Tag: Heterosexuality
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Disney and Don’t Say Gay
I’ve been watching several of these videos and they sum up not just what’s wrong in Florida and Disney with the Don’t Say Gay bill they helped fund (as did many other corporations including the new owners of Sky and Dreamworks) but also wider problems – with class, representation, and exploitation. The latter point is…
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How Do You Feel?
I am starting to dread this question ‘How are you?’ because I have two choices: lie and I feel like shit, or answer truthfully and I feel like shit. This video by Michael Henry sums up the dilemma and loneliness of lockdown, and that dilemma. This time of year always has these thorny issues of…
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Grenfell was no accident – middle classes and radicalism
Love this interview from Owen Jones with Frankie Boyle who speaks so much truth to power, about austerity, Theresa May’s failure-as-success, gentrification, and DUP. He’s right especially about Grenfell Tower, which was murder – corporate murder by neglect, although I’d argue the Tories just want the poor to die or go away and it’s more…
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Ancient Misogyny and Ageism online
I love Mary Beard and her work and do not hide that fact, so I love this interview with her by William Dalrymple. I’ve seen her face up to rude people on Twitter and yes, she does get them to back down usually…a force to be reckoned with! Her comments on the sexual violence of…
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Japanese Gaycation
Fascinating look at Japan’s LGBTQ culture with Ellen Page and Ian Daniels. Makes me even more want to go there! Glad they covered Yaoi which I find problematic for several reasons – 1) it’s ‘Boy’s Love’ and tends to focus on what we would say in the UK is ‘Barely Legal’ or underage and 2)…
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It costs me £38,000 for being queer
It’s well known that if you’re a woman, not white, queer/LGBTQ that you have to work harder and longer than cis white straight men. This glass ceiling is there, I’ve seen it in corporates, usually hedged in bullshit like ‘corporate fit’ or the like, and it’s well acknowledged that privilege and entitlement means a less…