Oct 24 2023 62 mins
Guest writer and filmmaker JULIET JACQUES joins artist and writer JILLIAN KNIPE to discuss her creative practice via 'Variations' 2021 by the one and only Juliet herself. Published in 2021 by Influx Press, this book of short stories portrays the mixed, messy and moving lives of transexual women transexual men, non binary, gender queer, cross dressers and inverts, around London, Manchester, Liverpool, Blackpool, Brighton, Belfast, Cardiff and Norwich.
Juliet and Jillian focus on 'Standards of Care' and also discuss humour, poverty, divorce, testosterone, rainbow capitalism, fake tits, ink blot tests, electric shock therapy, alternative Miss World, punk rock gender play, friendship in the face of prejudice, making objects that cannot be sold, itchy balls of wool for breasts, fresh meat advertising slogan, interest in post communist countries, the importance of questioning how people pay the rent and the disappointment of greater understanding not necessarily bringing about greater tolerance.
JULIET JACQUES
julietjacques.com
'Monaco' Toothgrinder Press 2023
'Variations' Influx Press 2021
'Trans: A Memoir' Verso Books 2015
'Transgender Journey' 2010-2012 The Guardian
'Suite 212' 2017-2021 Resonance FM
'Revivification: Art, Activism and Politics in Ukraine' 2018
ARTISTS
Boris Mikilov
Cecilia Sjoholm
David Goymer
Deborah Tchoudjinoff
Garth Gatrix
Hatty Buchanan
Iain Hales
Laura Moreton-Griffiths
WRITERS
Susan Stryker 'Transgender History' 2008
MUSIC
Genesis
Joy Division
Man Enough to be A Woman (Jayne County)
New York Dolls
NME magazine
Sex Pistols
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Siouxsie Sioux
The Fall
The Roxy
Wayne County and The Electric Chairs
FILM + TV
Adam Curtis 'Can't Get You Out of my Head' series 2021 BBC
Bill Grundy 'Today' 1968-1977
Derek Jarman 'Jubilee' 1978
Hattie Jacques 'Carry On' series 1958-1992
Oksana Kazmina, camera and editor
Josh Appignanesi 'Female Human Animal' 2018
EDUCATION + INSTITUTIONS
ICA London
Somerset House Studios
The Royal College
POLITICS + MOVEMENTS
Black Lives Matter
Femen 2008 Ukraine founded by Anna Hutsol, Alexandra Shevchenko, Oksana Shachko
Gay Liberation Front
Margaret Thatcher for Section 28
Revolution of Dignity 18-23 Feb 2014 Ukraine
ReSew - Kyiv based feminist sewing cooperative
Viktor Yanukovych