Category: Sexuality
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“You Don’t Look Like a Lesbian”: The Reality of Femmephobia and Femme-Invisibility
I’m not sure if I’m safer with hair long enough to pull, or if a shaved head would make them want to prove my woman to me
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Practice What You Preach! – How Vice President Kamala Harris, First Lady Jill Biden and Former First Lady Michelle Obama Showcased Diverse Designers
While fashion might be your passion, the focus of this article are not the outfits, however stunning, but rather the faces behind them.
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Changing Sex on Screen
Contains mentions of sexual, racial, and homophobic violence/discrimination, and spoilers for Bridgerton, I May Destroy You, and It’s a Sin
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On the Remarkable Versatility of Shame
From the onset of puberty, girls are taught to fear their sexual nature and hide their bodies as changes in their physical appearance reveal an ‘impure’ part of themselves.
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Breaking Free from Compulsory Heterosexuality
This self-imposed attraction definitely took a heavy toll on my mental health during my teenage years. That is what comp het can do.
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An interview on the Normalization of Being Asexual
I did not want to be asexual. But it makes sense that I am.
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“I Was A Misogynist”: Lessons from Jameela Jamil’s Red Table Talk
“I was project unlearn. I was a bitter, twisted, angry woman”
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The History of Intersectionality – What Can the Women’s Movement Learn From Its Past?
The women were able to bring their case to trial based on race discrimination, or gender discrimination, but not both
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Queering the Curriculum: We Are Not Something To Be Feared
By schools hiding any traces of homosexuality from their curriculums, it becomes that much harder to gain acceptance from their peers, teachers, and even families.
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“To Art its Freedom” – Finding the Line Between Art and Pornography
“Der Zeit ihr Kunst – der Kunst ihr Freiheit (To every Age its Art, to Art its Freedom)”
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“I’m Not Queer Enough”: Women and Bisexual Erasure
Giulia Calvi has just finished her final year at KCL with a degree in Philosophy, and from this autumn she will be studying for her Master’s in Curating the Art Museum at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She is passionate about history, art, queerness, LGBTQ+ rights, war and family narratives, genealogy and anything else human.…
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Women in Academia: Carol Ann Duffy
Women in Academia is a reading group initiative by the Women & Politics society created to highlight women in (surprise) academia, by reading academic texts written by women in humanities and discussing them on a bi-weekly basis. Last Wednesday we had our first reading group of 2020! This year our focus is to incorporate a…
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The Assumption of Shame in Studying Gay and Bisexual Authors
Olive Franklin is second year English Literature student with a passion for poetry, politics and pale ale’s, she can often be found holed up next to a pile of books that almost-definitely aren’t on her course-list. She is currently Theatre Editor for STRAND magazine. [Featured Image: A stack of thirteen books in rainbow order, from…
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Why the Emergence of Gay Parents on Screen Matters
Lea Buecker is a final year English and Film student. Her passions are texts, theatre, and Tabasco. If she’s not reading a book, she’s probably working on an article, writing a play, or watching cat videos online. [Featured Image: Rachel Berry, protagonist of the hit TV show Glee, holding an ‘L’ over her forehead against…
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