Category Archives: Miners Strike

STRAIGHT (HERMENEUTICS) AND BEYOND. (SOME OF THIS IS IRONY).BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on February 7, 2018 by decayetude

{Catalyst: “Heterosexuality” (ed Hanscombe and Humphries, GMP, 1987).} Imagine the following world: the dominant, prevalent sexual orientation was lesbian, gay and bisexual NON lgb people had to occlude their orientation because it was illegal/discriminated against/socially frowned upon. Straight people had to … Continue reading →

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TOWARDS UTOPIA???????????????LINKS:BIENNIAL(S), BREXIT, CORBYN; or NON-LINKS AND FEAR/OTHERING.A GRUESOME PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on July 14, 2016 by decayetude

“The sadness inspired by failing restaurants”. “The smell of mildew in movie theaters” (both from Eugenides, “Middlesex”, 2002) Lewis’s little balcony restaurant(dying gradually, now 6 years gone).https://decayetude.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/img_13071.jpg  .The ABC Cinema, Lime Street:re-used for a spectral exhibition in a previous biennial; and … Continue reading →

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THE DAY I MET DAI DONOVAN.BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on January 4, 2016 by decayetude

{Dai Donovan was the miner who liaised most with  the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners(LGSM) Group during their financial and emotional support to the 1984 Miners’ Strike; he was from the Dulais Valley lodge, near Abertawe/Swansea. In the film, … Continue reading →

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