Tag: masculinity

Cashing in on ‘Thy sweet love remembered’:Some preliminary thoughts on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 before some historical reflection on its use in queer literary culture in the twentieth century

April 19, 2026

Sonnet 29 is used to provide the title, and is quoted in full as its message, by a non-binary character in prison named by inmates as ‘Mona’ (after Mona Lisa), of John Herbert’s Fortune and Men’s Eyes, an important if not a very good queer play, and in 1971 a minor film, no longer easily … More Cashing in on ‘Thy sweet love remembered’:Some preliminary thoughts on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 before some historical reflection on its use in queer literary culture in the twentieth century

“If you can get the balls in, you will”. This blog prepares to revisit Yorkshire Sculpture Park to re-see their Frink collection after reading Stephen Gardiner (1998) ‘Frink: The Official Biography of Elisabeth Frink’.

October 17, 2024

“If you can get the balls in, you will”. Elisabeth Frink quoted her mother as saying to her of sculptural work  to her official biographer, Stephen Gardiner. She used this to illustrate her love of symbolic and embodied passion, imagined as entirely male, that is quite ‘the opposite of passive … somebody who can be … More “If you can get the balls in, you will”. This blog prepares to revisit Yorkshire Sculpture Park to re-see their Frink collection after reading Stephen Gardiner (1998) ‘Frink: The Official Biography of Elisabeth Frink’.