Category: Essay
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Movie Review: Victor/Victoria (1982, dir. Blake Edwards)
Had the absolute pleasure of going along to the Pictureville cinema here in Bradford this weekend to watch Victor/Victoria (1982, dir. Blake Edwards) as part of their Widescreen Weekend film festival. It was on my radar for a while, but I’d never gotten around to watching it, and when some friends of mine were going…
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I Am Bad Representation
And I could not care less. Yesterday, I went to my GP and got my testosterone injection administered. It’s an intramuscular injection generally administered to my backside, where the fattier, softer flesh makes the intramuscular penetration of the needle less painful, and also gives it space to settle in the flesh and slowly be assimilated into…
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A Month in Cats
Three cats in our home in the last four weeks. I love cats. We had two cats after our first dog, Jethro, died when I was growing up — mine was a tubby black-and-white darling we called Blackjack, and my sister’s was a thinner white sweetheart called Kitty, who unfortunately had a case of chronic anxiety where Blackjack…
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A Transphobe Ruined His Own Night Because I Was Existing Next to Him
Hate is a miserable business — but in this case, not for me! Originally published in Prism & Pen in December, 2024. My partner and I went to DILF Leeds for the first time this week — DILF, which obviously stands for Dad I’d Like To Fuck, is a regular gay dance night that runs here in the UK. It…
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Alien: Romulus: An Abortive Attempt at Homage to a Classic
Romulus started out promising, then proved itself an awful disappointment. The original Alien (1979) is far and away one of my favourite sci-fi films, one I’ve written about in the past, and I have a lot of affection for Aliens (1986) and even Alien 3 (1992), for all I feel it has its narrative flaws.…
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What’s In A Uniform?: Imperial Attitudes Reflected in Starfleet’s Uniforms
Relationships with imperial attitudes reflected in uniform and costuming in Star Trek Originally published in An Injustice! Introduction Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry’s vision of a post-war and post-scarcity future filled to the brim with infinite diversity in infinite combinations, is often posited as a luxury-filled communist utopia in space. In the 24th century within the United…
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The Joy of Trans Creation
On the liberty of making unapologetically transgender art. Originally published in Prism & Pen. For me as a child, there was no real transgender representation around me. Transfeminine characters were exciting when I saw them, even though they were frequently the butt of jokes, highly sexualised, or the targets of violence from the narratives they…
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The Devouring Gaze in The First Omen
The horror of surveillance and surveilling in Arkasha Stevenson’s The First Omen (2024). Cap via ScreenAnarchy. I was saying the other night after we came out of the cinema that for the past few years, it really feels like I can trust horror films more than virtually any other film — horror films generally have a specific, presumed…