'Bones dreaming of becoming shells, becoming Art Nouveau, becoming Istanbul ...' Michael Rakowitz, 'The flesh is yours, the bones are ours', 2019 Sometimes really fun and interesting things happen in my otherwise pretty grim London life, and an example of this occurred at work on Monday. I am a gallery assistant at Whitechapel Gallery and… Continue reading On Michael Rakowitz
Category: culture
On The Violent Lesbian: Part 4
This final instalment of my Violent Lesbian series is vaguely on the huge subject of pornography. I hope to show that by considering porn and its current impact on our sexuality, most of the strands of my arguments over the past few posts will naturally come together in a pleasing conclusive cum shot. Something to… Continue reading On The Violent Lesbian: Part 4
On ‘Suspiria’
It has been a long and lazy Christmas break for me, with two weeks at home in Glasgow doing nothing apart from drinking gin and taking the dog for walks. However, I am now back in London and in real life again, and ready to atone for my abandonment of writing, life admin and looking… Continue reading On ‘Suspiria’
On Leonora Carrington
My mother entered, pale with rage. 'We'd just sat down at table,' she said, 'when that thing, sitting in your place, got up and shouted: "So I smell a bit strong, what? Well I don't eat cakes." Whereupon it tore off its face and ate it, and with one great bound, disappeared through the window.'… Continue reading On Leonora Carrington
On The Violent Lesbian: Part 3
Sometimes after an hour of apathy, my strange and beautiful companion would take my hand and hold it with a fond pressure, renewed again and again; blushing softly, gazing in my face with languid and burning eyes, and breathing so fast that her dress rose and fell with the tumultuous respiration. It was like the… Continue reading On The Violent Lesbian: Part 3
On the Violent Lesbian: Part 2
“Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.” Stieg Larsson, The Girl that Played with Fire (2006) So, in the Violent Lesbian world: if Villanelle from Killing Eve represents the contemporary fictional psycho-killer and Aileen… Continue reading On the Violent Lesbian: Part 2
On Alternative Practices
"As I taught [at California College of the Arts], many students were coming to the end of their studies and were moving toward things that weren't art. But they weren't saying 'fuck the art world'. It was the content of their work that led them into other field, to, say, becoming a doctor, as one… Continue reading On Alternative Practices
On the Violent Lesbian: Part 1
I'm going to write some short pieces tying together some thoughts I've had on the image of The Violent Lesbian as she pops up in our collective consciousness of the world. She's a character I have thought a lot about over the years, as I think the transgressive and conservative ways in which she is… Continue reading On the Violent Lesbian: Part 1
Sertraline Dreams 