Four artists – Carsten Jost, Surgeon, Imaginary Softwoods and Timnah Sommerfeldt – have pulled out of playing at the 2023 edition of Japan’s The Labyrinth festival, after attention was drawn to comments on trans issues made by co-founder and booker Russell Moench, who also goes by the nickname Russ Monk.
Moench has shared his opposition to the trans rights movement in public posts on social media, including sharing the writing of anonymous gender-critical accounts that have…
