Juliet Jacques
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Juliet Jacques | |
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.jpg) Portrait of Jacques, 2020 | |
| Born | 1981 (age 44–45) Redhill, Surrey, England |
| Education | The College of Richard Collyer |
| Alma mater | University of Sussex |
| Notable work | Monaco |
| Website | julietjacques |
Juliet Jacques (/ˈdʒeɪks/ JAYKS,[1] born 3 October 1981) is an English writer, journalist and filmmaker. She is known for writing on her experiences as a trans woman,[2] as well as her short fiction and cultural criticism, and also her critical writing on football.[3]
Jacques founded and presents the online Resonance FM art discussion show Suite (212).[4] She appeared on two episodes of the Media Democracy podcast, discussing UK media coverage of trans and non-binary people over the last decade.[5]
Jacques was a founding member of The Justin Campaign, created in memory of Justin Fashanu, later renamed to Football vs. Homophobia as the UK's first major campaign against homophobia in football.[6]
Jacques was born in Redhill, Surrey and grew up in nearby Horley. She attended Reigate Grammar School for two years, then to a local comprehensive school,[7] followed by the College of Richard Collyer in Horsham, West Sussex, studying history at the University of Manchester and then literature and film at the University of Sussex. Jacques completed a PhD in creative & critical writing at the University of Sussex in 2019.[8]
Writing
Jacques began writing about film for a publication called Filmwaves, Cineaste and other film publications, while working in a data entry job in Brighton.[9] In 2007, she published a book on English avant-garde author Rayner Heppenstall for Dalkey Archive Press.
A memoir, entitled Trans, was published by Verso Books in 2015, based on a series of blog posts called A Transgender Journey that Jacques wrote for The Guardian online in 2010–2012, chronicling gender reassignment on the NHS.[10] The audiobook was narrated by trans actor Rebecca Root.[11] Her journalism, essays and art criticism about trans subjects were collected in an anthology, Front Lines, published by Cipher Press in 2022.
Jacques also wrote a regular column for the New Statesman[12] between 2011 and 2015 on literature, film, art and football, and for Frieze, the London Review of Books and other publications, including a section to Sheila Heti's book Women in Clothes, which was published in 2014.
A short story collection, Variations was published by Influx Press in 2021.[13] A second collection, The Woman in the Portrait: Collected Stories 2008–2024, was published by Cipher Press in 2024.[14]
An illustrated novella Monaco was published by Toothgrinder Press in 2023. It was self-described as "a kind of travelogue, a photo album and a set of bitter-sweet love letters ... inspired by André Breton's Nadja and my love of proto-Surrealist poet Guillaume Apollinaire"".[15]
Film
Jacques has made three short films: Approach/Withdraw (2016), co-directed with artist Ker Wallwork; You Will Be Free (2017) about the legacy of the HIV/AIDS crisis, narrated by Anna-Louise Plowman; and Revivification (2018), a documentary about queer and feminist art and politics in Ukraine. She also played herself in Josh Appignanesi's film Female Human Animal (2018).[16]