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Tag: BAROQUE Guest Editorial

Bloody Barbarella by Molly Williams

11th January 202211th January 2022  Molly Williams

Angry at the sexual harassment women experience, Molly Williams began to paint something disturbing but powerful. The resulting painting, Bloody Barbarella, was her way of speaking back and subverting the violence of misogyny.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: #MeToo, art, Barbarella, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Feminism, Jane Fonda, Molly Williams, painting, sexual harassment, Valley of the Dolls

‘I could go to bed sweetly, pothos calling’ and other poems by Umang Kalra

17th December 202117th December 2021  Umang Kalra

In these lush and gorgeously written poems, Umang Kalra explores relationships, grief and the effect of the internet on poetic expression in the era of Covid-19.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, poems, Poet, Poetry, queer literature, Umang Kalra

Variations by Juliet Jacques

14th December 202115th December 2021  Rebecca Megson-Smith

In Juliet Jacques’ compelling, subversive and vital debut collection of short stories, trans history and the myriad forms of the lived transgender experience are vividly and powerfully conveyed.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Influx Press, Juliet Jacques, queer literature, Rebecca Megson-Smith, trans lives, Variations

What if I am worthless? A review of Jess Arndt’s Large Animals and Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless

3rd November 20213rd November 2021  Frankie Dytor

Our BAROQUE guest editor, Frankie Dytor, experiences a rush of dizzying and disorientating pleasure when reading two of Cipher Press’ books of fiction, Jess Arndt’s Large Animals and Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Alison Rumfitt, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Cipher Press, Jess Arndt, Large Animals, Tell Me I'm Worthless

Interview with author Sara Jaffe: ‘I wanted to think about queerness in a really close and experiential way that precedes a coming-out moment’

2nd November 20213rd November 2021  Anna Kate Blair

Anna Kate Blair talks to author Sara Jaffe about why Dryland is an anti-coming-out novel, writers who have influenced her work, being published by the Queer UK-based Independent publisher Cipher Press, leaning into the awkwardness of writing about adolescence, music and much more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Anna Kate Blair, anti-coming-of-age-novel, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Cipher Press, Denton Welch, Gwendolyn Brooks, Leanne Shapton, Lynne Tillman, Novel, queer literature, queer love, Queer Relationships, Sara Jaffe, swimming

Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds by Jayna Brown

1st November 20211st November 2021  Emma Korantema Hanson

In Jayna Brown’s Black Utopias, Emma Hanson discovers that the speculative practices and philosophies of Black creatives destabilise current understandings of the ‘human’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘existence’, instead redefining them and envisaging futures past from the privileged position of the periphery.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: afrofuturism, Alice Coltrane, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Black Utopias, Black Utopias: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds, Duke University Press, Emma Hanson, Jayna Brown, Octavia Butler, Rebecca Cox Jackson, Samuel R. Delany, Sojourner Truth, Sun Ra

‘Lalita Speaks’ by Basudhara Roy

29th September 202129th September 2021  Basudhara Roy

Dancing milkmaids surround Krishna, but it’s not the Hindu deity they’re excited to be around. In Basudhara Roy’s gorgeous and erotically tinged poem, bodies undress and dissolve to the music of their own longing.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Basudhara Roy, Gopis, Hindu Deities, Hinduism, Krishna, Poetry, queer love

In conversation with So Mayer: ‘The body is not a discrete object’

19th September 20214th October 2021  Frankie Dytor

Frankie Dytor talks to writer, activist and curator, So Mayer, about their brilliant book, A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing, writing as non-linear montage, actively creating the anarchive, the iconic figure of Magnus Hirschfeld, embodiment and more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: A Nazis Word for a Nazis Thing, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Frankie Dytor, Ignota Books, Peninsula Press, queer histories, Queer Studies, QUILTBAG, Saidiya Hartman, So Mayer, trans histories, Ursula le Guin

Baroque Carnival Euphoria by Emily Walters

26th August 202126th August 2021  Emily Walters

Emily Walters’ collage, Baroque Carnival Euphoria, is a gorgeously frothy pink concoction that celebrates the extravagance of Italian frescoes and the Carnivale di Venezia whilst also looking forward to contemporary neon street art and pop culture.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Baroque, Baroque Carnival, Baroque Carnival Euphoria, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Camp, carnival, Eighteenth-century Italy, Emily Walters, Pop-culture, Susan Sontag, Venetian masks, Venice

Three Exorbitant Acts: Eurovision 2008-2013 by Selin Genc

12th August 2021  Selin Genc

Selin Genc takes us on a return trip, economy class, to the Eurovision of the early 00s, where austerity was answered with excessive performances – and a singing turkey!

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Posted in Arts, Film and Media, MusicTagged: Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Camp, Dario Agento, Dustin the Turkey, Eurovision, Eurovision Song Contest, Florin Cezar, Rodolfo Chikilicuatre, Selin Genc, suspiria

Camp on the Cobbles: Sontag, Campness and Coronation Street

30th July 202110th August 2021  Rebecca Savage

The 2019 Met Gala took inspiration from Susan Sontag’s renowned essay, ‘Notes on Camp’, but what of the less glamorous, closer-to-home forms of Sontagion camp? Here, Rebecca Savage looks at the queer origins of Coronation Street, its campy costumes and flamboyant characters.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Film and MediaTagged: Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Bet Lynch, Camp: Notes on Fashion, Coronation Street, Notes on Camp, Rebecca Savage, Susan Sontag

Dryland by Sara Jaffe – a novel that lingers like the memory of adolescence

27th July 20211st November 2021  Anna Kate Blair

Dryland is an ‘anti-coming out’ novel full of shifting surfaces and unplumbed depths, where the reality of relationships and queer desire are alluded to but never fully disclosed, writes Anna Kate Blair.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Anna Kate Blair, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Books, Cipher Press, Dryland, queer literature, Sara Jaffe

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