‘Being a Slut Really Means You Are Untouchable’: On Shame, Power and the Reclamation of Words
Trans Joy is Not Enough: Why it is Time to be Angry About Injustice
Trans genocide is happening. I thought by having unashamedly trans joy would show these perpetrators that they cannot tear us down, but this is not the language they speak. They do not speak of joy, or love, or respect. They speak of hate…
Queer Kids and Culture Wars: The Tories and the Return of Section 28
Local authorities were banned from ‘promoting homosexuality’, and schools could not teach ‘the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship’. I went to school between 1982 and 1996. In other words, Section 28 cast its shadow over most of my formative years. There were no known prosecutions resulting from Section 28, but this did not limit the damage it caused…
‘But it Couldn’t Possibly Happen Here!’: A Rebuttal Against Comfortable Thinking After Roe v Wade
This current government don’t see codifying reproductive rights into law as important. After all, when you have potential future PM Liz Truss spouting transphobic statements and reducing women to merely ‘people with cervixes’, it’s obvious how little importance the current government places on any person who has a uterus and requires medical assistance or an identity beyond their reproductive organs…