First published in the 2020 Summer Issue Illustration by Ren O’Hare JK Rowling’s ‘Gender critical’ i.e. transphobic rant on Twitter, and subsequent essay was both upsetting and unsurprising. I will not be quoting her essay here as I do … Continue reading The Transphobia of J.K Rowling
In her next film, Rub & Tug, Scarlett Johansson is playing Dante ‘Tex’ Gill, a brothel-running, mob-feuding, tough-talking trans man in Seventies Pittsburgh. Johansson is possibly the worst casting choice possible. Springtime for Hitler bad. Why is this so problematic? … Continue reading Lost in Trans-lation: Why Scarlett Johansson is Cancelled Scarlett Johansson is possibly the worst casting choice possible for Dante ‘Tex’ Gill.
I’ve written before about my frustration with J.K. Rowling’s white-washed, cishet-centric world view, and her performative allyship to the disenfranchised. The self-congratulatory liberal politics she’s expressed have always faded when her billionaire’s bottom line was in question, or when one … Continue reading J. K. Rowling & the TERF Receipts Delete your account.
●●●●● Tangerine is a strikingly documentary-like feature that charts one particularly sunny Christmas Eve in West Hollywood, through the eyes of two transgender sex workers – Alexandra and Sin-Dee – and an Armenian taxi driver, Razmik (Played by Mya Taylor, … Continue reading Tangerine – Review
Ireland’s LGBT film festival finds focuses on the theme of power in shared stories. Continue reading GAZE launches 2014 festival program