by admin | Oct 4, 2016 | Featured, Opinion
For people from an oppressed group, such as the LGBTQ+ community, it can be hard to come to terms with the idea that they might also be complicit in the oppression of other people. This is most visible when comparing the LGBTQ+ rights movement with the Civil...
by admin | Jun 28, 2016 | LGBTQIA+, News, Opinion
In the early hours of Sunday, June 12th, 2016, a single shooter fired 202 rounds inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida: of 102 people shot, 49 died. Some of the people shot died at once during seven minutes of fire, others during the three-hour...
by admin | Mar 18, 2016 | Equality, Opinion, Sexuality
Most of the advice that get thrown at asexual people runs the gamut from well-meaning but oblivious to contemptuous. Most of it is well-meaning. People are just confused by the idea because of our cultural ignorance. Modern positivity has been teaching us that...
by admin | Dec 11, 2015 | Bisexuality, LGBTQIA+, Opinion
There’s no course on figuring out your sexuality. There’s no Meyers-Briggs-type-test that churns out neat little paragraphs about where exactly you stand on that unpredictable spectrum. Life isn’t that convenient. If you’re still...
by admin | Dec 2, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, Opinion
Silva from Skyfall. Frank Underwood from House of Cards. Humbert in Lolita. Every evil vampiress ever. Catherine from Basic Instinct. All the women from Deep Space Nine’s evil Mirrorverse. The list goes on and on. If you’re bisexual in media,...
by admin | Sep 17, 2015 | LGBTQIA+, Opinion
My childhood was bifurcated. I lived in two worlds. One was home to my identity as an LGBT child. One was in the heteronormative world, where I had to learn to negotiate a world that didn’t value me as I was and ordered me to perform as a heterosexual. Luckily, I...
