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Claire Biddles is a writer based in
Glasgow, Scotland. She’s a regular contributor to The Wire, The Line of BestFit, and The Singles Jukebox. She writes about pop music, film, and fandomwith a focus on feminist/queer readings and the politics of desire. She alsoedits 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 northof England, delayed queer adolescence, and wanting to be Quentin Crisp.Claire’s Five Songs.
- Ready or Not by A1.
- Yes by Manic Street Preachers.
- I Don't Know What It Is byRufus Wainwright.
- UGH! by The 1975.
- My My My! by Troye Sivan.
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Category Is Books, the only queer book
shop in Scotland, where Claire’s zines are availableYou can also find Claire’s zines here, if
Glasgow is a bit of a walk!Troye Sivan at One Week OneBand, where you can read
Claire's posts about it, as well as her friend Vikram writing about Troye anddelayed queer adolesence.