Juliet Jacques was one of the first trans writers in the UK to
contribute broadly to both British and foreign media, writing
widely about the trans experience. Spanning over a decade, Jacques'
ground-breaking journalism about selfhood, society, art, politics,
freedom, and gender identity, tracks the backlash against emerging
trans rights and the rise of a new and more explicit form of media
transphobia. Front Lines is a seminal collection of writings on
trans and queer art, politics, and media, from a period in which
the relationship between trans and non-binary people and the
British media was exceptionally turbulent. Jacques navigates the
tension between wanting to simply write about art and culture and
needing to counter the dishonest, damaging rhetoric being published
about trans people in virtually every national newspaper in the UK.
'I never believed any journalism was objective, nor that there was
any point in even trying to be,' writes Jacques in her
introduction. 'Above all, activism is needed to fight this, with
journalism to support it: there is no point in pretending to be
objective in our work, as the stakes remain just as high as they
were back in 2010, perhaps even higher... We're entering a new
phase of collective struggle, with new fronts and new tactics
needed: I hope this book can help to inform that.' This crucial
collection asks what we can learn from the last decade and,
importantly, what we can do now. How can new writers take up the
struggle for trans liberation? And what will the future of trans
writing look like?
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