I wrote this really good post last week about Capote, which I saved in draft form to make it even better later, but it turns out I accidentally deleted it by mistake. Crap. Anyhow, Capote is worth it. If you write, Capote may make you fear momentarily that you’re a manipulative vampire. That’s what the reviewers mean when they say, “This film explores Very Important Issues about writing.” But it’s worth it.

Instead I have a list of links:

First, long overdue roundups: Ange has a new essay up on Mute, “Under the Beach, the Barbed Wire”, about Cronulla, contracts and land. Plus she and Brett Neilson wrote an essay on Nancy and community, up at Culture Machine, “Cutting Democracy’s Knot”.

Max Wolf Valerio is a Chicano FTM who lives in Newcastle. This is his lovely tribute to Gloria Anzaldua.

Yes Species is a collaborative book by the SubRosa Collective and James Pei-Mun Tsang, who wrote a chapter on mediation and visibility in trans/genderqueer communities. Crunchy, hardcore trans theory. A critique of the “12 year old white trannyboy stereotype”. The stuff by SubRosa is just as good; they link Silvia Federici to Assisted Reproductive Technologies stuff like designer babies and the pressure to find the ‘perfect genetic match’.

There’s also a great quicktime movie on Refugia by SubRosa, presenting the Expo Emmagetics — an Expo on ART. The voiceover persists in calling ART ‘art’, resulting in some hilarious, seemingly unintended commentary on ‘art’.

Joan Nestle’s site. I’ve been meaning to link to tihs for a while. Joan is the queen of femme lesbian writing, and has written so many amazing books that I can’t list them all. She’s also reading at the Trans Perve-Formance event next week; she says she’s going to read selections from “A Fem Diary” in her best black slip. If you’re in Melbourne, don’t miss it.

This is an old site, but it’s worht linking to as an amazing archive of trans creative talent, political nous and inspiration: the WhamBamTrans festival. It’s stuff like this that makes me wish I lived in the US. One of the film-makers featured was Tara Mateik, an ‘ersatz scientist’ and faun. His films, although I’ve never seen any of ‘em, look fucken cool. One day when we put on the Great Trans Festival of Political Art, we will invite Tara Mateik to Australia (with about a million other people) and life will be more fun.

Reviews of Turtles Can Fly, citing ‘grace and anger’. More on this later.