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the Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Juliette Jakes.

We talked about variations,

her debut collection of short stories on trans experience. Inspired by found material and real-life events,

the book explores the history of transgenderism in Britain from the time of the Oscar Wilde trial to the second decade of the 2000s. We talked about why Juliette chose to use fiction

to address the history of trans, the feelings of responsibility that come with describing the

experiences of characters based on the lives of real people who lived, loved and suffered.

And we also talked about the work of the sexologist Havelock Ellis, who plays a prominent part in one of the stories.

Today's show is brought to you by PTO supporters on Patreon, and also by Verso Books, who have lots of excellent titles that may be of interest to PTO listeners.

One that you might like to check out is A World Without Police, How Strong Communities Make Copes Obsolete by

Gio Ma. This new book from Verso offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police

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Abolition is not a distant dream or an unreachable horizon, but an attainable reality.

Take this book everywhere. Read, share, act, defund, disarm, abolish. That's what Robin Kelly says

about a world without police, how strong communities make cops obsolete. The book is out from

Verso Books this month and part of their Verso Book Club reading.

And now to today's interview. Juliette Jakes is a writer and filmmaker based in London.

She's the author of Raina Hepenstall, A Critical Study, and Trans a Memoir.

Her landmark column on gender reassignment appeared in The Guardian entitled A Transgender

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