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Opinion: Queer People Have Had to Rely on Each Other This Year, and Christmas Is No Exception

Harry Gay

In the absence of adequate government support, queer people have created networks, organisations and structures to care for each other throughout the pandemic, writes Harry Gay. Christmas will be no different.

Opinion: Trans People Aren’t ‘Chucking Bricks’, They’re Fighting to Survive

Aimee Armstrong

Framing the 'trans debate' as a culture war obstructs discussions about the political changes we must make to actually improve the material conditions of trans people and cis women alike, writes Aimee Armstrong.

We Asked People at London’s First Trans Pride Why the Event Needed to Happen

Patrycja Borecka

Around 1,500 people gathered in central London on Saturday for the city's first Trans Pride. We talked to attendees about why trans rights need to be centre stage.

5 Reflections on Trans Liberation in Higher Education

Luke Dukinfield

As trans issues become more visible, a reactionary backlash is surging to deride, undermine and repress the voices of trans communities. In this context, it is now more important than ever to examine how our universities have become a key site of contention around trans politics.

Long Read: A Brief Theory of Queer Violence

Sophie Monk and Joni (Pitt) Cohen

Queer oppression is underwritten by structural violence. Sophie Monk and Joni (Pitt) Cohen write that we must find ways of transforming that violence into a force for change.

Queers vs Bisexuals vs Lesbians

On this week's Killjoy FM Ray is joined by Jacq Applebee, Charlotte Cooper and Jacken Waters as they discuss queer lives, 'the scene' and gentrification, and how our understandings of identity have changed

Let’s Try Communism: 10 Responses to ‘Queerness and Precarity’

Jules Joanne Gleeson

Jules Joanne Gleeson responds to Joni Pitt (Cohen) and Sophie Monk's recent Long Read with some thoughts on the family, queer communism and identity within capitalism.

Silence = Death: Orlando, and Why We Can’t Let Racists Hijack Queer Grief

Wail Qasim on the Orlando shootings, the portrayal of Omar Mateen in the media and the way liberal Western values are mobilised to marginalise both muslims and queers.

Novara FM: Trans: In Conversation with Juliet Jacques

On this week's show James Butler and Ash Sarkar talk to the writer Juliet Jacques about pop culture, media representation and life-writing.

Novara FM: Trans feminisms: Roz Kaveney & Ellis Suzanna Slack

On this week's show James Butler is joined by Roz Kaveney & Ellis Suzanna Slack as they discuss trans- and sex worker-inclusive feminisms.

Novara FM: Future Imperfect: LGBT History Month Special

On this week's show James Butler is joined by Juliet Jacques and Huw Lemmey for 'Future Imperfect: LGBT History Month special'.

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