Juliet Jacques

Juliet Jacques is a freelance journalist and writer who covers gender, sexuality, literature, film, art and football. Her writing can be found on her blog at and she can be contacted on Twitter @julietjacques.

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Ideas

The Spectacle of Disintegration

16 May 2013

An interview with McKenzie Wark.

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Trans people and the media: compromise is neither desirable nor possible

25 March 2013

Some thoughts on their relationship in 2013.

Books

Reviewed: Fanny & Stella - The Young Men in Women’s Clothes

18 March 2013

Neil McKenna’s book revisits one of Victorian Britain’s most explosive trials.

Books

Heroines: From Zelda Fitzgerald to Jean Rhys

12 March 2013

An innovative "memoir" reassesses the place of women in modern literature.

Books

Reviewed: Well Done God! Selected Prose and Drama of B S Johnson

25 February 2013

A new volume remembers "experimental" author B S Johnson as far more than a novelist.

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Lars Iyer: "How refreshing it is to be insulted"

04 February 2013

An interview with the cult author about Exodus, the final novel in his trilogy about philosophy and writing.

Society

Trans people, pronouns and language

16 January 2013

When it comes to pronouns or gendered descriptors, it's better to allow people autonomy over their identities rather than impose your own preconceptions.

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Ten silent films you may not have seen (and may want to)

13 January 2013

Talkies took over, but as a form the silent movie stands the test of time.

Art and Design

A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance - review

26 November 2012

The Tate Modern’s new exhibition asks how painting and performance art met – and parted.

Books

Returning to the Commune of Paris

13 November 2012

Lissagaray’s seminal history is reissued – but why now?