Monica Zanetti’s lesbian romance makes homophobia a historical issue, summoning a ghost of the queer past for high school advice.
Martyr review for Sight & Sound
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
Duckie is closing
Cabaret and decadence
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
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
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
Queen Mary University of London alumni asked me some questions about my work and other queer stuff for their blog.
December 2020 update
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)
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 guest spot on How To Be Hopeful
Link to a recent conversation with Bernadette Russell for her podcast about new forms of hope in difficult times.
