Just as I was finalising our Kickstarter Campaign for BURN, my team’s short film about a genderqueer woman struggling with her bisexual partner and her Trinidadian father, Sita Balani published “Is it time to say goodbye to the non-binary in gender?” in Open Democracy. After reading it, to say that ...
A Christian preacher has been recorded screaming homophobic abuse outside a gay politician's house, telling him he will die if he doesn't repent. Former Lib Dem councillor Christian Martin filmed the man branding a wooden cross and screaming "Homosexuality is wrong". The politician runs a film production company that makes gay films, flies ...
Many were shocked when FIFA announced it has decided to end its anti-racism task force, as it had “completely fulfilled its temporary mission.” The 2018 World Cup in Russia has worried many who believe that there are dangerous racist elements at play at Russian football clubs. Many fans have already ...
The author Lionel Shriver gave a speech at the Brisbane Writers' Festival recently outlining how the culture of hypersensitivity was a threat to fiction writing. How, she asked, could authors create fictional worlds and characters if every word they wrote was policed and every plot scrutinised for bias and – ...
“Just because you don’t feel you should need something, doesn’t mean you don’t.” When HBO announced they would be making a movie version of Looking rainbow flags rejoiced around the world. With only two seasons under its belt, the San Francisco based dramedy following a group of gay men was ...
It’s hard not to feel patriotic as the hysteria around the Olympics continues to grow. If you aren’t watching it, then you’re reading about it and if you’re lucky enough to have scored a ticket to Rio itself, then quite frankly I’m jealous. Since the opening ceremony on Friday 5th ...
Land-locked, football mad, the eternal rival to Barcelona, Madrid has a lot more to offer than boulevards and the beautiful game. Here, Rosie Benson takes at look at five must-dos in Spain’s capital city… What to drink… Nobody drinks sangria in Spain anymore, it’s all about Tinto de Verano. The ...
I've been to many university debates and spoken in more than a few. I've heard one man compare gay marriage to Nazism, a 19-year-old claim he was a 'survivor' of abortion and an Israeli student joke about killing more Palestinians. Sometimes outrageous or offensive statements cause shock, more often delayed ...
By Darragh Roche Anyone who thinks taking down a statue of Cecil Rhodes will strike a blow against racism is delusional. The small, loud and opportunistic group of Oxford students demanding that Oriel College remove the statue are wasting everyone's time and will achieve nothing. The statue of a man ...