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007 First Light: The Queer Re-View
007 First Light: The Queer Re-View

James Bond has always been a plaything. For over sixty years, we’ve watched him manipulated by directors, dressed by costume designers, and positioned for our visual pleasure on the silver screen. But the lack of 007 video games in recent times has kept us, the audience, in a more passive role. So what happens when we get James Bond literally in our hands?

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The Spy Who Accepted Me
The Spy Who Accepted Me

What kind of appeal does Bond have for a trans woman? For Delilah Deckert, revisiting the Bond films following her transition has allowed her to reconcile with the past.

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Secrets of the Hurricane Room
Secrets of the Hurricane Room

With the publication of Hurricane Room, Kim Sherwood’s groundbreaking Double O trilogy is now complete. David and Kim thought it was the perfect time to have a SPOILER-filled dive into the trilogy as a whole.

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From No to Never: the Connery charity fundraiser
From No to Never: the Connery charity fundraiser

This year’s charity watchalong is all 007 of Connery’s Bond films, back to back. Join us for some or all of it on 29 and 30 May to help us raise funds to prevent suicide.

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David Lowbridge-Ellis MBE David Lowbridge-Ellis MBE

Queer re-view: Die Another Day

Non-binariness is baked into the very DNA of Die Another Day and not even experimental gene therapy can alter that. Although there are binaries aplenty - a dual mission, fire and ice, a duelling dual showdown over a divided country - the film rejects any earnest attempt to pin it down as one thing or another. Fear contends with desire in a cockfight to the death. Analyse this.

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