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Published in: TransformationIs it time to say goodbye to the non-binary in gender?
Being defined by a negative speaks more of bureaucracy than of sex or self-expression.
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Published in: TransformationIt’s gender that’s a joke, not queerness
Being genderqueer is not about displaying an intellectual image—it’s a matter of life and death.
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Published in: TransformationThe spectre of female otherness is haunting athletics
Hyperandrogenic competitors are not men, and exceptional women shouldn’t be excluded on the grounds that ‘normal’...
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Published in: TransformationSet in stone? The architecture of colonialism
Can the physical reminders of British occupation ever be seen as home?
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Published in: TransformationOlympians without nations: first-ever team of refugees heads to Summer Games
With 20 million refugees worldwide, the International Olympic Committee announces a new team to make the games more...
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Published in: TransformationWhy I stormed the Tate Modern in protest against violent men
On 13 June over 150 feminist activists mourned the murder and erasure of artist Ana Mendieta. We were there for our...
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Published in: TransformationThis is why using 'they' as a gender pronoun is so important
The 'they' prounoun carries emotional weight, affirms others, and challenges our assumptions about gender.
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Published in: TransformationMeet the sex workers using art to expose truths about the sex industry
Ahead of the opening of Sex Workers' Opera tonight, these arts activists are fighting the battle for hearts and minds.
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Published in: TransformationEnding the silence around German colonialism
At least 300,000 people died at the hands of German colonizers during its empire. These art projects are uncovering...
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Published in: TransformationAre refugees really welcome? Inside the fight to save Berlin's Wagenplatz Kanal
The Berlin Senate is trying to replace a refugee-led activist space with a refugee camp. Why?
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Published in: TransformationHow to decolonise mental health services
UK mental health service providers are still failing to deal with race and ethnicity.
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Published in: TransformationThree myths about sex work that harm everyone
It's not just young girls and big bad wolves. Lies and misconceptions about sex work can hurt women and keep...
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Published in: TransformationStaying alive: Kate Bornstein gives the finger to cancer, suicide, and the gender binary
"Once you break down a huge fucking binary like gender, no other binaries seem to make sense": an interview with the...
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Published in: TransformationDecolonial love: five ways to resist oppression in your relationships
We're never going to get anywhere as long as our economies of attraction resemble the economies of attraction of...
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Published in: TransformationThere's more to being gay than anal penetration
Public portrayals of gay men are highly sexualized, often centred around anal penetration. Sex is shown as...
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Published in: TransformationThe legend of Greenham Common women's peace camp
Greenham was an alternative world, an anti-nuclear protest by hundreds of thousands of women activists. At 'Bringing...
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Published in: TransformationSix key messages about sexual violence in UK activist communities
The Salvage research project listens to survivors of activist sexual violence: here's what they've learned.
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Published in: TransformationThe Chubsters and me: how my fat girl gang queered activism
An edited extract from Charlotte Cooper's new book Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement.
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Published in: TransformationThey cut, we bleed: activists are fighting cuts to domestic violence services
Intimate partner violence kills two women a week, while around the UK refuges are forced to close. Sisters Uncut...
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Published in: TransformationMore than equality: reasons to be a feminist socialist
Equality? Feminist socialism has something better in mind: using power to transform hierarchies.