The Rebel Diplomat
In 1916, the diplomat Roger Casement was stripped of his knighthood and executed for his participation in the Easter Rising. His homosexuality, uncovered in the trial, still defines his contested legacy.
11 Articles by:
Huw Lemmey
Huw Lemmey writes on culture, cities, and sexuality.
Bad Company
Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller talk to Juliet Jacques about their podcast and book ‘Bad Gays’, and about the ways in which LGBT history and current politics intersect.
Regulating the Night
The late Christopher Chitty’s Sexual Hegemony is a landmark book on how capitalism created the modern heterosexual family.
The Hounds of Love
A new book on the pioneering but deeply eccentric socialist psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich is full of lessons on the links between the body, trauma, and politics.
Northumbrian Psycho
Eliza Clark’s shlock horror novel Boy Parts is an unreliably-narrated account of violence and ambition, which doubles as a portrait of national dysfunction.
Images of a Workers’ Barcelona
A newly-discovered archive of photos from revolutionary Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War depicts the collectives, institutions and workplaces of a society run by workers themselves.
The Unreliable Narrator
The Lebanese artist Walid Raad’s artworks make complex fictions about the relationships between art, war history, and politics.
The Political Pop Art of Sister Corita Kent
In 1960s Los Angeles, a radical nun created artworks that turned the imagery of American capitalism on its head.
The Arts of Life
Reacting to two different eras of capitalist ‘rationality,’ William Blake and Jesse Darling’s works in Tate Britain use the myth of St. Jerome to celebrate the imperfections of the human body.
Gran Fury
When political leaders ignored the AIDS crisis in 1980s America, a group of radical artists decided to make them listen.
A People’s Photography
Tish Murtha’s camera captured working-class life in the rusting North East of the late twentieth century