In 1993, my mum recorded an album, Sung in my Lover’s Bedroom, a collection of tracks that were explicit acts of feminist & lesbian activism.
The resulting mainstream culture around masturbation (including pharmaceutical organisational practices) has become stale, and girlboss-ily gender essentialist.
For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring RA*UCH, a fashion label by Cierra Rauch.
Everywhere I turned felt like a trap that led to more confusion, doubt and shame. I wasn’t afraid of being gay – I was afraid that I was lying about it.
By virtue of experiencing genital trauma at the hands of surgeons, I cannot help but feel aligned with the intersex community.
With T4T: A Transgender Showcase, for once we’re not coming together to defend our humanity, we’re coming together to celebrate it.
I also think that autistic pleasure is queer, in and of itself. It’s queer in its non-normativity, in its subversiveness, and in its consequent proximity to shame and otherness.
Disabled pleasure knows no bounds, bringing an intimacy that goes beyond romantic love, genitals or penetrative sex.
I got my hands on Macho Sluts as a young dyke. Reading my way through my lover’s collection of erotic literature was an initiation of sorts.
The Huxleys are back for another episode of Queer Fashion Files! This time, they talk about ‘The Winner Takes It All’: a high-camp sport and fashion event.