Olivia Laing
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938 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Aug
Olivia Laing’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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it becomes sensational it's really interesting to look at the newspapers over the next day the next two days the next three days the narrative and they like
There's a photo of the boy and it's like, ragazzo di vita.
He's a boy of, he's a street boy, exactly the phrase that Pasolini uses in his famous novel.
So it instantly sort of says, well, this is one of the kind of boys he liked and this is what you get.
Yes.
don't
And who understand it absolutely.
comes with
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Yeah, and I think I felt that very strongly, that it was a way for me to think about some of those things.
the experience and Danilo and Nico talk about it.
They exchange sort of, they have conversations about it, but also it's like an unspoken thing between them that they're aware that they're existing as people who are hated.
There's a bit where Nico says, you know, a man can walk on the moon, but I can't hold your hand in the street.
And I think that sense of
intense hosing is so much of the experience of being trans right now in the world.
The sort of emotional affect of the book is very much coming from that same place.
then it's so much
There's a sense of community.
There's a sense of solidarity.
There's a sense of people finding their tribe.
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