STICKY FINGERS IN YOUR EARS with Kaiya Waerea & Sophie Paul | #16 Summer Party Special

This month you’re joining us for the launch of Speed Glum Hero, which launched on 17th September at Hackney Showrooms. The night was as always hosted by Donna The First, and we heard readings from Oisin Roberts, Donna Marcus Duke, Kasra Jalilipour, Hesse K, Hasti, Hannah Levene and of course, D Mortimer.

Speed Glum Hero. Read it as an instruction: Speed, Glum Hero. Read it as an assertion of life, like, keep living, go on. It takes this kind of serious play to make any sense of this moment we are living through. This is a pamphlet about subjectivity splintering, substance, and legend. This is a pamphlet about complicity, tenderness, and distress. This is a pamphlet about what it takes to stay gripping to the earth. The only way out is through.

D Mortimer is a writer and artist from London interested in the crip unknown. Their first book Last Night a Beef Jerk Saved My Life was published by Pilot Press in 2021. Mortimer is a current Techne scholar in trans auto fictions at The University of Roehampton. Their work concerns technologies of madness and their doctoral project is entitled Beef Journals: Naming the Uncertain in Transgender Subject Formation.

During today’s episode you were listening to Fergalicious by Fergie and The Beat Goes On by The Whispers.