"I believe that there are as many gender identities as there are people; all unique, all constantly being explored in conscious and unconscious ways"—Juliet Jacques
In July 2012, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled in a Guardian column. Out of this experience came her Manifesto for Confessional Journalism:
"Never humiliate or sensationalise yourself or others known to you, and do not write anything unkind about your own body, although you may test its...
"I believe that there are as many gender identities as there are people; all unique, all constantly being explored in conscious and unconscious ways"—Juliet Jacques
In July 2012, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled in a Guardian column. Out of this experience came her Manifesto for Confessional Journalism:
"Never humiliate or sensationalise yourself or others known to you, and do not write anything unkind about your own body, although you may test its limits: think of confessional journalism, and everything else in your life, as a form of performance art."
Interweaving the personal with the political, Juliet Jacques explores, in conversation with artist Yishay Garbasz, debates that comprise trans politics and the cruxes of writing, art and identity. The event is chaired by Paul Clinton, an editor of frieze magazine.
This event coincides with the launch of Juliet Jacques’ Trans: A Memoir published by Verso (September 2015). The discussion is followed by a book signing. Book tickets in advance here: https://tickets.tate.org.uk/performancelist.asp?ShowID=5898
For more about the book, visit Verso Books: http://www.versobooks.com/books/1975-trans
Media parter: Frieze
Juliet Jacques is a freelance author, best known for writing A Transgender Journey for the Guardian—which was long listed for the Orwell Prize in 2011. She has also written for Granta, the London Review of Books, Time Out, the New Humanist, The New Inquiry, Filmwaves, 3am and many other publications and websites. She lives in London.
Yishay Garbasz is a Berlin-based British-Israeli artist, graduate of photography BAfrom Bard College in New York 2004. Her 2005 Watson Fellowship resulted in the first book project, In My Mother’s Footsteps (Hatje Cantz, 2009), nominated for the German photo book prize award. Garbasz’s second project starkly documents her body a year before and after gender affirmation surgery shown in the flipbook Becoming (MBP, 2010) and installed in the second largest Zoetrope in the world (Busan Biennale 2010, Korea). Currently, she explores globally the impact of trauma on communities, including Ritual and Reality, which documents the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone, with fall-out reaching Tokyo (forthcoming 2016, Sieveking Verlag). Garbasz has exhibited widely in galleries, museums, around the world and she was recently listed by the Huffington Post as one of Ten Transgender Artists Who Are Changing the Landscape of Contemporary Art. https://www.facebook.com/garbasz?fref=ts
Paul Clinton is a writer and is the assistant editor of frieze and Frieze Masters magazines. He has taught on art and queer theory at Goldsmiths College and the University of Manchester. In 2013 he edited a special issue of the philosophy and critical theory journal parallax on stupidity. He is currently working on an exhibition, also on stupidity, co-curated with Anna Gritz, and due to open in October at Focal Point Gallery.
