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Nobel Laureate Physiology, or Medicine 2024
Resident @goldsmithscca & @wpp_writersroom
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OH LA LA!! ‘WH0R3 THEORY’ T-shirts are launching Friday night at @kamaelevenxi in Paris 🫦 Fundraising for Paris-based trans activist group FLIRT @front_transfem, the tee collages quotes from the Midwestern 00s queer anarchist group Bashback!, a micro-manifesto from FLIRT and snippets from zines like FuzzBox and Female Impersonators International. LINK IN BIO, shipping from UK internationally (or buy them tomorrow in Paris 😘) Friday’s reading is orchestrated by all time masterminds @judithslutler @sphdjtl_dchss & the Tongue Ring crew ❤️❤️ come down from 20:30pm 💪💪💪 Swipe to see the extreme glamour of our model @judithslutler xoxo #fundraiser #reading #trans #tshirt #indielit
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Thank you so much to @ladymillicent and @the_parkside_lounge_nyc for an incredible night. Talking with @wayne.koestenbaum was a dream. And thank you to everyone who came out and packed the house. I’m so grateful for these last couple weeks of book tour. Thank you to @pilotpresslondon @semiotexte and @eileen.myles and @donna.the.first for making this all possible. Photo by @zachgrear (whose birthday it was)
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‘Every Sailor Has His Star’ fundraiser t-shirt for D Mortimer. Featuring a hunk from a g@y p0rn found in the depths of Ram Books, a quote from Genet’s ‘Querelle of Brest’ and some butch + f@ggy acoutrements xxx All proceeds go to D Mortimer’s fundraiser :) LINK IN BIO. Dispatching Thursday 22nd October! The quote reads: “Querelle placed absolute confidence in his guiding star. This star owed its existence to the trust the sailor put in it. It was, if you like, as if his confidence in his absolute trust sent out a beam that swept the skies till it reached to his star. Then for the star to preserve its size and splendour, its full power, Querelle had to preserve his trust in it” PS Swipe for some gorgeous poses from @fragile_masculinity xx #tshirt #fundraiser #trans #genet #sailor
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Ten years of Haute Mess. A decade of expression. From creating space for queerness where there wan’t much, to now finding their feet amongst a large community of collectives in London. The crew that has seen out a lot of parties, gathered a few missing memories and christened our Workshop hall, now return to The Cause for this Halloween. We caught up in the clouds with them, to run through the moments that mattered and all the beautiful mess that’s kept them going. A group effort that has held strong for many years and show no signs of cleaning up their act. Landing back in the Workshop, this time they host the likes of Adiel, ISAbella, Hannah Holland and more on the 31st of October. Here’s to keeping it Haute and messy for many more years to come x Video: @saltlakecitypunk Additional footage: @alicepalmx @paulina_fraczek
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*Rendez-vous à 20h30 le vendredi 23 octobre au Kama XI 🩸🩸🩸new @ti55ue designed 4 @front_transfem 💧une soirée de lectures et performances avec @donna.the.first @annesarah_huet @deathwtf @chawlaine @stellakerdraon @sphdjtl_dchss organisée par Tongue Ring @judithslutler + @aodhanmadden avec @sphdjtl_dchss 💫 🦢 Et pour commencer la soirée, rendez-vous à TREIZE à 19h pour la dernière projection du film 'Los locales de Fernanda Laguna' de Lulo Demarco @l__ulo et le finissage de l’événement organisé par @artetxe_atharratze @enter_the_mirror13 @fernanda_laguna55
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More moments from yesterday’s opening @wpp_writersroom of ‘a chorus above’, of works by @lilylavorato and @campbellmcconnell_. Thank you to all who came to see the show and to those who read, to our amazing readers Emily, Jess, Bleet!, Raymond and Donna ~ it was a joy to have you join us 🖊️🎶
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This is not a drill - we are celebrating 10 YEARS of Haute Mess! For the birthday celebration of our enfant terrible, we’re giving ourselves over to absolute pleasure, bringing together erotic nightmares beyond any measure to present THE CLOCKY HORROR SHOW! No riff raff here, it’s a time warp lineup of haute mess veterans and superstars. So on Friday 30th October, come up to the lab @dsuperstore and see what’s on the slab. We see you shivering with antici….pation! Don’t believe it? (come) see it! DJs @acid.sally @hollywarcup @lagoon.lurve @perrin__pp @_relise @s.hivum @subdawn_ Performers @donna.the.first @die.lemma @dannisp00ner @petitelame @tomrasmussen FRIDAY 30TH OCTOBER 9PM-4AM @dsuperstore
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Thank you all who joined us on Friday night for the head-to-head reading knockout of formidable, hilarious and evocative new writing from August residents @r_e_slacker and @donna.the.first! There were laughter and highs, sighs and blows, but ultimately this powerful performance came to a tie ~ how to choose between these champions! It’s been a pleasure to host these two and we can’t wait to see how these texts evolve into the world 🏆🖊️✨
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Me and @hibenfreeman did two performances of Howlers last week to a packed house each night. So many beautiful people who I love and admire in the room. And it was so well received! Blown away by the response. Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket and to those who helped bring it to life @wpp_writersroom @hibenfreeman @jordan__hearns @donna.the.first @lurosecunningham @jacksondeans 📸 @jordan__hearns
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so there’s this thing called having the best summer of all time… and me and my girls? well, we’ve gone pro x
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DING DING DING FRIDAY 11th SEPTEMBER 🛩️💥🏙️ RAYMOND E. SLACKER VS DONNA MARCUS DUKE @ THE WRITER’S ROOM!! 6-8pm
 To celebrate the end of their residency at @wpp_writersroom, heavy weight Raymond E. Slacker takes on skinny weight Donna Marcus Duke in a showdown to the death. Throwing punches from work written over the last month, the readings will be refereed by legendary WPP Official Lu Rose Cunningham, and followed by a mooch, a beer and a closing ki over the loser’s dead body. xoxoxo
 Fight starts 6:30pm SHARP.
 Tickets are free but pleeeeease get one so we know capacity xx link in bio @r_e_slacker @donna.the.first @lurosecunningham
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BIGGEST(!) thank you to all who attended this week’s run of @r_e_slacker and @hibenfreeman’s spectacularly funny, stirring and sexy performance of their new play ‘HOWLERS’ at @wpp_writersroom, with a memorable introduction by wonderful @donna.the.first 🐺🐐📲🎶🔥 From a new moon-led dating app, to its rivalry Satyr app, to the throes and lows of gay love and aspirations for starting something dynamic and new, we had tears and laughter, racing and raving ~ and two huge ovations! Huge gratitude 💞
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