Charlie Porter

1 week ago | msn.com | Charlie Porter

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2 weeks ago | nssmag.com | Charlie Porter

Masculinity is a question. What makes someone, or something masculine? Why? What happens when those assumptions are subverted? How does it make us feel? How close to the nerve can we sit? These questions have been in the work of Jean Paul Gaultier since the beginning. By the work of Jean Paul Gaultier, I don’t just mean his fashion output since his first collection in 1976. I mean his life’s work: at the age of 5, he turned his teddy bear Nana into his first model, fixing a cone bra to its chest.

1 month ago | ft.com | Charlie Porter

Chantal Joffe does not want you to look at her.

Mar 24, 2025 | lesen.de | Charlie Porter |George Eliot |Stephen King

'A work of genius' Philip Hoare 'One of the best things I've read in many many years' Hilton Als'Beautifully provocative ... the most compelling exploration of life, death, love and resistance that I've read for a very long time' Eimear McBrideA story of loss and grief, sex and love, and refusing to relinquish dreamsHe said he would understand if it was too much for me, that I could leave him, that I was young, I should be living, I said to him, I am living.

Mar 20, 2025 | i-d.co | Charlie Porter

I grew up with the presumption of early death. I was eight years old in 1981, the year of the first reported AIDS deaths. It was around the same age I first knew I was gay. To be a queer kid then was to not just survive entrenched societal homophobia but to face the prospect of dying young. In 1996, anti-retroviral treatments were introduced that made it possible to live a full life with an HIV+ diagnosis. I was 23.