Lauren J. Joseph

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572 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 22 Jun

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London Review Bookshop Podcast · Lauren J. Joseph & Olivia Laing: Lean Cat, Savage Cat · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

At first I thought I recognized her as a sister spirit, but the party's promoter balked at the idea.

Cindy is not a transsexual, he intoned.

She is a gay man with tits.

Cindy wore a gold sequined mini dress and nude tights.

glossy black shoes and high platform soles, a spike heel and an ankle strap, fingerless gloves and what I guessed was a wig.

Her makeup was not too subtle, purple eyes and heavy liner, fake lashes, blood red lips, extreme contouring and I presume some face tape under her wig line.

One side pulled tighter than the other, dragging her left eyebrow higher than her right and giving her a permanently quizzical look.

We sat with her for a few hours at the back of the club in a cage behind a velvet carton where touring bands locked up their kit.

She was swarmed with boys in booty shorts offering her glasses of Zect and cigarettes, begging for attention.

She referred to them only as my fans, batting them away like fruit flies when they became too demanding.

I fixed Alexander's face and tried to get him ready as best I could.

Around us, all the boys gossiped about a pair of drag queens who were suing each other over the right to use the name Gina Tonic professionally.

Both were claiming to be the original.

The case was going all the way to the federal court, I think someone said.

But the conversation switched back and forth between English and German, so it was hard for me to follow.

I looked at Alex in the mirror and rolled my eyes to discreetly express exhausted superciliousness.

He stared back at me blankly as if this were a situation of my own making.

Cindy suddenly blew her top.

You know who is the real fucking genotonic?

She bawled in outrage.

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