Activism, affect, identification: trans documentary in France and Spain and its reception

This article explores the documentation of trans activism in France and Spain since the 2000s. The first part addresses questions surrounding the place of affect and narrative in documentary film, particularly in relation to trans issues. The second part o f the article analyses an audience case study from a screening at the International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Barcelona of Valérie Mitteaux's Girl or Boy, My Sex is not my Gender (2011), considering how different viewers respond to the representatio n of trans identities. The article builds on qualitative research whilst extending the exploration of sexuality and gender in previous audience studies to a consideration of documentary film, seeking to provide a more nuanced understanding of what audience claims for identification in politicised contexts mean

Comics, graphic narratives, and lesbian lives

Lesbian comics and graphic narratives have gained unprecedented cultural presence in the twenty-first century. Yet despite the surge in interest in the work of artists such as Alison Bechdel, and despite the existence of a substantial online archive about lesbian comics created by artists, readers, and collectors, relatively little critical attention has been directed to this work. The chapter begins to fill this gap. Taking the Bechdel’s work as its start-and-end point, it provides an overview of major developments in lesbian comics and contextualises them including in relation to the gendered conditions of possibility that define comics culture

Trans youth, science and art: creating (trans) gendered space

This article is based on empirical research which was undertaken as part of the Sci:dentity project funded by the Wellcome Trust. Sci:dentity was a year-long participatory arts project which ran between March 2006 and March 2007. The project offered 18 young transgendered and transsexual people, aged between 14 and 22, an opportunity to come together to explore the science of sex and gender through art. This article focuses on four creative workshops which ran over two months, being the ‘creative engagement’ phase of the project. It offers an analysis of the transgendered space created which was constituted through the logics of recognition, creativity and pedagogy. Following this, the article explores the ways in which these transgendered and transsexual young people navigate gendered practices, and the gendered spaces these practices constitute, in their everyday lives shaped by gendered and sexual normativities. It goes on to consider the significance of trans virtual and physical cultural spaces for the development of trans young peoples' ontological security and their navigations and negotiations of a gendered social world

Symbiotic Futures: Health, Well-being and Care in the Post-Covid World

The "Symbiotic Futures: Health, Well-being and Care in the Post-Covid World" project was jointly conceived by the Innovation School at Glasgow School of Art and the Institute of Cancer Sciences at the University of Glasgow. The project partnership involved a community of experts working across both organisations including the University of Glasgow’s new Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre (ARC). Future experiences is a collaborative, futures-focused design project where students benefit from the input of a community of experts to design speculative future worlds and experiences based on research within key societal contexts. This iteration of the project asked the students to consider what happens in the Post-Covid landscape ten years from now, where symbiotic experiences of health, well-being and care have evolved to the extent that new forms of medical practice, health communities and cultures of care transform how we interact with each other, with professionals and the world around us. The GSA Innovation School’s final year BDes Product Design students and faculty formed a dynamic community of practice with health, wellbeing and care practitioners and researchers from The University of Glasgow and beyond. This gave the students the opportunity to reflect on the underlying complexities of the future of health, well-being and care, technological acceleration, human agency and quality of life, to envision a 2031 blueprint as a series of six future world exhibits, and design the products, services and system experiences for the people and environments within it. In the first part of the project (Stage 1), Future worlds are groups of students working together on specific topics, to establish the context for their project and collaborate on research and development. In this iteration of Future Experiences, the "Health, Well-being and Care" worlds were clustered together around ‘People focused’ and ‘Environment focused’, but also joined up across these groups to create pairs of worlds, and in the process generate symbiosis between the groups. These worlds were then the starting points which the students explored in their individual projects. The second part of the project (Stage 2) saw individual students select an aspect of their Future World research to develop as a design direction, which they then prototyped and produced as products, services, and/or systems. These are designed for specific communities, contexts or scenarios of use defined by the students to communicate a future experience. These Future experiences reflect the societal contexts explored during the research phase, projected 10 years into the future, and communicated in a manner that makes the themes engaging and accessible. The deposited materials are arranged as follows: 1. Project Landscape Map - A report and blueprint for the project that gives a visual overview of the structure and timeline of the project. 2. Stage one data folders - the data folders for stage one of the project are named after the themes the groups explored to create their Future Worlds. 3. Stage two data folders - the data folders for stage two of the project are named after the individual students who created the project

Polyoxometalates in Catalytic Photochemical Hydrocarbon Functionalization and Photomicrolithography

The energetic and mechanistic features of catalytic photochemical oxidation of organic substrates by polyoxometalates and then the applications of this chemistry to catalytic alkane functionalization, microlithography, and catalytic dehalogenation are succinctly reviewed Three sets of experiments that affect these areas are presented, and the future development of catalytic photoredox processes effected by polyoxometalates is discussed The excited state of decatungstate, W_(10)O_(32)^(4-) (1), and the conventional ground-state radical, tert-BuO·, have similar reactivities and lead to similar products upon reaction with various organic substrates. The simultaneous photooxidation of cyclooctane and tetrahydrofuran leads to some cross-coupling product and a complex organic product distribution that is consistent to a large degree with intermediate freely diffusing radicals. Laser flash photolysis measurements (355-nm frequency tripled Nd:YAG output of the heretofore unreported emission of 1 (λ_(max) = 615 nm) establish that the lifetime of the excited state (1^*) is 21 ± 3 ps at 25 °C in 9:1 acetonitrile—water solution

Polyoxometalates in Catalytic Photochemical Hydrocarbon Functionalization and Photomicrolithography

The energetic and mechanistic features of catalytic photochemical oxidation of organic substrates by polyoxometalates and then the applications of this chemistry to catalytic alkane functionalization, microlithography, and catalytic dehalogenation are succinctly reviewed Three sets of experiments that affect these areas are presented, and the future development of catalytic photoredox processes effected by polyoxometalates is discussed The excited state of decatungstate, W_(10)O_(32)^(4-) (1), and the conventional ground-state radical, tert-BuO·, have similar reactivities and lead to similar products upon reaction with various organic substrates. The simultaneous photooxidation of cyclooctane and tetrahydrofuran leads to some cross-coupling product and a complex organic product distribution that is consistent to a large degree with intermediate freely diffusing radicals. Laser flash photolysis measurements (355-nm frequency tripled Nd:YAG output of the heretofore unreported emission of 1 (λ_(max) = 615 nm) establish that the lifetime of the excited state (1^*) is 21 ± 3 ps at 25 °C in 9:1 acetonitrile—water solution