Writing Gender, Writing Violence: Will Seefried on <i>Lilies Not for Me</i>
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
At the end of Will Seefried’s new feature film Lilies Not for Me (2024), Owen (Fionn O’Shea), a writer, meets up with his former lover, Philip (Robert Aramayo), a doctor determined to cure him of his homosexuality. A subsequent scene shows Philip operating on the distressed Owen, who has protested he isn’t ill. Seefried’s film recovers two overlooked chapters in LGBTQ history, two different procedures meant to “cure” homosexuality: one, like Philip’s, that involves testicle transplants, and another, where gay men had “dates” with young nurses at institutions to learn about heterosexual courtship. A title card will reveal, near the end of the film, that “[a]n unreported number of homosexual men were subjected to testicular transplants in the 1910s and 1920s.” This work has been discredited. Seefried’s film is a critical hit. The film had its premiere in competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and it went on to earn the Prix du Jury at the Univerciné Film Festival. In this interview, Seefried and I discuss the making of this film.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it