Podcasts about trans a memoir

Sheila Heti in conversation with Juliet Jacques: Sheila Heti, author of Alphabetical Diaries, Pure Colour, Motherhood and How Should A Person Be?, among other works, speaks to writer, journalist, filmmaker Juliet Jacques, whose published works include Monaco, Variations and Trans: A Memoir, about her writing to date. The discussion touches on revealing the hidden face of the self in writing, taking contemporary culture seriously as subject matter, the possibility of capturing ‘the spirit of the age' in a time of fragmentation, and the unconscious processes that shape our lives. Recorded at Young Space in May 2024. Edited by Frankie Wells. Music composed by Kwes Darko.

Juliet is a writer and filmmaker. Her short fiction and journalism have appeared in Frieze, The New York Times, Granta, London Review of Books and other publications. Her short films have screened in galleries and festivals worldwide. She is the author of Trans: A Memoir (2015), Variations (2021), Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007 - 2021 (2022). Juliet appears in issue 2 of WORMS MAGAZINE.

"As long as there's people there will be ideas, and there will be ways to express them" - Juliet Jacques Misinformation, erasure, and dangerous, transphobic rhetoric has noticeably intensified across mainstream media outlets in the past decade, with “debates'' around trans rights seeking to delegitimise and disempower the trans community. So how has this landscape changed, if at all, in recent history? How can cultural engagement combat this toxicity? Seasoned journalist Juliet Jacques and emerging writer Jackson King candidly consider the present and future state of the British media. Juliet and Jackson's word of the day is CULTURE Watch along with this episode here  About our contributors: Jackson King is a queer Black trans man, journalist, writer, cultural worker and professional dominant (Mister Saul). He's the founding editor of Irresistible Damage (an online magazine for gay/bi trans mascs) and he also writes transmasc erotica on substack (TESTOSTEROTICA). Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published five books, including Trans: A Memoir (2015), Variations (2021) and Monaco (2023). Her fiction, journalism and essays have appeared in numerous publications, and her short films have screened across the world. She teaches at the Royal College of Art and co-hosts Novara FM. You can find our list of resources here #AnthemsTalks is a collection of intimate conversations between pairs of trailblazers, activists and creatives in honour of Transgender Awareness Week. It was Executive Produced by Bea Duncan, with Production from Talia Augustidis and Lucy Carr, video production from Thunder Video, video editing by Eleanore Bamber and Sound Engineering by Ben Williams. The artwork is by Eleanore Bamber and Mars West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The author of a trilogy of transgender memoir, fiction and journalism - Trans: A Memoir, Variations, and Front Lines returns to TPS to discuss political fiction writing, and what the Left might be missing in the changing discourse around transgenderism today. Help us develop The Popular Show and get this and other extra shows at https://www.patreon.com/thepopularpod More ways to help us continue: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thepopularshow https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thepopularshow https://cash.app/£ThePopularShow

In the second of a two-part feature recorded for LGBTQ+ History Month, presenter Roxie talks to Juliet Jacques, writer, journalist and author of Trans: A Memoir about her 2021 short-story collection Variations and the politics of representing trans history. She also speaks to Ben Miller, historian, writer and co-host of the Bad Gays podcast about complicating conventional queer histories as well as his research into the colonial legacy of queer representation. For more information on UCL's recent decision to cut ties with Stonewall: https://thetab.com/uk/london/2022/01/21/vindictive-and-insensitive-students-and-staff-slam-ucl-decision-to-cut-ties-with-stonewall-44148 Petition calling for UCL to rejoin the scheme: https://www.change.org/p/ucl-ucl-staff-students-alumni-ask-ucl-to-rejoin-stonewall-schemes The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect the official policies, views or positions of any institutions with which they are affiliated. To access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/moveable-type/moveable-type-podcast-lgbtq-history-month-transcript-episode-3-part-2 Date of episode recording: 2022-02-16 Duration: 01:10:50 Language of episode: English Presenter: Roxana Toloza Chacon Guests: Juliet Jacques; Ben Miller Producer: Anna De Vivo; Damian Walsh; Editor: Daniel Lewis

Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London, and a fellow contributor to Resonance FM. She is the author of Trans: A Memoir, and now a collection of short stories Variations, which uses "found" documents and real-life events to rewrite and reinvigorate a history of transgender Britain. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Oriana speaks with writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques whose work poses a challenge to mainstream misunderstandings about trans lives. She has done this by putting her own stories in print through a blog in The Guardian, in her book Trans: A Memoir and through a new collection of short stories called Variations, which came out on 17 June. Speaking about her pivot to fiction, Jacques posits that telling a big lie, i.e. 'this is not true', has the benefit of allowing for but importantly not obliging truthfulness. Indeed, Jacques has disclosed a lot, but she is also quite particular about where she draws the line. To give some examples, she starts her memoir with a vivid account of her surgical transition and she's happy to disclose the circumstances under which she discovered that her clitoris worked, but she won't put her love life on the internet. So if you're curious to understand the rationale behind these choices, take a listen. Oriana Fox is an artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.Juliet Jacques is a writer, filmmaker and cultural critic who has written three books and an array of essays for a variety of publications including but not limited to The Guardian, Sight & Sound, Frieze, New York Times, The Washington Post, TimeOut, New Inquiry, The New Statesman. She writes on topics that reflect her expertise in and passion for literature and the arts more generally, trans politics, anti-capitalism and, of course, football. She also founded and hosts the podcast Suite (212) on Resonance 104.4fm, which looks at the arts in their social, cultural, political and historical contexts. You can purchase her most recent book Variations directly from the publisher InFlux or via most booksellers. Credits:Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana FoxPost-production mixing by Stacey HarveyThemesong written and performed by Paulette HumanbeingSpecial thanks to Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Sven Olivier Van Damme and the Foxes and Hayeses. Would you like to see your name in the credits list? In a couple of short steps, you can make that happen by supporting this podcast via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/orianafox

In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work. In the eighth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to writer and artist Joanna Walsh, the author of seven books including the short story collections Fractals (2013), Vertigo (2015) and Worlds from the Word’s End (2017), the novel Break.up (2018) and a work of creative non-fiction, Hotel (2015). They discussed Joanna’s Zines in Dark Times project, launched in response to the Covid-19 crisis; how writers might resist the pressure to react quickly to the epidemic and instead produce more considered work, and Joanna’s new piece of writing ‘The Dispossessed’ (2020); Joanna’s career in illustration, including her cover for Juliet’s book Trans: A Memoir (2015); her digital work Seed (2017) and new illustrations for her short story Grow a Pair (2015); the @Read_Women campaign that Joanna began on Twitter in 2014; her activism on ageism in literary and artistic circles, particularly in awards; and her feelings about the London-centric literary ‘scene’, and how literature might move beyond it. A full list of references for the programme, with links, can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.

Books by Darcey SteinkeFlash Point Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life (Sarah Crichton Books, 2019)Jesus Saves (Grove Press, 2019)Easter Everywhere (Bloomsbury, 2007)Milk (Bloomsbury, 2005)Up Through the Water (Grove Press, 2000)Suicide Blond (Grove Press, 2000)John-KJV (Grove Press, 1999)Other Writers and Texts Mentioned in the EpisodeMaud CaseyThe Testosterone Files by Max Wolf Valerio (Seal Press, 2006)Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques (Verso, 2016)Speedboat by Renata Adler (NYRB Books, 2013)Branwell by Douglas A. MartinSarah Manguso (ep. 37)Maggie Nelson (ep. 82)Fanny HoweNick CaveWomen’s Writing Festival in Sydney, AustraliaOther Relevant LinksMike W. Hudsonhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/opinion/reading-writing-stuttering.html

While the so-called centre-left feel gleeful and emboldened, every real socialist around feels depressed as fuck right now - not just in Britain, but many of our international comrades too; RP Corp Intl is, after all, an international multimedia conglomerate. Writer and RP regular Juliet Jacques (contributor to Tribune, New Socialist and elsewhere, host of @Suite-212, author of Trans: A Memoir, and @zinovievletter on Twitter) joins us to discuss not so much the left in the wake of the election as *being* on the left in the wake of the election; feeling the weight of the great closing off of possibility, the toxic mix of political despair and personal depression, the constant asking ourselves how we're supposed to go forward at all. We almost called this episode "What's Left?" - which is sort of the question it poses - but decided to name it after a Crazy Moose song rather than a book by a cunt. We don't plan on giving up the fight, so if you want to support real hard left media, subscribe to patreon.com/reelpolitik

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.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/ Imogen Binnie - https://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/04/02/nevada-a-novel-by-imogen-binnie/ KATE BORNSTEIN, Gender Outlaw (1994) - https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kate-bornstein/gender-outlaw/ Lee Brewer & Bunny Eisenhower City of Lost Souls (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1983) - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/returning-to-the-city-of-lost-souls Come Out (Gay Liberation Front magazine) Contrapoints - https://www.theverge.com/tech/2018/8/24/17689090/contrapoints-youtube-natalie-wynn Kenny Everett Rainer Werner Fassbinder LESLIE FEINBERG, Stone Butch Blues (1993) - http://www.lesliefeinberg.net FHAR (Front for Homosexual Revolutionary Action) Fierce Pussy - https://fiercepussy.org/ Ray Filar - https://twitter.com/rayfilar Diamanda Galás Gender Trash from Hell (zine) - https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/xg94hp65x Gender Troublemakers (dir. Xanthra Philippa & Mirha-Soleil Ross, 1993) Henry Gerber - http://chicagolgbthalloffame.org/gerber-henry Allen Ginsberg Gran Fury - https://hyperallergic.com/46881/gran-fury-read-my-lips-80-wse-nyu Sunil Gupta – ‘‘Pretended’ Family Relationships’ (1988-89) Keith Haring Harry Hay - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hay Magnus Hirschfeld Homocult (1990s UK queer group) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11936213-queer-with-class David Hoyle - https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/vb349b/the-parallel-universe-of-david-hoyle It is Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1971) - https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/tags/73387-it-is-not-the-homosexual-who-is-perverse-but-the-society-in-which-he-lives JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015) LaJohn Joseph - http://www.lajohnjoseph.com/ Larry Kramer - https://www.poz.com/article/course-larry-kramer-believes-aids-worse-now-ever LSD - http://archivo-t.net/portfolio/1995-%C2%B7-menstruosidades/ Robert Mapplethorpe MARIO MIELI, Elements of a Homosexual Critique (1977) Zanele Muholi My Beautiful Launderette (dir. Stephen Frears, 1985) Pier Paolo Pasolini The Passage (band) - https://thepassage.co.uk/texts/andertons_hall.html Lazlo Pearlman Casey Plett Positiv and Silence = Death (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1990) PAUL B. PRECIADO, Testo Junkie (2008) Pride (dir. Matthew Warchus, 2014) Nat Raha Ron Rice Ignacio Rivera Sylvia Rivera - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QiigzZCEtQ Round the Horne (BBC radio series) Vito Russo Richard Scott JULIA SERANO, Excluded (2013) SANDY STONE, ‘The “Empire” Strikes Back: A Post-Transsexual Manifesto’ (1987) Screaming Queens (dir. Susan Stryker & Victor Silverman, 2008) Jack Smith Tim Peaks: Farron Walk With Me (radio play, 2018) ISABEL WAIDNER (ed.), Liberating the Canon (2018) We Have Rather Been Invaded (dir. Ed Webb-Ingall, 2016) Oscar Wilde Eley Williams Kenneth Williams David Wojnarowicz Zaj (Spanish Fluxus group) - https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/zaj

Why make a political arts programme? In this episode of Suite (212) Extra, hosts Juliet Jacques and Tom Overton discuss today's arts broadcasting and left-wing podcast scenes, and the place of Suite (212) and Resonance 104.4fm within it; how British modernist writers worked with TV and radio; how mainstream media leftists fought to establish a tradition of radical but popular cultural criticism; and plans for future shows, including a call for Gunnersaurus to come on Suite (212). SELECTED REFERENCES Larry Achiampong - http://www.larryachiampong.co.uk Battleship Potemkin (dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) Walter Benjamin Anya Berger - https://frieze.com/article/life-margins John Berger Joseph Beuys Ernst Bloch Café Calcio - https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/playlists/cafe-calcio/ Hélène Cixous Jean Cocteau JONATHAN COE, Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson (2004) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jul/10/biography.jonathancoe CYRIL CONNOLLY, Enemies of Promise (1938) Adam Curtis - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis Douglas Davis - https://www.moma.org/artists/40384 The Fall (group) Good Morning Mr Orwell (dir. Nam June Paik, 1984) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIQLhyDIjtI Rayner Heppenstall - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-connecting-door/ Sheila Heti The Hooting Yard on the Air - https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/playlists/hooting-yard/ Hour of the Furnaces (dir. Fernando Solanas, 1968) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/greatest-films-all-time-essays/light-my-fire-hour-furnaces Ignota Press In Our Time (BBC radio) Influx Press B. S. Johnson on Samuel Johnson (ITV, 1972) JAMES JOYCE, Ulysses (1922) JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015) JOE KENNEDY, Authentocrats (2018) - http://review31.co.uk/essay/view/64/the-great-northern-morlock-hunt Chris Kraus Kusama’s Self-Obliteration (dir. Jud Yalkut, 1967) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6wnhLqJqVE Deborah Levy - https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/07/things-i-dont-want-know-powerful-feminist-response-orwells-why-i-write Christopher Logue - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Logue London Film-Makers’ Co-op Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (dir. Mark Achbar & Pete Wintonick, 1992) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrBQEAM3rE So Mayer Jonathan Meades - https://vimeo.com/meadesshrine Media Democracy - https://soundcloud.com/media-democracy-pod Bill Morrison Oli Mould Simon Munnery’s Experimental Half Hour (Resonance FM show) The New Babylon (dir. Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOhcTuFYe0 New Socialist - https://newsocialist.org.uk/people-are-intelligent-and-we-shouldnt-assume-otherwise/ Novara Media Clive Nwonka Oasis Oberhausen festival - http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/oberhausen-film-festival/ Only Artists (BBC radio) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6wnhLqJqVE GEORGE ORWELL, Animal Farm (1945) Jordan Peterson - https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-194-fck-12-feat-shuja-haider-and-elon-musk-31818 Politics Theory Other - https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother Jacques Prévert Project O. Ann Quin Reel Politik - https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, The Social Contract (1762) MARC SAPORTA, Composition No. 1 (1962) - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maybe-you-should-start-again/ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Richard III (c.1593) So Solid Crew The Spice Girls David Stubbs Suite (212) (dir. Nam June Paik, 1975) - https://www.eai.org/titles/suite-212 JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT, Football (2018) - https://www.ft.com/content/a65b540c-1767-11e6-b197-a4af20d5575e JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT, Zidane’s Melancholy (2007) - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/133790326925/zidanes-melancholy-by-jean-philippe-toussaint Turn! Turn! Turn! (dir. Jud Yalkut, 1966) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXB-DlrQub0 The War Game (dir. Peter Watkins, 1965) Ways of Seeing (dir. Mike Dibb, 1972) Rosie Wilby - https://www.rosiewilby.com/radio

Sheila Heti's new novel 'Motherhood' (Henry Holt/Harvill Secker, 2018) is a formally inventive, deeply personal exploration of a woman's decision about whether to have children. It builds on the success of her 'novel from life', 'How Should a Person Be?' and confirms her as one of the most interesting and exciting authors of the 21st century. In our June 2018 episode, Juliet talks to Sheila about her new book and her life in writing. WORKS BY SHEILA HETI The Middle Stories (2001) Ticknor: A Novel (2005) How Should a Person Be? (2010) The Chairs are Where the People Go (2011) We Need a Horse (2011) Women in Clothes (2014, co-edited with Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton) All Our Happy Days are Stupid (2015) Motherhood (2018) Kathy Acker Thomas Bernhard Cool Runnings (dir. Jon Turteltaub, 1993) Rachel Cusk Dave Eggers 'The Hills' (TV series, 2006-10) JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015) JULIET JACQUES, 'The Woman in the Portrait' Karl Ove Knausgaard CHRIS KRAUS, I Love Dick (1997) Ben Lerner Herman Melville Henry Miller Joe Orton Willam H. Prescott - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Prescott NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 'The Age of Suspicion' (1963) - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/03/05/nathalie-sarraute/ George Ticknor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ticknor Margaux Williamson - http://www.margauxwilliamson.com/

Writers Juliet Jacques and Huw Lemmey are back in the saddle to conclude our lengthy discussion of Juliet's time in the mainstream liberal press and the structural barriers that make it a difficult medium through which to convey left-wing ideas. We read from two superb pieces by Joe Kennedy (see bottom of description for links), discuss the dynamics and power relations between public figures and their "trolls", how the social media wars of the early 2010s dovetailed into those of the Corbyn era, and which prominent nerd's stapler narrowly avoided a jelly-related fate. Read Joe Kennedy's piece on The Stuplime Object of Ideology on newsocialist.org.uk: https://newsocialist.org.uk/the-stuplime-object-of-ideology/ and his piece on Non-Linear Borefare here: http://adrawingsympathy.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/non-linear-borefare.html Buy Juliet's autobiographical work, Trans: A Memoir, here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2158-trans and listen to her Resonance FM radio show on Souncloud @Suite-212 And buy Huw's seminally titled novel, Chubz: the Demonisation of My Working Arse, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chubz-Demonization-My-Working-Arse/dp/3945247101

In the first of a two-part conversation, Laura and Jack are joined by the writers Juliet Jacques (author of Trans: A Memoir, host of Suite (212) on Resonance FM, and contributor to the Guardian, the New Statesman & elsewhere) and Huw Lemmey (author of Chubz: the Demonisation of my Working Arse, and contributor to the London Review of Books, New Humanist, Huck & elsewhere) so Juliet can tell the story of her rise through the ranks of the mainstream liberal press in the 2000s and 2010s, and how she came to decide she wanted out of journalism. With assistance from her friend Huw, Juliet frames the narrative around the recent comeback of the serial plagiarist charlatan hack Johann Hari, a figure who continues to loom large in British comment journalism long after his broadsheet career came crashing to an ignominious halt in 2011. This is (the first part of) the story of a writer's attempt to smuggle both a better representation of transgender people, and leftist ideas in general, into an insular and elitist industry. Buy Trans: A Memoir here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2158-trans and listen to Juliet's radio show, Suite (212), on Soundcloud @Suite-212 Buy Chubz: The Demonisation of my Working Arse here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chubz-Demonization-My-Working-Arse/dp/3945247101

American writer, publisher and filmmaker Chris Kraus joins Juliet to talk about the difficulties of experimental filmmaking, her work with Semiotext(e)'s Native Agents series, critical responses to her work on Kathy Acker and the pressures of mainstream success. WORKS REFERENCED: Works by Chris Kraus Books CHRIS KRAUS, I Love Dick (1997) CHRIS KRAUS, Aliens and Anorexia (2000) CHRIS KRAUS, Torpor (2006) CHRIS KRAUS, Summer of Hate (2012) CHRIS KRAUS, L.A. Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles (2005) CHRIS KRAUS, Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness (2004) CHRIS KRAUS, Where Art Belongs (2011) CHRIS KRAUS, After Kathy Acker (2017) Films In Order to Pass (1982) Terrorists in Love (1985) Foolproof Illusion (1986) How to Shoot a Crime (1987) Gravity & Grace (1996) Other works PENNY ARCADE, Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews (2009) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=213 Bruce Benderson - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=188 BERNADETTE CORPORATION, Reena Spaulings - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=26 ALBERT CAMUS, L'Étranger (The Outsider) (1942) CHARLES DICKENS, Bleak House (1852-53) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House Marguerite Duras Justin Fashanu - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/05/justin-fashanu-and-politics-memory GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, L'Éducation sentimentale (Sentimental Education) (1869) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_Education Emily Gould Pierre Guyotat - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=51 RAYNER HEPPENSTALL, The Connecting Door (1962) - http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-connecting-door/ SHEILA HETI, How Should Be a Person Be? - http://www.sheilaheti.com/how-should-a-person-be/ Michel Houellebecq I Love Dick (TV series) Gary Indiana THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE, The Coming Insurrection (2007) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=135 Glenn Beck talks about 'The Coming Insurrection' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY7Yvd3cuY0 CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, Goodbye to Berlin (1939) LARS IYER, Spurious (2011), Dogma (2012) & Exodus (2013) - http://spurious.typepad.com/ JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/06/juliet-jacques-trans-a-memoir JULIET JACQUES, You Will Be Free (2017) - http://www.studiovoltaire.org/exhibitions/archive/juliet-jacques/ B. S. JOHNSON, Trawl (1966) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2336211.Trawl Franz Kafka Wyndham Lewis Sylvère Lotringer COOKIE MUELLER, Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302243.Walking_Through_Clear_Water_in_a_Pool_Painted_Black COOKIE MUELLER & VITTORIO SCARPATI, Putti's Pudding (1989) Alain Robbe-Grillet NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 'The Age of Suspicion' - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/03/05/nathalie-sarraute/ Claude Simon MICHAEL SNOW, Wavelength (1967) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBOzOVLxbCE LINDA STUPART, 'Chris Kraus and the Empathetic Exchange of Objects' in MIRA MATTAR (ed.), You Must Make Your Death Public: A Collection of Texts and Media in the Works of Chris Kraus - http://www.metamute.org/sites/www.metamute.org/files/You-Must-Make-Your-Death-Public-Chris-Kraus-9781906496647.pdf Lynne Tillman - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=162 JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT, Self-Portrait Abroad Transparent (TV series) MASHA TUPITSYN, Beauty Talk & Monsters (2007) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=163 Jackie Wang DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side (1991) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=168 Kate Zambreno

Originally published in 1967, Valerie Solanas' incendiary SCUM Manifesto called for a Society for Cutting Up Men and declared war on capitalism and patriarchy. Today, the controversial tract has a complex relationship with contemporary landscapes of feminism and gender politics. Juliet Jacques and Ray Filar join Sophie Mayer to discuss the treatise from critical and contemporary perspectives. Taking a historical view on its problematic elements, they discuss the violence and gender essentialism of the text, as well as Solanas' visions of work and automation and why the text still thrills today. Juliet Jacques is the author of Trans: A Memoir and a phd student in Creative and Critical Writing at University of Sussex. Ray Filar is a writer, editor and performance artist. They tweet @RayFilar. Sophie Mayer is author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema, poet and a member of queer feminist curators Club des Femmes. She tweets @tr0ublemayer. SCUM Manifesto voice: Sam McBean, academic and feminist and queer critic. She tweets @s_mcbean

Juliet Jacques is a freelance writer, best known for the Guardian’s “Transgender Journey”—the first time the gender reassignment process had been serialised for a major British publication. Her column was longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2011. She was included in the Independent’s Pink List for the last four years, and is a regular contributor to the New Statesman. She has also written for Granta, TimeOut, Filmwaves, 3am, the London Review of Books, the New Humanist, the New Inquiry, and many other publications. She is the author of Trans: A Memoir. This is the 400th edition of Little Atoms, and Neil is joined by former host Becky Hogge in conversation with Juliet. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a Guardian column. Interweaving the personal with the political, Trans: A Memoir is a powerful exploration of debates that comprise trans politics in a world where, even in the liberal and feminist media, transgender identities go unacknowledged, misunderstood or worse. It is also a moving and involving portrait of an artist, tracing Jacques’s path to becoming a writer, via her explorations of film, music and art. With award-winning novelist and writer Chloe Aridjis, Jacques discussed the cruxes of writing and identity and the problems of performance and confessional writing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.