The Softer They Come: Elly Tams reviews ‘The Declining Significance Of...
The Declining Significance of Homophobia is, according to its author, a ‘Good News story’ (p xxv). I capitalise ‘Good News’ for reasons that shall become clear. But focusing first on the main thrust of...
View ArticleRejecting home for homeland: Carrie Madison and gender roles in TV’s Homeland
Homeland is a US television series based on an Israeli show, Prisoners of War. It centres on CIA agent Carrie Maddison, played by Claire Danes, who in dramatic opening scenes is told by a source that a...
View ArticleConnecting the Cares: Lines of Flight, Emotional Drives
There were many similarities in our journeys, with repeated meetings across time and place, first at Rutgers University, New Jersey, then London and then Oakland: our queer community – and queer cares...
View ArticleMaking Space for Queer Identifying Religious Youth (2011-2013)
When you think of religion, do you then think of sexuality? Does the connection then become a drastic dis-connection, a sentiment of incompatibility and impossibility, as the mind wanders over abortion...
View ArticleIn memoriam: Shulamith Firestone
On 28th August, Shulamith Firestone was found dead in her Manhattan apartment at the age of 67. Firestone’s 1970 book, The Dialectic of Sex, is a carefully argued and inspiring call for a feminist...
View Article‘Hello my little Barbies’: Nicki Minaj and Masquerade
A few months back a youth work colleague voiced concern about the young women she works with listening to a rising new female rapper, Nicki Minaj. She felt that the lyrics and the image were...
View ArticleWatching A Wedding: Private-Publics
I came to a stop in my tracks. I stood and stared as I began to watch a wedding; a deliberately public event announcing itself, lakeside, on a bright – but still cold – winter day in Canberra. I...
View ArticleBreaking the Mould – it’s child’s play
Resources for teachers and parents about children’s books that challenge gender stereotypes The National Union of Teachers has been working with a small group of primary schools to challenge...
View ArticleEducation, Activism and Practice: Report from the BERA Sexuality & Youth...
November 11th 2011 saw an exciting joint symposium between the Youth studies and Sexualities BERA SIG at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.The initial idea was to encourage health educators, LGBT...
View Article“It Does Get Better”
Fantastic new single from the L Project that aims to raise awareness and money for charities that work to prevent LGBT bullying among young people
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