Opinion: Julie Bindel Can Relax – Lesbians Are Doing Great, Actually
Jess Elliott
While Julie Bindel and her pals at The Lesbian Project preached a transphobic gloom gospel at their launch event last week, joyous queers partied right outside.
Tag: queer
Feature: I Went to a Queer Platonic Co-Parenting Meet-Up
Sophie K Rosa
More and more queer people are partnering up platonically in order to raise kids. Sophie K Rosa reports.
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”.
Novara FM: Sex, Dissidence, Desire
Jonathan Dollimore joins James Butler to talk sex, subversion and truly dangerous knowledge.
Opinion: In Defence of Sex and Parties
Sophie K Rosa
A journalist’s comments about missing parties and sex during lockdown have invited widespread scorn, including from those on the left. Which is weird, writes Sophie K Rosa, because parties are and always have been a site of political resistance.
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.
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.
Shon This Way: Queer in the Media: Politics and Representation With Olly Alexander
Shon Faye is joined by lead singer of pop group Years and Years, Olly Alexander, to discuss his experiences as an out gay man in pop music and the media, his recent BBC documentary about LGBT mental health, “Growing Up Gay”, queer icons, politics and representation.
Long Read: The Hairpin Drop: The Radical Origins of Pride in the UK
Emily Jessica Turner
Radical. Rebellious. Resistant. This is the real history of Pride in the UK.
Long Read: A Story of Queer Riot
Joni Cohen + Sophie Monk
"Police were barricaded inside, the queers outside, on the street. This spatial switch shows the upheaval of power in this clash. For these glorious hours, the sanctuary of the bar was no longer needed."
F.E.M.M.E
On #KilljoyFM, Ray Filar is joined by Victoria Sin, Juno Mac and Travis Alabanza to discuss femme as radical politics, femininities, and whether femme threatens feminism.
Who’s Here for Trans Liberation?
On KilljoyFM, Ray Filar is joined by Mijke van der Drift and Jay Bernard, to discuss being trans, blackness, gender-neutral pronouns, Rachel Dolezal and queer persecution in Chechnya.
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
The Fragility of Legitimacy: A Queer Critique of Hillary Clinton
Alessandro Granato
While Hillary Clinton has put LGBT rights at the forefront of her White House bid, such a move is indicative of her political expediency when it comes to queer struggles.
Long Read: Towards a Queer Crisis: On Capitalism & Compulsory Heterosexuality
Sophie Monk & Joni Pitt (Cohen)
For most of the history of capitalism, heterosexuality has been mandated by law. Sophie Monk & Joni Pitt (Cohen) examine the role of compulsory heterosexuality in capitalism, and consider how it can be disrupted.
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.