Bow Down: Juliet Jacques on Claude Cahun

Writer, filmmaker and memoirist Juliet Jacques joins Jennifer to discuss Claude Cahun. Born in Nantes in 1894, the surrealist photographer and writer Claude Cahun lived most of her life on the island of Jersey with her stepsister, lover and artistic collaborator Marcel Moore. The work of Cahun and Moore – who resisted the German occupation of Jersey with poems they slipped into soldiers’ pockets – is at once a celebration of queer identity and a testament to the power of the imagination to resist fascism.