In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, Juliet talks to artist Eirene Efstathiou and curator/writer iLiana Fokianaki, founder of the State of Concept gallery in Athens, about the visual art scene in Greece since the financial crash of 2007-2008, which badly affected the country.
To hear the full episode, subscribe at for as little as £1 per month. Finally, Sam talks about how artists and writers may find themselves co-opted into the culture wars that have subsumed the Labour left's structural and material analyses of British society, and the need to be brave in the face of relentless ridicule and hostility. Carl discusses the difficulties of writing counter-factual literature about the 20 elections given the likely response of the state to a Corbyn victory, and how the actual reaction of the state, the media, the Tories and the Labour right to a left-wing Labour Party was far more savage than that portrayed in Chris Mullen's novel A Very British Coup. In this preview of our subscriber-only episode about how British literature might write about Corbyn's Labour, the aftermath of the 2019 General Election and the 2020s, Juliet talks to novelists Sam Byers and Carl Neville about Ed Luker's 'How Did You Survive January?' and how poetry and film were better able to capture the emotions of 'the Corbyn project'. For a full list of references, subscribe to Suite (212) on Patreon for as little as £1 per month via. Pre-order Variations for £9.99 from the Influx Press website at.
They talk about how Juliet moved on from her ‘Transgender Journey’ series for the Guardian and her memoir, Trans, that came out of it in 2015 why she chose to write Variations as short stories rather than as a novel, or a more straightforward British trans history, or make it as a film the different forms she uses in each story, and her research processes how postmodern approaches have intersected with prejudice to make the compilation of trans histories more difficult how Variations looks at trans people’s complex relationships with industrialisation, law, sexology and media, as well as literature, music and film the context of a British – and global – backlash against trans visibility and rights as she wrote the book the absence of trans authors and authentic trans characters from literary history, the influences on her work and the uses of trans writers telling trans stories and what Juliet might write next. In this month’s Resonance 104.4fm show, former co-host Tom Overton returns to interview Suite (212)’s founder, Juliet Jacques, about Variations, her new collection of stories that tells a potted history of trans and non-binary people in the United Kingdom from the Victorian era to the present, published by Influx Press on 17 June 2021. In this subscriber-only episode on the miniseries, Juliet and Huw talk about the conservatism of British television and their reluctance to commission it critical reactions to the show, and call-backs to the 1980s ‘moral panic’ about homosexuality Davies’ skill in writing for television how the programme looks at the personal impact of HIV/AIDS, and its portrayal of LGBT activism and its relationship with wider British politics and how 'It’s a Sin' is ultimately a show about care, and how it represents models of queer (and straight) kinship.
Davies and broadcast across January and February 2021, 'It’s a Sin' follows a group of friends who meet on London’s gay scene in September 1981, just as the first British cases are being diagnosed, and charts the impact of HIV/AIDS on their sex lives, relationships, families, friendships and careers over the following decade. Following from December 2021’s Resonance 104.4fm show on the cultural impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic with James Butler and Sarah Schulman, Juliet talks to writer Huw Lemmey about Channel 4’s landmark miniseries 'It’s a Sin'.