A Journey into Academia: Trans*Studies 2
I am yet to unpack my suitcase, or to sleep through a night – but I am back from my trip to the University of Arizona. The conference was, not…
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Makeup is Art Beyond the Binary, Selfies are Self Portraits
Little brown girls grow up knowing there are limitations to their existence and it is their image that is at the core of these limits. You may feel like a…
A Journey into Academia: Trans*Studies
I am packing a bag for a brief stint to Arizona, to attend my first academic conference: Trans*Studies: an International Transdisciplinary Conference on Gender, Embodiment, and Sexuality. I am not…
Do you wear trousers or skirts?
CN: Discussion of gendered bathroom use, mentions of genitalia. I haven’t done the research, this is unsubstantiated supposition, but I’m pretty sure that the majority of the UK uses mixed…
The Binary Box
CN: gender dysphoria, nonbinary erasure, cis normativity. I hate this box that’s carved out of my own skin and trapped within my own mind. The longing I constantly feel for…
Non-Binary:
Brittany created this series on gender identification as part of their A-Level photography project. “Artistic expression across any medium has always been a method turned to by creators to broadcast…
35° 41′ 22.92″ N, 139° 41′ 3.84″ E
CN: mentions of alcohol, sexualisation. You remember the first occasion on which you wore Japanese school uniform. You’re awkward, slightly drunk and it’s late in Tufnell Park when the suggestion…
Research finds 17 types of non-binary people
New research has found that there are only 17 distinct types of non-binary people. While previously it was thought that there were hundreds of different non-binary identities, scientists at the…
Time’s Fool: An Interview with Alys Earl
Trans writing has many brilliant and vibrant voices in memoir, criticism and autobiographical work, but are frequently under-represented in published fiction. Gender-fluid, genre fiction writer Alys Earl deals with themes…
