About Face - Jewel's Darl

...she ends up in the cells, reading the writing on the walls for company — hoping she doesn't come out of there in a box. Jewel says she knew two Queens who came out in boxes. Yeah...so Jewel says you gotta be tough kid. You've gotta never lose face.

– Mandy (Richard Hanna) recalls the time Jewel ended up in a cell

For the time, that was quite unusual, to look at people like us not as caricatures, but real people with real lives.

– Georgina Beyer on portraying a transgender character in Jewel's Darl, The Spinoff, 6 March 2023

I used to lie in bed and think when I have my own place, everything will be alright.

– Mandy (Richard Hanna) recalling childhood, part one

Later on, we sat in bed having tea and ginger nuts. It seems, I don't know, funny? Hilarious. Two queens having T and G, for Christ's sakes.

– Mandy (Richard Hanna) discussing her night time routine with Jewel, part one 

The way you took such shit! Shit from those nothings!

– Jewel (Georgina Beyer) scalding Mandy for not standing up for herself, part two

The camaraderie amongst those of like persuasion, the loneliness, the usual relationship dilemmas of independence and identity versus dependence and subordination — all within the dramatic bounds of an already dramatic sub-culture. 

– 'Strokes and Art Attack', Review of About Face, Broadsheet Issue 146, Jan/Feb 1987, page 43