Chronically Fabulous: The Critical Role of D&D in an Isolated World
By Josie Quinn: “In a year of isolation and fear, Dungeons & Dragons has not only kept me connected with the outside world, but given all of us the much needed chance to escape our current reality, even if only for a few hours.”
Random Thoughts: Dear 15-Year-Old Me …
Janine Norris: A letter of hope and understanding from the future to her struggling teenage self.
Giving Shame the Finger!
Louise Clare Dalton. “Let’s talk about shame baby, let’s talk about it and me, let’s talk about all the good things and the … oh wait. Hon, let’s not kid ourselves, there isn’t much ‘good’ to speak of when it comes to the shame surrounding sexuality and queerness.
When you see your first lesbian crush thirty years later and she has no idea who you are …
By Hayley Sherman: “Picture the scene. It’s 1991. I’m thirteen, she’s twenty-six. I’m an iffy-looking, greasy-faced, stalkerish teenager and she’s a respectable, married foreign languages teacher. Let’s face it, it was never going to work.”
Random Thoughts: The Mother Explosion
Janine Norris on the pain of coming out to a homophobic family and the explosive impact many years later.
Chronically Fabulous: Disabled and Sexy are not Mutually Exclusive Terms
Josie Quinn explores the cliched representations of sexuality in disabled characters on the big screen and asks why it’s able-bodied actors that are still playing these roles.
New Year, New Queer
Louise Clare Dalton on switching labels from Bi to Queer. But do we even need labels any more?
Confessions of a Lesbian Cliché … I get my eyebrows threaded!
By Kirsten Leah: “I forced myself into a box to fit the cliché, basically. And unlike most clichés relating to lesbian-kind, the butch-femme binary is one that I absolutely detest.”
A Silent New Year’s Eve in a Field in the Middle of Nowhere
By Hayley Sherman: “At midnight, where fireworks exploded around the globe, just twelve hollow clangs of a cowbell sounded somewhere in the distance, then the disappointing toot of a depressed owl. Then more silence. Happy New Year to me!”
Small Steps: Teaching During Section 28 and Beyond
By Janine Norris: “Don’t get me wrong, the insults still come thick and fast. Most recently I have mainly been ‘a short-haired, lesbian bitch!’ My general response to this is something along the lines of ‘You can’t insult me with fact and I’m not always a bitch’.”
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