by Polly Anna (she/her) “Sorry, love. You can’t come in. You’re not a member.” I am sheltering myself from the rain under the doorway of popular Manchester gay bar G-A-Y, being denied entry by a bouncer who is already looking past me to the next… Read More »The Bi-lemma: Too queer to be straight and too straight to be queer
by E. Jarcy (they/them) **Before beginning, it is worth noting that for the purposes of this piece, the author examined only content on Archive of Our Own to get the largest sample sizes for data and did not inspect fanfiction.net, Wattpad, or other fancontent sites.… Read More »Mind the gap: the dominance of MLM content in fan-created works
by Andrea Zuliani (he/they) Why are women and their positionality/absence in society essential in history? And why particularly in the history of Sino-Western interactions? The history of the Sino-Western commerce in China is characterised not only by the exchange of goods, but also by its… Read More »Women’s domesticity and the reinforcement of masculinity: a spatial gendered analysis of the Sino-Western relationship in Canton during Qing dynasty
by Sultana M.E (they/them/theirs) Most young queer kids have experienced it before, that sinking feeling, like someone tossed 10 pounds of nickels and dimes into your stomach. The panicked moment when your feelings shift away from the identity you’ve been clinging to. Am I wrong?… Read More »“It’s just a phase”: How to forgive yourself for changing
by Wikke Jansen (she/her/hers) If it weren’t for social media, I probably wouldn’t have had half the queer network I do now. I might never have met any of my Indonesian friends from the LGBTQ community there, who started out as WhatsApp friends of Facebook… Read More »Queer Freedoms Online? On the Embodiment of Our Virtual Presence
