Join Juliet Jacques for an intimate evening at QUEERCIRCLE where she will read from her new book, Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007-2021. Described as “a great pioneer for dark times,” by Owen Jones, Juliet will talk about her work over the past few decade when attacks on trans people have risen to a dangerous intensity, a period in which her work has played a key role in tracking the backlash against the LGBTQIA+ community in the UK and elsewhere. She will speak about both her literary inspirations and political strategies towards creating less toxic public cultures, including those found within LGBTQIA+ communities.
In partnership with Cipher Press
Juliet Jacques is a writer and filmmaker based in London. She has published four books: Rayner Heppenstall: A Critical Study (Dalkey Archive, 2007); Trans: A Memoir (Verso, 2015); a volume of short stories, Variations (Influx Press, 2021); and Front Lines: Trans Journalism 2007-2021 (Cipher Press, 2022). I write short fiction, as well as journalism, essays and criticism on literature, film, art, music, politics, gender, sexuality and football. My work has appeared in The Guardian, for whom I documented my gender reassignment in a series entitled A Transgender Journey (2010-12) as well as London Review of Books, Granta, Sight & Sound, Frieze, Art Review, New York Times, The Washington Post, TimeOut,New Humanist, Five Dials, New Inquiry, The New Statesman, Berfrois, Schirn, Mal, Tribune, New Socialist, Novara Media, 3:AM and many other places.