Revealing Histories and Gender Variations (JULIET JACQUES)

ART FICTIONS

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