Medical gaslighting, illness and community care: Pins and needles
If not for medical gaslighting, maybe Jewel would still be around but unwell, managing her condition just as I manage...
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Beyond ‘ethical’ porn: On capitalism, sex work and authenticity
Desire often raises questions: is my desire for this – this thought, this act, this porn, this person – is...
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Trans people and 1980s psychiatry: Psych wounds and resistance
Living through coercive treatment, the AIDS crisis and homelessness, this author continues to survive the trauma of the psychiatric system.
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Decolonial portraiture by Kali Spitzer: Resilience and resistance
Decolonising portraiture offers empowerment and authentic self-expression for BIPOC and queer individuals.
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Trans identity, sex work and the AIDS crisis: Trans women in conversation
Two trans women share a lively discussion around culture, sex work, the AIDS crisis, gender and intersex identity.
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Queer-affirming death spaces: The bones of my death work
Advocating for queer-affirming death spaces – and creative ways of navigating grief – have empowered this author since leaving a...
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Gloryholes and art institutions: On censorship, queerness and sex work
As a trans Filipino sex worker, I’ve been using my gloryhole to create art with my clients, lovers and fellow...
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Pine Gap to Gaza: Surveillance from stolen Arrernte lands
Pine Gap spy base sits on stolen Arrernte lands, fuelling the forgotten war machine of Australia.
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HIV, ageing and visibility: Becoming gorgeous
I figured I had two years left: one in reasonable health, then one in increasingly terrible health, ending in a...
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Disability justice and community care
I know what it’s like to be seen in my entirety. I've experienced disability justice in action, which is to...
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Kink, pain and mental health: Recovery through submission
It began as a curiosity – to explore gender and masculinity at close range, and frankly to have some really...
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A Q&A with Judith Butler: Gender fear, fascism and TERFs
We should be allied against a right-wing that seeks to undermine feminist, queer, trans, anti-racist movements, to destroy unions and...
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Neuroqueer(ing) pleasure: Autism, sensation and kinship
I also think that autistic pleasure is queer, in and of itself. It’s queer in its non-normativity, in its subversiveness,...
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Disability, pleasure and ageing: The pleasure principle
Disabled pleasure knows no bounds, bringing an intimacy that goes beyond romantic love, genitals or penetrative sex.
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Grief, pleasure and maternal love: Portrait of a mother on fire
I have not known miscarriage or baby loss. But this image, of a mother waking up to exile from her...
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Police brutality and bigotry as a young Aboriginal person: I am not the problem
If you are an Aboriginal child whose parents have been criminalised, police officers see you as a criminal, too.
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Aboriginal women and the revolving door of the prison system
It’s like we are refugees in our own country, on our own land. Hunted by coppers and racists alike, we...
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Incarceration, violence and tenderness: ‘Pariah’ by Zarita Zevallos
Very often, I find that as Black people, we are not allowed to outwardly express our anger and pain. It...
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Invisibility in the queer and disabled communities: Always the ally
My disability and my queerness are both invisible to the naked eye, too murky to be easily defined – so...
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Fucking with cancer: Sex work, libido and chemotherapy
With little energy but plenty of desire during cancer treatment, this author found sex had to be left to the...
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