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  • 26 January 202126 January 2021
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Why can’t artists admit they have jobs?

Maybe I’ve been watching too many old Midsomer Murders episodes, but recently I’ve been thinking about blackmail. Specifically, how one might blackmail different people using their fears, their vices and the public image they desperately…

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Drag performer Tito Bone adjusts their costume, ready to go onstage. Credit: Christopher Andreou for the Wellcome Collection.
  • 5 January 20218 January 2021
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Wellcome Collection: Art, Activism & Access

Last year, I was lucky enough to work with the Wellcome Collection, voicing audio versions of six articles by disabled artist and activist Jamie Hale on the subject of Art, Activism & Access. Hale’s brilliant…

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  • 6 January 20179 August 2020
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New Year’s fear and Quantum Hotness

There’s a brilliant vignette in Adam Warren’s graphic novel Empowered in which the insecure hero’s boyfriend Thugboy lets us in on his theory of quantum hotness: It’s a prime cut of comic book truth that’s…

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  • 15 December 20169 August 2020
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Play-poems and bardbots!

Advent is upon us, and we’ve been celebrating over at Sidekick Books! Every day we’ve opened a new window of poetry mishmashery, featuring: i) Hybardrid Twitterbots, mixing famous poets with other poets and other texts…

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  • 29 February 20169 August 2020
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Haul Monitor: Collage, Tomboys and Crows

I’ve received a couple of fantastic things through the post of late, and thought I’d share the excitement. Pamphlet: Tomboys by Jon Stone. The pamphlet is an ode to three anime heroines: Utena from Revolutionary…

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