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Deviance, Features

Going with the flow

Deviance :: Feature 28 Oct 2008

Lily Dumont: Menstruation is still one of society’s biggest taboos - if you don’t believe me, start up a graphic conversation about mooncups with a bunch of lads and see how far you get. To an extent, this is perfectly understandable. Aside from the fac...

Searching for the Exit

Deviance :: Feature 07 Oct 2008

Slutty McWhore: This month I can barely bring myself to write about erotic massage or my life as a sex worker. I've been working as a masseuse in the United States for well over two years now, and boredom and frustration have finally set in, so much so that it pains m...

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: So Many Ways to Sleep Badly

Deviance :: Books :: Feature 26 Sep 2008

Alma Cork: Imagine the scene: you're taking part in a huge Pride march, an occasion where LGBT people can take to the streets, wave their rainbow flags, and celebrate being out and proud - a glorious gathering of gayness. Only, all of a sudden, the march is confr...

Nothing Like Good Dick?

Deviance :: Film :: Feature 26 Sep 2008

Jenni Cruickshank: A lot of debut writer/directors might find it tricky doing just one new job - what made you decide to take on acting and producing too? Marianna Palka: Originally, I wrote it to be in it – I wanted to be both writer and actress. Then my friend ...

Garry Otton: Radical Historian

Deviance :: Feature 28 Aug 2008

Nine: “Oh my god, he’s so easy to get drunk,” says Garry Otton, of himself. “Half a glass and he’s anybody’s.” We’re having dinner and a bottle of Chablis at the Slug and Lettuce in Edinburgh’s Omni centr...

Lock Up Your Daughters #1

Deviance :: Feature :: Review 28 Aug 2008

Gareth K Vile: Kicking off with a delicious rant that blasts the queer movement for inertia and liberalism, Lock Up Your Daughters summons old school punk energy that drove through queercore and riot grrrl before collapsing in Ladyfest. It’s a hefty read, shar...

Can't buy me love?

Deviance :: Feature 07 Aug 2008

Debbie Martin: The first time I went into a sex shop, it was with a former boyfriend. He persuaded me by degrees. First it was, "Let’s just look in the window." Then, "Let’s buy you some seamed stockings," then, "let’s have a peek at the accessor...

The Healing Hooker

Deviance :: Feature 23 Jul 2008

Slutty McWhore: From John Cleland's Fanny Hill to Jack Kerouac's Tristessa, prostitutes - or sex workers in modern parlance - have often made an appearance in works of fiction. It is, however, Scotland's very own Luke Sutherland who has most impressed me with his depi...

Safety Before Ideology: Comments on the Swedish Model

Deviance :: Feature 19 Jun 2008

Paul Mitchell: Dynamite, gender equality and flat pack furniture! For a country of just over nine million people, Sweden has punched well above its weight in exporting various ideas around the world. Now we have another one coming our way. Britain, among other count...

Tuppy Owens: Interview with a Love Doctor

Deviance :: Feature 17 Jun 2008

Paul Mitchell: Having brazenly signed off on her emails as 'Dr Tuppy Owens, at the Centre of the Erotic Universe', the lady in question smirks when it is suggested that her home in the Highlands, near Inverness, is an odd location for such an accolade. "Don't be so s...

Welcome to Deviance

Deviance :: Feature 21 Apr 2008

Nine: Hello and welcome to the Deviance section. It used to be the LGBT section, but now it’ll be covering a broader range of topics along the gender & sexuality spectrum. And, having conducted numerous behind-the-scenes focus groups, I’m all...

Reclaiming Trans Sexuality

Deviance :: Feature 21 Apr 2008

Alma Cork: It’s partly due to the sexualisation of transsexuality through porn that many transwomen go to great lengths to point out that their gender has nothing to do with their sexuality; that they’re not transitioning for a thrill. Which is not t...

Exasperated Tranny Hits Out at Media Cliches

Deviance :: Feature 01 Apr 2008

Ioana Poprowka: This morning I woke up with a hangover. I took some painkillers. I bought eggs, but couldn't face food. Eventually I had a coffee; I read the paper and listened to the radio, and I wondered what I would have for dinner. For the record, I'm leaning towa...

Namoli Brennet

Deviance :: Feature 01 Apr 2008

Alma Cork: Namoli Brennet, a transgendered artist hailing from Tucson, Arizona, has played hundreds of performances and independently produced and released five CDs on her own label since 2002. Her smooth soulful voice, conjuring images of Tracy Chapman, pairs wi...

The Gay Scientologist: Quentin Hubbard, 1954-1976

Deviance :: Feature 06 Mar 2008

Jack Parson: You might have seen free personality tests. They're offered by the organisation that calls itself a church in almost every country but this one (where this is not legally allowed) - Scientology. These are recruitment points for the organisation. They p...

LGBT History Month

Deviance :: Feature 05 Feb 2008

Hamza K: LGBT History Month, occurring every February, commemorates the past struggles of the LGBT community. It's also a great opportunity to take in a month of movies, tours and assorted events. Whether you want to try speed dating, see a film, or get an insi...

Unadulterated Fun

Deviance :: Feature 05 Feb 2008

Cate Simpson: Nearly half of the people questioned in a US survey last year admitted to cheating at some point in their lives. Surveys like these suggest that monogamy is not as 'natural' as we are led to believe, and with Valentine's Day fast approaching I wondered...

Queer and Punk

Deviance :: Feature 06 Jan 2008

Lucy Nicholas: I am both a queer kid and a punk kid - I go to punk shows and hang out with punks, and I go to gay clubs and hang out with queers. But I don't feel that I properly assimilate into either 'scene'. And while I know this is a good thing, that singular ide...

Notes on Punk

Deviance :: Feature 06 Jan 2008

Imogen Binnie: Look, punk is stupid. It's funny and it's obnoxious and in its way it's art, but it's also often intentionally dunderheaded and it was invented by Malcolm McLaren to sell £100 pairs of bondage trousers.It's funny that you really can't kill it (pu...

A Brief and Incomplete Guide to Queercore

Deviance :: Feature 06 Jan 2008

Nine: Team DreschFormed in Oregon in the nineties, Team Dresch described their sound as "lesbionic punk rock" – word is that the term 'lesbionic' was in fact coined by the judge who reckoned guitarist/vocalist Jody essentially invited her own assault w...