‘Being a Slut Really Means You Are Untouchable’: On Shame, Power and the Reclamation of Words
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…
Violence is Never the Answer Unless Women are the Question: What 2022 Has Taught Us So Far
It is scarcely open to doubt that the system will punish those that lack the money and resources to defend themselves, namely women of colour, lower-class people and transgender men. Furthermore, race and wealth will always override policy…