BFI Flare 2022 preview for Sight & Sound

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London’s celebration of queer cinema returns to in-person screenings while keeping some of its online offering.

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Great Freedom review for Sight & Sound

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Sebastiane Meise’s film about gay incarceration in postwar Germany finds the value of holding and being held tight when it counts.

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Minyan review for Sight & Sound

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A portrait of Jewish and queer intergenerationality proposes collective agency as a version of hope.

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Ellie and Abbie (and Abbie’s Dead Aunt) review for Sight & Sound

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Monica Zanetti’s lesbian romance makes homophobia a historical issue, summoning a ghost of the queer past for high school advice.

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Martyr review for Sight & Sound

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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

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Duckie is closing

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The queer performance collective’s 27-year Saturday night RVT residency will end in July.

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Cabaret and decadence

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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.

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Derek Jarman exhibition preview for Sight & Sound

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Two retrospective shows in Manchester and Southampton reveal the urgent timeliness of Jarman’s politics, art and life to Britain today.

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Dr Duckie’s Magazine at the RVT, July 2021

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Report on an RVT event celebrating Duckie community projects The Posh Club, with older people, and The Slaughterhouse Club, with homeless people.

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LGBTQ+ History Month Q&A for QMUL alumni network

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Queen Mary University of London alumni asked me some questions about my work and other queer stuff for their blog.

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