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Watch: Exclusive clip from new trans film Orlando, My Political Biography drops ahead of Irish...
GCN via Yahoo News UK· 13 hours agoIn his new film Orlando, My Political Biography, acclaimed writer and activist Paul B. Preciado...
Garth Risk Hallberg: ‘David Foster Wallace convinced me to change the way I was living’
The Guardian· 17 hours agoMy mother first read me Dr Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat when I was four, and as with much of what I love, I became compulsive about it, wanting to hear it over and over. That led me to Just As ...
Emma Corrin reveals Deadpool 3 producers turned down trainer request: ‘Absolutely not required’
The Independent· 1 day agoThe actor said that their younger self is “now actually being looked after” following a backlash to...
Film round-up: July 4, 2024
Morning Star· 2 days agoBOLD, and totally fascinating, acclaimed Spanish writer and activist Paul B Preciado’s directorial debut documentary explores and celebrates trans identity through Virginia
This documentary about the transgender experience is vital viewing
CityAM via Yahoo Finance UK· 2 days agoTransgender filmmaker Paul B. Preciado uses Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography as a...
‘100% feminist’: how Eleanor Rathbone invented child benefit – and changed women’s lives for ever
The Guardian· 2 days agoA dark blue hardback inscribed with the name of its first owner, Miss M Marshall, and the year of publication, 1924, it cost just £12.99. It has a case to be considered among the most important ...
‘The teachers would refer to boys, girls – and you’: trans philosopher Paul B Preciado on...
The Guardian· 2 days agoAnd I replied, ‘Because Virginia Woolf fucking wrote it for me in 1928.’” The scene takes place in...
Back When Women Were Told to ‘Write Like a Man’
New York Times· 3 days agoFor the midcentury New York intellectuals, Ronnie Grinberg writes in a new book, a particular kind of machismo was de rigueur — even for women. But what...
Paul B Preciado has crossed continents and genders. With Orlando he redefines documentary film
The Irish Times· 3 days agoPaul B Preciado first encountered Orlando as a teenager, at convent school. Virginia Woolf’s novel,...
Rebecca Watson: ‘There’s a simpler way to tell the story. But it would feel less honest to me’
The Irish Times· 3 days agoA subdued hay-hangover vibe in the open-plan office is animated by Watson’s glee at unboxing the...