Category Archives: PRESS • REVIEWS • EVENTS

Turning the Worm

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Here’s an article I wrote last summer debating exactly who wears the trousers in “forced” feminisation. At the time, it was published in “Desire Presents: BDSM”. I scanned and saved it* but somehow forgot to post it here. Click on each thumbnail below to open a bigger version in a new window.

       

*rather badly, I’m afraid. A lot of the words are blotchy and almost unreadable. I blame technology.

(Later edit) Also I know that gender is complicated and I don’t mean to conflate TV, TS and fetish identities here. Everyone’s experience is unique and those who have a kink for forced fem can’t be generalised. Apologies if I didn’t clarify that enough in this piece.

Love on Trial

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I may or may not make it to this marvellous Mutineers’ mass-debate (I’m still a bit wobbly since being bashed by that bus) but it looks like it’ll be a good one. It’s at the Resistance Gallery (265 Poyser St, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9RF) and several acts have confirmed so far, including musician and comedian Helen Arney and performance poet Alison Brumfitt. Here are the details, via the lovely Lola Sparkle on the event’s Facebook page:

“Following the success of last year’s ‘on Trial’ events, Mutiny presents Love on Trial – an alternative Valentine’s night out of revolutionary politics, art and performance at the avant-garde Resistance Gallery in East London.

Join us for a carnivalesque evening of live entertainment and discussion as we cross-examine the concept of love from the left, starting with speed-debating and progressing through three interactive sessions… exploring a host of themes:

**How does romantic love work as an ideology, and can we escape the singular vision of it that saturates our airwaves? What is the relation between our historically specific conception of romantic heterosexual love and late capitalism? What other kinds of love might be valuable? Do we have enough love for our public services to save them?

**How does the state institutionalise, police and teach its citizens to love? How have schools, the church and the law helped and hindered the shift towards acceptance of a greater diversity of types of love? How did we build resistance in the past and where are the points of prejudice and control we need to confront today?

**What relation do love and other emotions bear to activism? Can daring to love differently be an efficacious political act in itself? Is it possible to separate our private lives from our political acts? What might love look like after the revolution?

With live music, performance poetry, and original live theatre, it’s a political party not to be missed.

Tickets £5 on the door or a very romantic buy-1-get-1-free online in advance at www.jointhemutiny.org.“

Read more at the Mutiny Blog.