Book Review: A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner
Emily Horner’s A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend (2010) is glorious. Cass Meyer, bicyclist, pacifist, Quaker, and high …
Tag Archives: not fitting the heteronormative paradigm
The Fifty-Sixth Down Under Feminists Carnival
Welcome to the fifty-sixth month of Down Under Feminists Carnival goodness. I am your host, Chally, and I am glad …
Review: Sapphistries by Leila J. Rupp
Leila J. Rupp, Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women (New York: New York University Rress, 2009). Firstly, I …
My Transsexual Summer, and what goes into diverse representations
My Transsexual Summer recently aired around these parts, a year after it was aired by the UK’s Channel Four. It’s …
Queerness and deception
I’m thinking about the idea that queer people, before they come out or are outed, are deceptive. It’s the idea …
Linksplosion! July edition
Sticking to recent links for once! Peeling Back The Labels: ‘Femme’ By Default by Becca Dickerson at Racialicious: Discovering hard …
Homes and hearts
Yesterday was IDAHO, the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. A friend of mine was giving a speech for the …
Linksplosion!: How we relate edition
thought for the day: why are we still framing the conversation this way? by Anna at the feminist librarian: The …
The direction of desire
We know that it’s a mess when only heterosexual men are considered as having active and desiring sexuality. It’s a …
Wishing for normal lives or satisfying ones
This just about breaks my heart: I would be fine with a gay kid! You can tell mine are going …
The Forty-Sixth Down Under Feminists Carnival
Hello and welcome to the forty-sixth edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival! I last hosted DUFC #12, so I’m …
Sexuality, queerness, and children’s knowledge about themselves
I’ve been having a think about adult habits of disappearing childhood sexuality, and what this means for queer sexualities. You …
In whose favour are the rules of politeness made?
Who gets to determine what constitutes politeness? In whose favour are the rules of politeness made? I’m thinking about rules …
The stories we tell about sexuality
I’m thinking about microcosms, and communal pockets. But mostly about the kinds of stories we tell each other about sexuality. …
‘A Motive More Human’: The Alice Mitchell Case, Part Five
Part One: Introduction Part Two: Agency Part Three: Pathologisation Part Four: Backlash Part Five: Conclusion Responses to Mitchell’s sexual and …
