Tag: Identity
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Under the bridge
Fascinating film interviewing ‘internet warriors’ – those who troll or argue online with either extreme, hateful or passionate comments…disturbing and also interesting how some change and some have contradictory lives. Ian Fondue sent this to me after I posted this list via my friend Mike about those who want to drag you into Internet arguments,…
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BUTCH
I love these portraits by Meg Allen from a series called BUTCH, exploring female masculinity and those “who relate to and claim the term BUTCH”. Really wonderful, and challenging the usual notions of gender and beauty since it includes those who are “bull-daggers, dykes, manly women and female husbands”, “baby butches, young studs, gender queers,…
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Oh cancer, up yours – RIP Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex
Today comes the surprises news of the death of Poly Styrene at 53 from cancer…she was the lead singer of X-Ray Spex which had a very short but influential career in 1976-9, playing Rock Against Racism with the Clash and later reforming and producing their second album. Sad cos she’d just released a solo album…