We don’t know the impact we have on the lives of others. We come in and out of the world in ways we don’t anticipate and we find ourselves in the art of people who’s lives we walked through.
People write about us, they take artistic license from our selves, they paint us, they sit us in the background of films. In turn we sculpt them, compose songs about them, review them on the internet.
Pain & Glory is Almodóvar at…
Gender, to me, is one of the most pivotal and defining points of my existence.
Raised as a girl, and struggling with how I interacted with the world (and how it interacted with me) until I finally admitted at age seventeen that I was, in fact, male, and needed to transition.
The idea of living my life as a woman was a grave and cruel punishment, not because I think being a woman is a punishment, but because it would…
To be a gay man, watching this in 2019 is a strange situation to find one’s self in. Blue played at the Edinburgh International Film Festival a few days after I was born. I am watching it 25 years later in a world completely different to the one Jarman left behind. We have a long way to go in terms of queer rights, and oftentimes it’s two steps forwards and one step back, but we aren’t banned from educating the…
