Our first Culture Radar guest this week is Director at First Take, and Culture Network LCR Board Member, Jay Farley.
Loved: Loving Open Eye in general I love all their stuff – Regenerative farming and poets was especially fantastic, and RAVE ON. The Walker Art Galley – Conversations exhibition and in particular a piece by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley where I got to experience a pro black pro trans space that also generously found space to consider and include me as a white trans person. It was interactive, engaging and liberating. I got to bury my dead name which was very emotional, cathartic and I felt seen.
Looking forward to: A shameless plug! I’m looking forward to the launch of my book A [Cupbard] full of Tomboys at Rough Trade Records Liverpool on 19th March which I will perform as a TRANS industrial techno meets uplifting /dance dance beat poetry experience. I’ll be accompanied by Meave aka Quieting who will bring the sounds and sequencers. We are connected through our mutual relationship with being trans and will be exploring how that has reshaped how we experience time. We both lived for decades outside of our true selves! What happened in those years?? So it’s about loss and missing time, but also celebration and joy of finally getting to be ourselves. It’s gonna be FUN and inclusive for all 🙂
Trivia: I D-locked myself to a hat stand in the Swiss Embassy once.