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None Of Us Is Yet A Robot
The Book
Seven turbulent years. Five radical performances. One landmark publication.
None of Us is Yet a Robot charts artist and performer Emma Frankland's gender transition against a shifting social and political landscape, while grappling with the systematic erasure of trans history.
Richly illustrated with images from the performances and designed in close collaboration with the author, the book is a new experience in itself as well as a vital document of Emma's groundbreaking work in theatre.
Featuring introductions from foremost theatre practitioners, including Maddy Costa and Travis Alabanza, this collection of work is an evocative exploration of a trans experience in twenty-first century Britain.
'Draws on a vital history of trans performance – an emerging canon that may no longer be ignored.'
Morgan M Page, from her foreword
The Podcast
Adventures in Time and Gender
“There’s a direct line through time connecting the ideas formulated by the sexologists to the way trans people seeking medical interventions are treated today. So, say you were going through a Gender Identity Clinic in 2020, you are part of a system of medicalisation and diagnosis with its origins in the late 19th century. And here’s the thing, I wonder..if you understand why the system works in the way it does, where the thinking came from, then maybe you can critique it.”
-suitcase
Emma plays the voice of a Time Travelling Suitcase in this time travelling podcast drama series exploring how sexologists from late 19th/early 20th century Europe shaped the western system of medicalisation and diagnosis navigated by trans and non-binary people in the present day.
written by Jason Barker and directed by Krisha Istha
Welcome to Nightvale
Emma plays the voice of Sheriff Sam in this iconic and much loved podcast.
WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE is a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff's Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events.
Turn on your radio and hide.
“With its uncanny blend of the macabre and the mundane, the news out of Night Vale sounds like what might occur if Stephen King or David Lynch was a guest producer at your local public radio station.”
NY Times