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July 31, 2026, 11:43 AM - 7 min read
Trump’s offhand remarks often invoke disgust and paranoia against perceived enemies – for example, toward immigrants, whom he has repeatedly described as dangerous criminals. These same patterns emerge in the Trump administration’s formal communication regarding trans issues.
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July 13, 2026, 01:07 PM - 6 min read
The 1986 reform decriminalised consensual anal intercourse – subject, naturally, to the age of consent being respected and with protection for those without capacity to consent. Other forms of male homosexual activity could now occur without the risk of arrest. Female homosexual activity wasn’t mentioned because it had never been criminal.
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June 9, 2026, 12:42 PM - 5 min read
June is Pride Month, celebrated the world over by LGBTQIA+ individuals as a reclamation of strength. But there’s a much longer history to this emotion. The circumstances of “pride” change over time, and the way this emotion is felt is directly tied to the social, cultural and political reality of different eras, and different places.
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May 13, 2026, 08:57 PM - 2 min read
“Conversion practices are built on a lie, the lie that LGBTQ+ people need to be fixed, that there is something wrong with who they are. And there is, of course, nothing to fix, there is nothing to cure, and there is no one to change,” said Hadja Lahbib, the European commissioner for equality.
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April 2, 2026, 05:07 PM - 7 min read
Muholi uses the non-binary pronouns they/them/their and prefers the term “visual activist” over “artist” or “photographer”. This makes it clear that their work is explicitly political and is intended to bring about change through transforming how Black LGBTIQ+ people are portrayed and perceived. Their photographs are a powerful meditation on Blackness and being. They summon a new and resistant form of visual language to expose and contest racist violence.
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January 15, 2026, 06:24 PM - 6 min read
Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions that affect a person’s eating behaviours. They can harm both physical and mental health.
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September 23, 2025, 01:48 PM - 7 min read
The parallels between McCarthyism and Trumpism are stark and unsettling. In both eras, dissent has been conflated with disloyalty. How far could this go? Like the McCarthy era, it partly depends on the public reaction to Trump’s tactics.
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July 23, 2025, 03:19 PM - 6 min read
Using cells from a donor egg doesn’t create three ‘parents’. And while DNA is important, it is not the defining feature of rainbow families.
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May 2, 2025, 07:31 PM - 2 min read
The decision comes in the wake of a UK Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman in equalities law; football and netball follow suit.
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April 14, 2025, 03:03 PM - 6 min read
This declaration will provide a constitutional basis for denying the gender identities of transgender people, as well as ignoring the existence of intersex individuals, who are born with atypical sexual characteristics that do not align with binary conceptions of male and female.
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