Reporting my contribution to Urban Claims And The Right To The City, a collaboration between campaigners and researchers in London and Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.
On the ending of Hedwig and the Angry Inch for Sight & Sound
On the ending of Hedwig and the Angry Inch as a quiet rebirth that finds hope in the kindness of strangeness.
Review of And Then We Danced for Sight & Sound
A review of And Then We Danced, Levan Akin’s intense, moving drama set in the world of Georgian traditional dance.
February 2020 update
Info about my recent and upcoming activity including an article about Derek Jarman’s cottage; How to Build a Hope Machine (the Dr Duckie live event); and talks on queer space/queer fun.
Edinburgh 2019: Dr Duckie & Scotsman coverage
Links to reviews and feature coverage from this year’s Fringe, where I also delivered my Dr Duckie talk.
Dr Duckie at LADA and on the Magic Me blog
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.
