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Opinion: Navigating Sex and Desire Is a Headfuck When You’re Black, Disabled and a Woman

by The Triple Cripples

We develop our ideas about sex and relationships by observing the world around us. Things get tricky, then, when there's nobody you can relate to.

Downstream: 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”.

Downstream: 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.

Opinion: Judith Butler’s Censorship by the Guardian Shows Who’s Really Being Silenced in the Fight for Trans Rights

by Moya Lothian-McLean

Despite ‘gender critical’ feminists' cries that they are being censored, the Guardian cutting a sizeable chunk of its interview with gender theorist Judith Butler shows which side is really being subjected to the violence of silence in the battle for trans liberation.

Opinion: Liberating Trans People Means Liberating Everyone

by Shon Faye

It is only through solidarity, compassion and radical reimagining that we can build a more just and joyful world, not just for trans people, but for all of us.

Analysis: TERFs Don’t Speak for Women – But Don’t Take It From Me, Look at the Polls

by Ell Folan

Britain’s reputation as TERF Island isn’t wholly unfounded, writes Stats for Lefties founder Ell Folan. The good news, though, is that transphobes are firmly in the minority.

Live: 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 […]

Downstream: ‘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 […]

Ash Wednesday: 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.

GE2019: I Support Survivors of Gender-Based Violence. Here’s Why I Can’t Vote for the Tories

by Ammaarah Zayna

Ammaarah Zayna explains why the Tories' policies amount to shutting doors in the faces of some of the most vulnerable women in our society.

The Lockdown: 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.

The Lockdown: “Just Paint the Walls Pink”: Gender, Prison and Carceral Feminism

Oonagh Ryder speaks to Mo Mansfield, a social justice campaigner and women’s sector professional. They discuss what carceral feminism is, how it has helped to expand and entrench the criminal justice system and how we can move beyond this towards an abolitionist feminism.

Live: The Ciscourse

On this episode of TyskySour Michael Walker is joined by Ash Sarkar and Shon Faye to talk about the clusterfuck that was Channel 4’s GenderQuake debate and the state of trans rights in Britain, everyone’s favourite salted meat and whether anyone actually cares what Germaine Greer has to say anymore.