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Russell Christie

‘Queer Tongues’ Documentary

A documentary on London’s LGBTQIA spoken word scene, by Ernesto Sarezale.

2 min readAug 25, 2021

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‘Queer Tongues’ Documentary

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Russell Christie

Sky Space, translated by Christopher Wilkinson

The neuro linguistic programming of tantra is an absolute and totalising trip. Tantra reprogram your brain, reprogram your perceptions. If…

3 min readJan 16, 2021

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Sky Space, translated by Christopher Wilkinson

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Russell Christie

The Basic Space of Phenomena

The Precious Treasury of The Basic Space of Phenomena

3 min readNov 28, 2020

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The Basic Space of Phenomena

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Russell Christie

Debt, Identity, Inheritance and Being Queer

IDQ author Russell Christie has an essay in this quarter’s edition of Lumpen — a journal of poor and working class writing:

2 min readNov 14, 2020

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Debt, Identity, Inheritance and Being Queer

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Russell Christie

Queer Folk: ‘Faerie Fire Dances’ album review.

A stalwart of the UK folk scene, Marc Block would usually spend his summers as a travelling minstrel, performing in festivals across…

3 min readNov 7, 2020

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Queer Folk: ‘Faerie Fire Dances’ album review.

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Russell Christie

Capitalisms and Gay Identities by Stephen Valocchi — book review

This book is a cultural materialist analysis of how the meaning of being gay has changed: the identity taking up different focuses and…

4 min readJun 17, 2020

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Capitalisms and Gay Identities by Stephen Valocchi — book review

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Russell Christie

Shopping Is A Racist Act

Capitalism is institutionally racist. Capitalism invented race for profit. Racial divisions were part of capital’s foundation, they grew…

3 min readJun 14, 2020

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Shopping Is A Racist Act

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Russell Christie

A Short History Of the Queer Poets Society, London 1997–1999

In February 1997, I saw a listing in the gay press looking for contributors who might want to form a spoken word and performance troupe to…

8 min readMay 23, 2020

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A Short History Of the Queer Poets Society, London 1997–1999

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Russell Christie

‘Swimming In The Dark’ by Tomasz Jedrowski — A Minutely Crafted Aesthetic Fantasy

Swimming In The Dark tells the blighted/self-blighted love story of a patchy fling in Poland at the time of Solidarity — Polish union…

7 min readMay 15, 2020

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‘Swimming In The Dark’ by Tomasz Jedrowski — A Minutely Crafted Aesthetic Fantasy

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Russell Christie

Two Viruses, Two Times, Two Cities

I wanted to walk in a plague city, through the streets of a ghost town. But London was not deserted. On Wednesday, people were still going…

7 min readMar 23, 2020

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Two Viruses, Two Times, Two Cities

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Russell Christie

Russell Christie

Working class queer author (The Queer Diary of Mordred Vienna). Travelled a lot teaching English and in edgy employments. Lately got the Buddha ontology.

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