GENDER

The problem Indian society has with women is complex and firmly embedded within cultural norms. In working towards change we need to untangle what it means to be masculine in India, writes Rupinder Dhaliwal India has suffered from a long history of gender inequality but sadly this remains very much an issue today. Female infanticide, […]

Being a minority in modern day Britain can be tough. You face transphobia, homophobia, biphobia and heteronormativity/cisnormativity on every level. Because of this, it’s understandable that coming to terms with your identity in a society that still praises those who fit the mould can be quite the challenge – and it can take a serious […]

Do you know how many people you’ve slept with? 10? 20? Well, according to a 2010 study the average number of female sexual partners for men is 9.3. For women, the average is 4.7 male partners. I don’t know anyone who has had sex with .3 or .7 of a person but it does seem […]

Coming out isn’t a new concept to me. In the past 6 years I’ve come out as a bisexual woman, a gay woman, a queer non-binary person, and now, a queer trans man. After all of this, I thought I’d experienced all of the responses a person can get after coming out: excitement, confusion, anger, […]

Back in August, an article was posted on Feminist Current that made me quite angry. The title alone was enough to set me off: Coming out as ‘non-binary’ throws other women under the bus. It shows the reader that what they’re about to read is surely going to be transphobic in nature. The use of […]

We seem to live in a world where some people find it easier to believe in the existence of dragons (they’re just dinosaurs that breathe fire, after all!) than that bisexuality is a valid sexual orientation. Everyone has their own personal idea of what being bisexual is, but what does the term really mean? It’s […]

Harmonie Faerielove strides into Angel’s The York pub with the air of someone who has oozed confidence from the moment of birth. With her arms outstretched she laughs openly, unashamedly filling the somewhat empty pub with the sound of her voice. “I haven’t been here for such a long time,” she exclaims. “Let’s get drinks.” […]

Society believes it has sexuality and gender all figured out. You can either be gay, straight or bisexual. You can be male or female. That all seems simple. Well, this is where society, and maybe you, would be wrong. There is, in fact, a whole underworld of sexualities and genders that most probably haven’t heard […]

Feminist rage is a double-edged sword. Women need it, and have needed it for as long as the world has been an unjust place for us. Without it, key battles for women’s rights wouldn’t have been won. Imagine what would happen if the women’s vote was withheld from the upcoming US election? Someone very kindly […]

Hey pink, I’d love to know how it feels to have been made what seems to be the universal colour of ‘girl’. I’m not really sure how it happened, but anything to do with you is almost always smeared with adjectives like ‘girly’ and ‘feminine’. You’re the colour of flesh; the natural canvas which holds […]