Histories of Survival: In Conversation with Zackary Drucker
“Humour is the great unifier,” asserts multimedia artist, producer and advocate Zackary Drucker during our recent conversation in Melbourne. “I think it’s a common denominator—a way to reach people that maybe aren’t sympathetic to the cause.”
While she’s a celebrated artist whose photography has exhibited at the Whitney Biennial and whose production credits include the Golden Globe and Emmy-winning Transparent and the Emmy-nominated series of docu-shorts This Is Me, Zackary continues to sell personalised doormats featuring her face via her website (tagline: ‘For only $100 you can wipe your feet on my face for a lifetime’) ...READ MORE
Asis D'Orange Performs 'The Carrot': Online Premiere
“I regard my performance as ritualistic, kind of like a shamanic performance” ...READ MORE
Music for the Doom Generation
Whilst director Gregg Araki is fond of depicting sexual liberation and winking post-modernism, his most fervent love is for song ...READ MORE
Hymns for the Apostate: An interview with Nakhane Touré
“Anal sex is really under-represented in hymns,” Nakhane Touré muses on stage between songs at his gig a day before our interview. The 32-year-old, London-based musician, actor and novelist should know ...READ MORE
Making a Monster: The Creation of Queer Horror
The construction of queerness and horror films as we understand them today are firmly grounded in tangled, coded roots tracing all the way back to the classic monsters in black and white. It’s a cobwebbed queer primordial soup that has generated both the Halloween costumes we wear and the sexual identities we live ...READ MORE
Double-Coded Villains:: Representation at the Nexus Of Disability and Queerness By Alistair Baldwin
Art imitates life, and the queer-coding and cripping-up of baddies on screen is reflective of society’s longstanding propensity to be both homophobic and ableist ...READ MORE





