Review: Bumbling into Body Hair
Everett Maroon, Bumbling Into Body Hair (Booktrope 2012) Cis people have a seemingly endless fascination with transition, particularly the minutia and the deeply personal details. They want to know...
Category: LGBTQ+
Why Liberals Should be Nervous about Santorum’s Super Tuesday
When I heard yesterday that Sarah Palin was already talking about a potential presidential bid in 2016, I saw the writing on the wall: The Republican establishment isn’t even pretending to care...
The Homophobia Diversion in Corrupt Uganda
It is curious that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni cited the protection of children when asked about the newly revived Anti-Homosexuality Bill in his country’s parliament. After all, this is a...
Review: Sex and Disability
Sex and Disability (ed. Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow), Duke University Press, 2012. Sex and Disability is a fascinating collection of essays bringing together two taboo topics, discussed from a...
What Love Looks Like: Seeing Valentine’s Day Anew
Who likes to show Valentine's Day a bit of love? Show of hands. I, for one, never have, because it has seemed to me that squishing expressions of love into one day of socially-approved...
Why does the media still refer to “Bradley” Manning? The Curious Silence Around a Transgender Hero
One of the most persistent threads throughout the two years of imprisonment of accused Wikileaks leaker Private Bradley Manning has been the rumour that he is in fact, she--a transgender woman....
Marriage isn’t everything: the other fights for LGBT rights in Australia
It’s been something of a historic week in the fight for same-sex marriage in Australia. And it’s been a significant year for LGBT rights more generally (not so much, arguably, for Q* or I or any...
Men Call Me Things, Too: “Mother” Is Not the Opposite of “Feminist”
C*nt. Bitch. Whore. Likely you've read these and other epithets, and related threats, flying around the internet recently. If you're not a woman or a feminist-minded blogger, you might not be used to...
We Were Here: An Oral History of AIDS in San Francisco
We Were Here is a superb oral history from the peak years of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco, which at one point was killing over 1,400 people annually. Director and producer David Weissman has...
How Occupy’s (non) power structure enables sexism
The Occupy movement was supposed to be ideal. It had momentum; it had unifying, “universal” potential; most importantly, it was never tied to any one figurehead or charismatic leader. Having a...