By Sanjana Idnani … After almost two decades following the repeal of section 28, education about the issues faced by LGBTIQA+ individuals has massively progressed. In 2005, Schools Out UK […]
Month: February 2021
Equality is Controversial, Apparently
Written by Lou Gibney Trigger Warning: mentions of transphobia, racism, homophobia … Bias. It’s something we all have – to varying degrees – based on our worldview. The BBC claims […]
LGBT+ Representation: It’s Not Forced Diversity, People Just Exist
Written by Lollie Melton Trigger Warning: discussions of homophobia, transphobia, brief mentions of death … The Baker Thief by Claudie Arsenault is the most brilliant book I have ever read. […]
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Response to the Government Consultation on ‘Toilet Provision for Men and Women’
At a time when the lives of trans people are being discussed unlike that of any other minority group. When their very existence is being ‘debated’, dismissed, and ‘intellectualised’ by […]
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Statement in Support and Solidarity with Kathryn Bristow
On Sunday 7th February 2021, The Daily Mail launched a transphobic attack on Kathryn Bristow, the democratically elected co-chair of Green Party Women, as well as towards the LGBTIQA+ Greens. […]
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Why Trans People are Joining the Greens
Written by Pandora Hughes Trigger Warning – mentions of transphobia … Although I had voted Green on occasions, I didn’t join the Party until December 2019, in the middle of […]
LGBT+ Rights and the Trade Union Movement: Building on a Historic Allyship
Written by Joe Lever (he/him) Trigger Warning: homophobia … It’s difficult to properly dissect modern UK LGBT+ history without at least acknowledging the impact of the Stonewall Riots, from across […]
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A Brief History of Transphobia
By Josh Farrell Trigger Warning – mentions of transphobia … Feminism has a long history, with the advent of Western Feminism being somewhere in the mid-1300s however it wasn’t until […]
Generation 28
Written by Hannah Graeber (she/they) Trigger Warning – homophobia, mentions of AIDS … It can be easy to slip into thinking of a “time when LGBT+ people didn’t have many […]
The Institute of Sexology and the Erasure of Transgender History
Written by Pandora Hughes (she/her) Trigger Warning: Transphobia, mentions of violence, murder … If you’re nursing a prejudice against a persecuted minority and someone calls you on it, what do […]
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