Episode 30
March 25, 2019

Loud in Your Head

Claire Biddles

Hosted by Michael Collins with Claire Biddles

Claire Biddles is a writer based in Glasgow, Scotland. She’s a regular contributor to The Wire, The Line of Best Fit, and The Singles Jukebox. She writes about pop music, film, and fandom with a focus on feminist/queer readings and the politics of desire. She also edits a number of pop culture zines including the series Fuck What You Love, which features writing on pop star crushes by women and LGBTQ+ people.

Claire and Michael talk about boyband fanfiction, the thrill of confrontational femininity, meeting your heroes in a supermarket in the north of England, delayed queer adolescence, and wanting to be Quentin Crisp.

Claire’s Five Songs.

Show Notes.

Follow Claire on Twitter!

Category Is Books, the only queer book shop in Scotland, where Claire’s zines are available

You can also find Claire’s zines here, if Glasgow is a bit of a walk!

Troye Sivan at One Week One Band, where you can read Claire's posts about it, as well as her friend Vikram writing about Troye and delayed queer adolesence.