Queer Activism

The term “intersectionality,” was coined by scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in a 1989 paper, and it’s the notion that oppressions intersect to create compounded, complex experiences of discrimination. That’s hard to get around but don’t worry we keep breaking down that terminology thro ...  عرض المزيد

How are you feeling after the postal vote? Wasn’t that a full on day?! I cried a lot! Did you do anything nice to celebrate? I hope so! Where were you with the postal vote? Questions for you! What do you think of the word queer? Do you love it? Do you hate it? Does it conjure up ...  عرض المزيد

We talked to Schuyler Bailar, the first openly transgender NCAA Division I swimmer, about what issues trans people face and what we can do about it. Caroline Cull came on to tell us about what being asexual means and why more representation is needed, and finally, the United Nati ...  عرض المزيد

In another special edition of The Sleepover Club, we're joined by Vice features editor Hannah Ewens to discuss her recent long read about how the debate over human rights for trans people came to dominate mainstream UK media and divide British feminists. A TERF is a trans-exclusi ...  عرض المزيد

Qu'est-ce que la pansexualité ? Merci d'avoir posé la question ! De plus en plus de personnalités s’expriment sur leur orientation sexuelle. Si beaucoup ne préfèrent pas se donner d’étiquette, d’autres disent ne pas être seulement attirées par un seul genre et se déclarent panse ...  عرض المزيد

Is your gender essential to who you are? If you were a man instead of a woman, or vice versa, would you be a different person? In her new bookThe Metaphysics of Gender (Oxford University Press, 2011), Charlotte Witt found that most people answered that obviously they’d be differe ...  عرض المزيد