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Ben : Maybe we are in a second-wave of Gurlesque that is informed by recent notions of radical gender identity and racial tensions in the Black Lives Matter era. First published in 1947, Varsity is the independent student newspaper for the University of Cambridge. Connor discusses the ongoing health implications stemming from the brutal attack on him when his flatmate took a hammer to his head as Connor lay sleeping. From prejudice to pride, this is a story of double-lives, suicides and brave fights that go all the way back to Henry VIII. While some are fortunate enough to survive these horrific attacks, the programme doesn’t shy away from the fact that many aren’t.

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By underscoring that these two men inhabit very different spaces, Dearden’s use of parallel editing raises the question of what kind of connection there could actually be between a man fleeing from the law and one working on behalf of it.Victims include Alex and Becky, a couple preparing to go to court over an unprovoked attack they endured on the streets of Croydon. It has EVERYTHING and a million different ways for members of the community to express their love for our community and admiration for our elders’ strength and perseverance. I also felt that even though there were a wide range of body shapes depicted, there was surprisingly little discussion of fatness and queer fat activism.

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All the comics are in regular panels and are understandable; no avant-garde splotches of color where you can't tell what's going on.But there are histories of the Lavender Scare, Pride flag, and queer uprisings; biographies of Gad Beck, Tove Jansson, and Baron von Steuben; and oodles more about haircuts, birth control, Log Cabin Republicans, and Jussie Smollett. I felt this could have been commissioned better: reach out to those activists and pair them with artists to let them tell their own stories. As Sandra said, it was very white, it was also pretty hetero-centric, and I think, with many more traditionally “academic poets” in the anthology, there are maybe class dimensions that also went into the Gurlesque—that makes sense why it was a sort of “feminist” poetry that when it was about sex wasn’t about economics, maybe more about objectification.