AJ McKennaPenny Mordaunt called a press conference to tell us she hasn’t got a penis.I mean, there can be no other headline. Because, she did. Whatever ambiguities might exist elsewhere in Ms Mordaunt’s life — and it’s…Jul 15, 2022Jul 15, 2022
AJ McKennaMordaunt thoughts: can a (sufficiently transphobic) stealth trans woman become Tory leader?Britain is a fascinating country. We pride ourselves on having defeated fascism in the Second World War while ignoring the degree to which…Jul 10, 2022Jul 10, 2022
AJ McKennaGender clinic INaction ruined my genitals. Where’s MY headline?It would appear that it is time to write about genitals again. As a trans woman living in the UK, a country whose media and political…Jun 30, 2022Jun 30, 2022
AJ McKennaOn snipers and my motherOn 9/11, when we had grown tired of news reports repeating the same information and talking heads repeating the same platitudes, my family…Jun 28, 2022Jun 28, 2022
AJ McKennaFranchise Surgery: how Obi-wan Kenobi tries to knit a fractured fandom back togetherI took out a Disney Plus subscription because I wanted to watch The Simpsons and Marvel movies. I had no interest in Star Wars content…Jun 23, 2022Jun 23, 2022
AJ McKenna'Like seeing a celebrity in a dream': Southland Tales and the failure of the Long 90sPart 1: Serpentine Dream Theory (recurrence, dissonance, bricolage)Mar 18, 2022Mar 18, 2022
AJ McKennaThere are easier ways to cheat at sports than pretending to be trans.Another day, another scaremongering article in the Murdoch media about trans and gender-nonconforming women. This time it’s Paula…Apr 21, 2019Apr 21, 2019
AJ McKennaIf the turgid pack of clubbable mediocrities who make up what passes itself off as a free press in…If they had any moral fortitude they would let people know exactly who in the Tory establishment Boris Johnson was trying to reassure with…Mar 13, 2019Mar 13, 2019
AJ McKennaBritain Has No Press Worthy of the NameIf the turgid pack of clubbable mediocrities who make up what passes itself off as a free press in this country had any journalistic…Mar 13, 2019Mar 13, 2019
AJ McKennaJeremy Corbyn and the appeal of the gentle in an age of performative thuggeryIt occurs to me that one of the most appealing things about Jeremy Corbyn, as a political leader, is that literally everybody in the world…Oct 31, 2018Oct 31, 2018
