Novara FM: On the Frontiers of Deviance
Sita Balani explains how statecraft turned deadly and slick.
Tag: sexuality
Explainers: How Racism Affects Our Sex Lives
Does love transcend everything? What does it mean to fall in love in an unequal world? Dalia Gebrial looks at how race shapes our experiences of sex and desire, and asks: what would it take to create better conditions for loving one another?
Opinion: There Is No Sexual Liberation Without Bisexuals
by Jacob Engelberg
In attempting to assimilate to the straight mainstream, queer liberals have reinforced the gender binary and edged bisexuals out of the struggle. This is counterproductive, argues Jacob Engelberg, as it's we who most trouble oppressive sexual norms.
Feature: Ask Justin: I’ve Never Kissed Anyone. What Do I Do?
by Justin Hancock
I'm a 21-year-old university student with a painful secret: I've never kissed anyone. What do I do? Stop worrying about your friends' judgement and listen to your body, writes sex and relationships expert Justin Hancock.
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: No, Covid-19 Isn’t a Chance to ‘End HIV’
by Ben Weil
Sexual health campaigners have welcomed lockdown as an opportunity for more abstinence and less HIV transmission. This kind of thinking didn’t get us anywhere in the 1980s, and it won’t now.
Long Read: Money Can’t Free Britney – But a Strike Could
by Eleanor Penny
The pop star inhabits a gilded version of the same cage that traps all wage labourers. She also has the same tools to escape, writes Eleanor Penny.
Novara FM: Sex & the State-Machine
On this week's #NovaraFM Ash Sarkar is joined by Joni Cohen to discuss the politics of gender and sexuality in relation to the violence of the state.
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
Long Read: Breaking Up with Monogamy: A Political Project
by Brigitte Vasallo
After acts of infidelity, the fingers of blame point to everything other than monogamy: one of the only social contracts that seems to remain untouchable. Brigitte Vasallo encourages us to question this pact that, she argues, reproduces the logic of capital in the way we love one another.