Below are some pretty cool books/thinkers/makers/resources/inspirations/beautiful things about art and life that I am very grateful for. For the most part, my influence is found in queer thinking, art and music - whilst I don't think gender and sexuality defines a person, I feel very grateful to the queer ancestors who spoke up and out when so many couldn't, and queer contemporaries who continue to speak up when so many still can't. I hope that my work might be a continuation of this voice, but for now (and to buy me some more time...) I hope this list might inspire/excite/delight you too?

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Words

Gentrification of the Mind - Sarah Schulman

Argonauts - Maggie Nelson 

Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong

The Vermont Collection - Annie Baker 

Rabbit - Sophie Robinson

Really Techno - Julia Bell

Four Men - William T. Vollman

How to be an Artist - Jerry Saltz

Dykes to Watch Out For - Alison Bechdel 

Stonebutch Blues - Leslie Feinberg (self published)

Before We Were Trans - Kit Heyman

For Lovers and Fighters - Dean Spade

Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde

Peanut Butter - Eileen Myles

Bodies - Susie Orbach

Lunch Poems - Frank O'Hara

Hold Your Own - Kae Tempest

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Film

Residu - Merawi Gerima 

Perfect Days - Wim Wender

May December - Todd Haynes

Fallen Leaves - Aki Kaurismäki

10 years with Hayao Miyazaki - Kaka Arakawa 

Close - Lukas Dhont 

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Conversations

John o'donohue in conversation with Kirsta Tippet - On Being 

Mary Oliver in conversation - On Being

Conversation with Jerry Saltz - Longform

Padraig O'Tuama - On Being

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Initiatives & Organisations

Theatrical Intimacy Education 

Dean Space (trans activist, lawyer)

Sarah Schulman, Act Up (queer activist, educator)

Leslie Feinberg (fighter, lover)

Kit Heyman (political historian)

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