Juliet Jacques
b. 1981
Revivification: Art, activism and politics in Ukraine (2018) I am a writer and filmmaker based in London. I have published two books, Rayner Heppenstall: A Critical Study (Dalkey Archive, 2007) and Trans: A Memoir (Verso, 2015), with my third, a volume of short stories entitled Variations, due on Influx Press in June 2021. I have also contributed to volumes published by Penguin, Influx Press and others. 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 landmark series entitled A Transgender Journey 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, 3:AM and many other places. I have made two 16mm films – Approach/Withdraw, co-directed with artist Ker Wallwork (2016), and You Will Be Free (2017). I have also directed a documentary entitled Revivification: Art, Activism and Politics in Ukraine (2018), as part of a residency with the Izolyatsia platform…
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