Brother to Brother
An extract from a work-in-progress play!
"You're asking for it! You're Dying for it!"
New work, I Saw The TV Glow and a meditation on expectations.
B(l)ack on stage!
Hellooo and welcome to the latest edition of If I Speak. First things first is a thing I realised I hadn’t explicitly said in this newsletter, so I’ll borrow...
A Very English Loneliness
An analysis of "All Of Us Strangers" and the gnawing hole at the centre of contemporary gay Englishness.
The Meh, The Bad and the Transmisogynistic
They're doing sexology down at the saloon!
Dungeons and Diets: Antifatness in Baldur's Gate 3
Some thoughts on the approach of Baldur's Gate 3 and games more generally to fatness and the links to antiblackness and antiqueerness.
Barbenheimer: Beautiful gowns, great gowns.
Now I am become Capital...destroyer of art.
Agbaya
100 Boyfriends Mixtape fuckboy summer etc [2023]: I'm currently on a kick of thinking about what it means to make messy art. What does it mean to make work...
Sins of the Flesh
Hey! Sorry for the long wait, there's been a laundry list of reasons but I'd rather just get on with the thing! Initially, I was going to do a newsletter...
RIP
I think the worst thing that being a poet (especially of the political kind) does is trick you into believing that your self-indulgences are somehow...
Getting Into Sonnets
Media Round
CRAWLER and the Erotics of Self-Destruction
Heeey! I finally thought I would try my hand at music crit! And where better to start than with one of my favourite albums of the past few years? Media...
Sneak Peek at The End
Hey! Just a quick one for funsies. Here's a sneak peek from the play (called "The End") that I'm writing (currently in fairly early development). I'm leaning...
Top 3: Love Island and the Material Effects of Desire
Media Round-Up: The Living End [1992] - Trying to watch more response pieces to the AIDS crisis as research for A Thing, and I wish I could get more into...
Moon/Knight
Media Round-Up The Follow [2001] / I Travelled 9000km to Give This To You [2007] /There's Only One Sun [2007] - I find it so fun how Wong Kar Wai will be...
HELLO I'M BACK BAYBEE
Hi! Sorry for being gone so long, shit happens I guess, I won't bore you all with my life story. Also, we can't say I didn't warn ya! (see: the first post)....
Devil in a White Tee
Media Round-Up The Power of the Dog - Did you see how many Oscars that got nominated for? What a convenient opportunity to read all about how it engages with...
NEW POETRY PAMPHLET
HEY! Your next newsletter is coming pretty soon but before that I'm sending this to announce that I've released my first pamphlet/chapbook of poetry! It's a...
JUSTICE FOR NINE DAYS!
I watched a pretty significant number of films this year! A lot of them were pretty good and most of them had been released way before 2021! Anyways fuck the...
Arcane in the Membrane
This isn’t going to be a Review. Not in any conventional sense. You can go to other places to hear people gush about the incredible animation, or how it...