From Royal Cancer Conspiracies to ‘Nut Zero’: 5 Wild Moments From Reform Party Conference
Simon Childs
Not the Nigel Farage Show.
Tag: gender
The Fourth Plinth Is About to Become a Trans Monument
Juliet Jacques
Or rather, an anti-monument.
The Government’s Impartial Trans Healthcare Reviewer Isn’t so Impartial, Colleagues Claim
Rivkah Brown
Oops.
I Would Have Voted for George Galloway, But Then He Said Gay People Aren’t ‘Normal’
Aaron Bastani
‘Prejudice and stigma around gender or sexuality is a red line for me.’
Spare a Thought for Hilary Cass
Gemma Stone
Few have dared to fail so publicly.
How Do I Stop Toxic Masculinity Poisoning My New Relationship?
Sophie K Rosa
I don’t want to be that guy.
Why Is Tristram Hunt Afraid of Trans Books?
Vic Parsons
It’s giving Section 28.
Navigating Sex and Desire Is a Headfuck When You’re Black, Disabled and a Woman
The Triple Cripples
We are hyper-sexualised and desexualised at the same time.
Were Trans People “Born This Way”?
In debates around the rights of transgender people, a charge often levelled at those fighting for trans inclusion is that their arguments rest on a denial of biological facts. Michael Walker speaks to biologist Julia Serano about what so-called ‘gender critical’ thinkers get wrong about sex and gender, and whether trans activists should embrace the argument that they were “born this way”.
How Violence Shapes Our Sex Lives
Is ‘consent’ the only dividing line between good sex and bad sex? Ash Sarkar is joined by Rachel Thompson to discuss her new book Rough, and the politics of pornography, kink, and sex ambivalent feminism.
Judith Butler’s Censorship by the Guardian Shows Who’s Really Being Silenced in the Fight for Trans Rights
Moya Lothian-McLean
Hint: It isn’t TERFs.
Liberating Trans People Means Liberating Everyone
Shon Faye
We shouldn't settle for anything less than the total transformation of society.
TERFs Don’t Speak for Women – But Don’t Take It From Me, Look at the Polls
Ell Folan
Perhaps we aren't marooned on TERF Island after all.
Sarah Everard & Violence Against Women
The disappearance and death of Sarah Everard has shone a spotlight on the epidemic of violence against women in Britain, and has provoked an outpouring from women on social media sharing their own experience of harassment, threats and violence at the hands of men. Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial discuss the case and the response […]
‘A Red Flag and a Silver Dress?’ Interview With Divina De Campo
RuPaul has turned drag into a multi-million dollar industry and a global TV franchise, but has that meant that the art of drag has lost its claim to being punk? Ash Sarkar was joined by Divina De Campo, first runner up from RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 1, to talk about drag, gender identity, and the […]
Are Right-wingers an Oppressed Minority?
Ash Sarkar explores how the language of minoritarian grievance has been appropriated by the most powerful people in political media.
I Support Survivors of Gender-Based Violence. Here’s Why I Can’t Vote for the Tories
Ammaarah Zayna
Prison Island: Prison Expansion in the UK
Back with a new series, hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Nicole, a researcher at Corporate Watch about the British government’s plans for prison expansion, how this will impact people inside and outside prisons and how communities across the country are resisting.