‘A word after a word after a word is power.’- Margaret Atwood. For many readers, The Handmaid’s Tale (2010) and Margaret Atwood’s creation of Gilead remains a dystopian society they still think about. It terrifies, when one thinks about the world globally, how close we are to having such a society on a smaller scale.I would say one of the only things preventing its birth is our awareness of our...

''What kind of music are you into?'' A strangely uninspiring question, I find. Not because I don’t like discussing music, or indeed writing about it (although the famous assertion that ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture’ is one I’m very aware of). I just find it difficult to summon up a satisfactory answer. I can’t say ‘anything’ because it tells the enquirer nothing. I alm...

here are four samples of my poetry work and one film essay for your consideration. charlie jasper is a trans artist and poet living and working in new york city.1. subway  there’s something cinematic about the subwayabout passing through darkness andflickering light exposed in little incrementsyou think that the darkness will swallow you upbut then the light teases an exitbut as quick as it com...