An interview with myself and fellow Black Cap Community campaigner Alex Green about ongoing efforts to reopen the iconic LGBTQ+ pub, club, cabaret and community space.
Observer feature on Duckie leaving the RVT
A personal piece introducing a round-up of producer, performer and punter memories of Duckie as the seminal queer club’s 27-year run at the RVT comes to a close.
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.
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 online – read the PhD, watch the talk
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
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.
April 2020 update
Info about my recent and upcoming activity including responses to the coronavirus pandemic, Dr Duckie latest and coverage of BFI Flare’s Five Films for Freedom and Bourgeois & Maurice’s Insane Animals.
