Eli Cugini

1 week ago | tribunemag.co.uk | Eli Cugini

On 16 April, the UK Supreme Court judged that ‘sex’, in the Equality Act (2010), refers to ‘biological sex’, which they define as ‘the sex of a person at birth’. This has been welcomed by many journalists and politicians as clarifying, as providing necessary clarity: despite it being a highly specific and vexed judgment, it has been treated as an official state announcement that trans women are men and trans men are women.

1 month ago | dazeddigital.com | Eli Cugini

Sophie Lewis’s latest book Enemy Feminisms faces up to the ugly offshoots of the feminist movement The 2010s and 2020s have proven a vital, scary, and embattled period for feminism, full of both hard-fought gains and terrifying backlashes. They have also included a lot of useful criticism about what feminism should look like: criticisms of white feminism, middle-class feminism, feminisms against trans people and sex workers, corporate and consumerist feminism, and ‘girlboss’ culture.

2 months ago | mid-theory.com | Eli Cugini |Ryan Lackey

For a queer text to be narratively useful to queer people—to be indulgent, excessive, leaky—perhaps it needs to be discarded by someone else first. Popular dating shows are brutal factories of narrative, designed to make their contestants narratively useful through a mixture of incentive, isolation, coercion and selective editing.

Feb 14, 2025 | eliacugini.medium.com | Eli Cugini

Eli Cugini·Follow5 min read·--Substack user and queer veteran zerodoesntsleep has reported that an unnamed suicide victim, whose body was discovered at the Syracuse VA Medical Center on January 27, has been privately identified as Elisa Rae Shupe by an anonymous recipient of Shupe’s suicide note. The deceased had reportedly wrapped herself in a trans flag.

Feb 4, 2025 | dazeddigital.com | Eli Cugini

The film has earned the most Academy Award nominations of any non-English-language film in history – but it has drawn intense criticism from both Mexican and trans critics6 Images This Oscars season the film on everybody’s lips is Netflix’s musical crime drama Emilia Pérez – for both good and bad reasons.