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<p><b>Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 26: We Don’t Need More
Heroes with Scorpio</b><br>
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For this episode we talk with Brixton-based textile artist Scorpio
about his life and work. Last summer a quest to learn more about
the 1990s militant queer art collective Homocult led us to
visiting “Iconic Queer,” an exhibition of Scorpio’s work at the
Lambeth Archives. Moved by the power of the work, and sensing
there would be interesting stories behind these pieces, which
focussed on cycles of torment, development, and personal renewal,
we decided to track down Scorpio. The resulting conversation is
about Scorpio’s life along with queer politics, counterculture,
and art of the 1990s, and making space for the misfits who find
sometimes they don’t even feel like they fit within the rules of
alternative milieus. Scorpio is a delightful conversationalist,
whatever words are written here will inevitably fail to adequately
convey the joy and intensity brought to the conversation.<br>
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For this episode we are joined by Olimpia Burchiellaro, who is the
author of The Gentrification of Queer Activism, and a part of the
management committee of the Friends of the Joiners Arms, a
Community Benefit Society that aims to open London’s first
community-run, community-owned, queer pub. This episode was
recorded at the MayDay Rooms podcasting studio,<br>
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Minor Compositions is a publisher of books and media drawing from
autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions
of everyday life: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.minorcompositions.info">https://www.minorcompositions.info</a><br>
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The Minor Compositions podcast is in made in collaboration with
Firefly Frequencies: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fireflyfrequencies.org">https://fireflyfrequencies.org</a><br>
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