Trailblazers (2024, Sobia Bushra) is a film every queer should watch
Trailblazers is a documentary about Asian Purrrsuasion, the Welsh Ballroom community, and being a queer South Asian in Wales today.
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Sep 1611 min read
Orlando, Our Political Biography
Orlando, My Political Biography (2023, Paul B. Preciado) is a French documentary film that has just finished its limited run in UK cinemas.
Oct 4, 202334 min read
Are TERFs Fascists?
A ‘TERF’ is a ‘Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist’. It is a controversial label used to denote proponents of a specific strain of transphob
Aug 25, 202331 min read
'Our Lady of Anatolia': A Reflection on the Transliminal Spirituality of the Meter Theon
Ought I to say something on this subject also?
And shall I write about things not to be spoken of
and divulge what ought not to be divul
Aug 8, 20235 min read
Transgender Marxism: Personal Reading Thoughts
by Fili Gena This essay first appeared on the Feminist Political Economy and Global Development course blog in June 2023. In the past...
Mar 25, 202313 min read
Throwing a Brick Using Crip Time Theory : An Essay on the Politics of Disability and Temporality
by Charlie Chamber-Randell (@8unnyteef) CHECK THEIR PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT T BOY SWAG How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank...
Feb 22, 202314 min read
Are TERFs Fascists? Part 2: Conspiracy and Patriarchy
Most queerphobic propaganda centres around framing queer people as dangerous, or the fear of some sort of forced queer assimilation of...
Dec 4, 202213 min read
Where are All the Cis Patients in Gender Identity Clinics?
The objective of the trans revolutionary struggle isn’t social tolerance for gender non-normativity, but rather the liberation from gender..
Nov 17, 202215 min read
Tiresias, Hera, Zeus: a Trans* Philosophical Reading
Tiresias, the blind prophet of Apollo of the ancient Greek mythological cycle of Oedipus, is regarded as one the first transgender character
Oct 1, 20228 min read
We don’t “look cis”, you cis-look at us!
By Michel (@blu.issima) Content note: vague talk of gender-based violence, transness, transphobia and trauma This article, structured...
Jul 7, 20228 min read
Surrealism and Beyond Gender
I’ve been wanting to write this for a little while but it is quite a heavy and complex topic so I won’t be diving into too much detail on th
Jun 23, 202210 min read
Queer Liberation is Human Liberation: A Breakdown
By J. S. Gupta The slogan of the day is “Trans Rights are Human Rights”. It is a slogan spoken in support of trans liberation and in...
Jun 3, 202225 min read
THE POVERTY OF BODIES: Commodities, Fetishism, and Nationalism
In this essay we will discuss the issue of the body in relation to nationalistic ideology and human rights, with a focus on the US...
May 5, 202223 min read
Binary Gendered Biology and its Discontents
The traditional arguments that transphobes use to justify their beliefs typically find their (apparent) strength through their appeal to...
May 3, 20223 min read
Questioning the Definition of (Cis/Trans)Gender
Even though the word ‘trans’ ‘bear[s] a myriad of divergent meanings, for the many people who use them,’[1] transgender studies scholars...
Jan 21, 202217 min read
How is Gender Non-Normativity Othered in Medieval Art?
In this essay, I will be referencing Marvels of the East, Mappa Mundi, and The Book of John Mandeville as examples of how non-normative gend
Jan 20, 202223 min read
How do Foucault's Lectures on Abnormality Further 'Abnormalise' Marin le Marcis or 'Hermaphrodites'?
Throughout this essay, I will be analysing a lecture of Foucault’s on ‘abnormality’ in reflection of Marin le Marcis. I will attempt to...
Jan 19, 20224 min read
Conflating LGBTQIA+ with Trans: TERF Island and Transphobia at UK Universities
In case you’re not aware, trans-positive academics and related nerds have dubbed the UK ‘TERF Island’ because of our notoriously...
Jan 17, 20224 min read
Reading List for (Pseudo)Students
Disclaimer: This reading list will be in a state of constant change, much like ourselves (and my gender lol). Films (Films with an...
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