Tag: LGBT
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It aint no ‘lifestyle’
‘Lifestyle’ I don’t think everyone gets how offensive that word can be. Choosing to drink in the morning and wear Crocs is a lifestyle. Choosing to eat at Nandos only and always wearing a KFC tshirt when you do, is a lifestyle. Reading comics and watching sci-fi is a lifestyle. Being a homophobe and/or going…
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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…
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Future Feminism
Love this video from Antony & The Johnsons, where AnoHni (as she’s known now) does a spoken word piece about the state of the world, feminism and ecology. I’m also a heathen, a witch to some because I didn’t need to be unbaptised, I was never baptised…but she’s right, us queer people are always seen…
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Banksy on the refugee crisis
Hard hitting, but given those images of drowned refugee children (guessing one of the ships that sank near Zuwarah, Libya…a Google image search with those terms is harrowing, and that’s without the children) have been scrubbed off Facebook, I guess a victim of a triggered ‘flagging’, I wonder how long this Banksy image will stay.…