Highly commended in our category at the British journalism awards! V buzzed
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Highly commended in our category at the British journalism awards! V buzzed
Jennifer Gonnerman investigates the unfolding crisis in New York state prisons, speaking to incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated activists, and striking corrections officers.
Had a lovely chat with Hadley for Vada magazine. We spoke about Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7, the importance of plurality in LGBTQ+ storytelling, why I think podcasts are such a singular medium, and my preoccupation with making work that excavates the (queer) human experience.
Lovely write-up of Criminally Queer in the Sunday Times. In good company alongside Michael Cashman’s new section 28 doc
Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7
Explore the compelling story of the Bolton 7, a pivotal yet underreported legal case that reshaped LGBTQ+ rights in Britain, as Criminally Queer takes a deep dive into this significant miscarriage of justice. From @hughsheehan.bsky.social.
An honour to have the wonderful Justin Bengry be a part of the series.
The podcast chronicles the case itself, the aftermath, and examines the legacy of such policing and prosecutorial campaigns.
The series also acts as a vehicle to more broadly explore the criminalisation of queerness in England, and asks: how far have we really come?
Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7 is out now!
The 5-part series tells the story of seven men from the former mill town in Northern England who in 1998 had their lives turned upside when they were arrested, interrogated and charged with archaic crimes solely because they’d had consensual group sex.
Loved this piece
The notion that we must do everything we can to preserve the possibility that a child might turn out not to be transgender, and that young people can and should be dissuaded from being trans is fucking grim, and rooted in a belief that transness is social contagion that must be contained.
