Suite (212)

Recorded live in Birmingham during Grand Union’s ‘Ways of Learning’ exhibition, this episode of Suite (212) Extra discusses queer consciousness-raising. Juliet talks to writer/artist Huw Lemmey about LGBTQI+ activism before and after the Stonewall riots of June 1969 in the US and western Europe; the use of direct action and think-ins by the Gay Liberation Front and others; how AIDS and Section 28 changed queer art and activism; the development of trans theory in the 1990s; and the state of queer politics and creativity today. SELECTED REFERENCES Travis Alabanza - http://travisalabanza.co.uk Kenneth Anger Penny Arcade (performance artist) - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/juliet-jacques/2012/06/penny-arcade-someone-always-queer Army of Lovers (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1979) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078794 HARRY BENJAMIN, The Transsexual Phenomenon (1967) Jay Bernard - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/05/speaking-out-jay-bernard-surge-side-a-poet Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore - https://www.ma