by Ciaran Hunter (he/him) The links for all previous parts can be found at the end of this post We’ve discussed, at length, the limitations and logical pitfalls that abound within the TERF conception of identity. However, I do think there is some merit to… Read More »A Queer Thealogy of Vulnerability (Part 4)
by Ciaran Hunter (he/him) The links for Parts 1 and 2 of this series can be found at the end of this post Earlier we touched on the concept of the Woman as an ideal marked by an almost divine Suffering, and I very briefly… Read More »Suffering and the Woman (Part 3)
by Ciaran Hunter (he/him) The link for Part 1 of this series can be found at the end of this post The Trans person as an existential threat to this category How Trans women threaten the Sacred Suffering How Trans men threaten the Sacred Suffering… Read More »When Suffering Just Isn’t Enough (Part 2)
Image Credits: Niranjan Shrestha. ‘Nepal criminalises isolation of women during their periods’. The Times, 10 August 2017, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nepal-criminalises-isolation-of-women-during-their-periods-jbwl3c8cv. by S.R. (she/her/they/them) TW: rape Ideating the term ‘queer’ The phrase ‘queer’ has made a protracted adventure; in phrases of the definitions, it meant and has touched… Read More »Queering the Woman-Widow: Visiting this Gender as an Oxymoron
by Ciaran Hunter (he/him) The discussion of Trans rights, and especially of the right to self-determination, is becoming ever more visible as it becomes more vicious. A sense of panic and alarm radiates, not just from trans individuals whose lives and rights are being put… Read More »A Trans-exclusionary Thealogy of Suffering (Part 1)
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
