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Anti-porn sentiment isn’t new, but this current wave has created a platform for new puritans, reminiscent of other moral panics.
“Our strength as queer, disabled people is our rage.” We chat to the team behind Oh, How We Laughed*, an anthology by queer, disabled writers.
I recently read that it’s a ‘canon’ event for queer girls to have a huge blow-out break-up with a close girl friend from high school.
Zinaida Gippius lived a rather queer life – between their affairs with women, highly publicised threesomes, cross-dressing, and more.
As a trans Filipino sex worker, I’ve been using my gloryhole to create art with my clients, lovers and fellow sex workers.
Throughout the years, I have learned to love the parts of myself I was taught to hate. In my queer, trans and disabled body, I have found joy.
What I do know about myself is that I’m neurodivergent, queer, that I feel deeply, and that I have a doubt-driven, unshakeable desire to be loved.
Pine Gap spy base sits on stolen Arrernte lands, fuelling the forgotten war machine of Australia.
I think a lot of people who are put in the margins are naturals at storytelling. I guess we have to be in a way, otherwise who else would tell our history or our truths in a way that honours where we come from?
“The bond between girl and horse is more like the passionate friendship described in Victorian lesbian narratives.” Monica Nolan chats to Alex Creece.
Like a lover, ChatGPT responds instantly to my touch. I give input; it puts out. But I don’t know if my conflicted feelings are enough to call it queer.
“Those small acts of support – say, a parent affirming their child’s self-expression – create a profound ripple effect.” Rae White chats to Alex Creece.
I figured I had two years left: one in reasonable health, then one in increasingly terrible health, ending in a withering, undignified, exhausted death.
I think I knew deep down that if I shaved my head, it would be curtain call for Straight Girl.
For this month’s Queer Fashion Files, we’re featuring multi-hyphenate queer artist Kira Puru.
Queer-inclusive clinics tend to be a luxury afforded to those in big cities, but we all deserve a sense of normalcy in sexual health checks.
“Who is the future already happening to?” Cavar, a transMad author, chats to Keene Short.
I was referred to a gynaecologist, where after a brief physical exam, she concluded my pelvic floor had more strain on it than the Nixon administration at the height of Watergate.
I know what it’s like to be seen in my entirety. I’ve experienced disability justice in action, which is to say that I’ve experienced love.
But why did I resonate so deeply with Troye Sivan’s fantasies? Why does the concept of hooking up with men who don’t identify as queer appeal so much to me?
“There’s nothing more pathetic than being at a party, somebody asking what you do, and saying, ‘I’m a poet.'” Eileen Myles chats with Alex Creece.
Did receiving praise for embodying gender norms and heterosexual narratives in dance manifest into falsely identifying as straight?