief play out in Christophe Honoré’s semi-autobiographical feature set in 1990s Paris.
Dr Duckie at the RVT
I’ll present my doctoral findings on the power of queer fun and homemade mutant hope machines in a free event on Saturday 11 May.
How to Catch a Krampus review for Evening Standard
A wonderfully macabre festive production by Ginger Johnson, featuring Lavinia Coop, for Sink the Pink at the Pleasance.
John Waters interview for the Guardian
An interview with the Pope of Trash about his live show, the changing world, trans issues, the Manson family and the uses and limits of humour.
Alternative Miss World 2018 review
Andrew Logan brings an extraordinary evening of psychedelic peace, pageantry, creativity, eccentricity and utopianism to Shakespeare’s Globe.
