Kate Nash: ‘People seeing the exploration of gender as a threat to feminism have it wrong’
The British singer-songwriter speaks with GAY TIMES about her lauded fifth album, the need more for “union” between feminists and trans people and the future of her cult queer comedy GLOW.
WORDS BY SAM DAMSHENAS PHOTOGRAPHY BY DORA PAPHIDES FASHION BY RÍON HANNORA MAKEUP BY OONAH ANDERSON HAIR BY YO ALEXXI KRUIZ SET DESIGN BY MACY TRIEU-DINGLE SET ASSISTANTS ERELIN CRAY, DOM BLENCOWE MOVEMENT DIRECTOR LIAM JOHN LIGHTING ASSISTANT JOSH HAMMAREN “Rhonda would be such a good vampire slayer,” Kate Nash (correctly) says of her Britannica wrestler-scientist in GLOW.
Minutes into the Zoom call, Buffy is the main topic of conversation as a result of a) my incredibly fashion-forward season one t-shirt and b) Kate’s shared love of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s pop culture juggernaut, having previously paid tribute to the series’ seminal musical episode, ‘Once More, with Feeling’.
This is all relevant, as the British singer-songwriter goes on to tell me that she was going ‘Going Through the Motions’ like the aforementioned heroine with her fifth studio album.
