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So Mayer

So Mayer is the author of A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (Peninsula, 2020), Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (IB Tauris, 2015) and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love (Wallflower, 2009). They co-edited Mothers of Invention: Film, Media and Caregiving Labor (with Corinn Columpar, Wayne State, 2022) and Unreal Sex (with Adam Zmith, Cipher, 2021), and their creative and critical writing has appeared internationally in journals and anthologies including Not that Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture (ed. Roxane Gay, HarperCollins, 2017). @Such_Mayer

MAI CONTRIBUTIONS

Mayer meets Bishakh Som to discuss her recent success in the world of graphic novels and the new trans literature.

‘I do not want him to be comfortable. I do not want you to be comfortable … A table may stop. A heart may stop. Something.’

In this kaleidoscopic return to 1996, So Mayer explores emerging queer desire, ‘self’-hood and sex via song lyrics, Britpop heroines, Patrick Swayze and Shinjuku Boys.

We honour the feminist queer work and the lasting legacy of Dr Katharina Lindner, who passed away in early 2019.

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The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.

However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:


Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers

Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey