“Heterosexuality isn’t normal, it’s just common.”
Derek Jarman’s inspiring intervention to #queer and question and to overturn the hegemonic ossified assumptions in society.
Derek Jarman. "At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament," London: Hutchinson, 1992, p. 17.
#Pride2026 Happy Pride Month 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
#DerekJarman #poets #filmmakers #TildaSwinton #costumedesigners
June 1st
Happy Pride Month 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ #Pride2026
Derek Jarman: "I am an optimist... we are the community at large, we are not the gay community really, we are actually your brothers and sisters, and sons and daughters, and we are YOU. Our great problem has been to deal with ghettoizing words, that’s why the word queer has come back. We are much wider and more diverse than what the public will imagine. We are much stronger than what people will realize."
#June1st
Happy Pride Month 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
On the 30th anniversary of Derek Jarman's passing, close #friend and collaborator Tilda Swinton reads Jarman’s poem #Chroma, reminiscing on memories in #Beijing.
Derek Jarman wrote this #poem when he was losing his #eyesight and became very interested in #colour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OFcYHTVhNA
#Pride2026 #notforgotten #poets #filmmakers #costumedesigners #gardeners #scholaractivists #queering #intersectionality
Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/25/gardening-art-resistance/
Tilda Swinton on the AIDS crisis and why fluidity isn't frightening
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/tilda-swinton-aids-losses-fluidity
I finished reading #DerekJarman #ModernNature last night, but as I approached the end, I realised ( he has got lots of books) there is another diary that follows on from this, so I've ordered the cheapest second hand one I could find. Awaiting delivery.
I thought a bit about the old days and libraries... I haven't gotten a book out the library for quite a while now.
The book has promoted some family conversations, as it was written 89/90 and includes throwbacks to the past ( WW2 onwards)
Artun
Artun Faliro
The Marginalian [Unofficial]
Robin Ince
Antinous the Gay God
Pretty Gnostic Machine
Advocate.com [Unofficial]
Dope Old Person