On November 16 + 23, _REMIX will present a unique baroque drag experience, After Violence. Performed by drag queen Rhys’s Pieces, non-binary vocalist Ella Taylor, lute player Sam Brown and electronic musician Benjamin Tassie, After Violence will explore gender, masculinity and male violence from a uniquely queer perspective. Using the music of baroque composer John Dowland […]
My mother has never believed in rules as an adult. “Nobody can tell you what to do with your life. And if they do, they can fuck off” she told me once, sitting at our kitchen table in Stockholm, Sweden. My mother and I came out around the same time. I say ‘came out’ but […]
Before going to see this film I had read up as much as possible about it, even though I was always going to watch it after having seen Desiree Akhavan’s debut Appropriate Behaviour a number of equally entertaining times. Akhavan’s work is creative, entertaining and relatable; notably, it is queer. However, while Appropriate Behaviour is […]
AFROPUNK, the festival that celebrates blackness and everything alternative has returned to London and where else would be better than Brixton to host this culture filled extravaganza. The Afropunk takeover will span over a week from 1st to 8th September with a week of panels, workshops, talks, club nights and live shows! The prodigious lineup […]
Gender preference in unborn children is a common thing. Most people seem to have some idea of whether they want a daughter or son, long before a baby is even on the way. I did. These days I wonder, how healthy is gender preference in unborn children? It’s likely we’ve all heard these sentiments: ‘I […]
“If monogamy is two married people who agree to only have sex with each other, there isn’t much of a history of it.” explains Isabella Rotman . I don’t practice monogamy because.. I don’t want to. Despite this being the case for longer than I can remember, I’m still asked the same reductive questions by friends […]
Gender seems to be the hot topic not only within the LGBT+ community but in the wider society. We’re in a time where Britain’s Next Top Model welcomed their first transwoman and Munroe Bergdorf became an ambassador for the major brand L’Oreal (we’re not going to talk the drama) and everyone is realising that gender […]
I have just been travelling in Venice, it was hot and white. My friends and I walked around the city looking like a portable tv show. There was the guy who was writing a “style blog” that filmed us as we walked passed as was suitably affronted when I asked him to delete it, there […]
On this episode of #DecadesAZ, we talk coming out, youth work and black queerness with teacher and youth work, Martina. The Decades Project is a series focusing on LGBTQAI People of Colour. #DecadesAZ
