ociety denounced her as someone who “frequently shares transphobic discourse on her social media”. “Literally everything stopped,” she says. She now works as a caretaker.
“There’s nothing concrete to sort of grip on to,” says Ara, 59. But she did receive an email from one curator saying that her views on the distinction between sex and gender identity were “out of date”. Ara says: “I mean, this was a straight woman and I’m gay. She was basically telling me that everyone’s gender-fluid.
“It’s not just the trans issue. It’s like you have to be a set thing to work in the art world now. You have to be left-wing, you have to be pro-Palestinian, you have to be blah, blah, blah, and although some of those things I am – it shouldn’t really matter. Art should be a mash-up of discussions and views.”
But, of course, cancel culture is a right-wing fantasy.
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