Intersections
The home of our Intersections coverage, looking at the cultural world through the intersecting lenses of gender, race, economics, class and sexuality. Check out our feature writing, opinion pieces, interviews, and our regular Love Bites column on the things, people and places our writers love the most.
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Features
Love Bites: Cutting Hair, Coming Together
This month's columnist finds care and community in hair cuts Read more »| 14 Jun 2022 -
Features
Friendships in flux: On re-thinking relationships
Friendships are complicated – they form, fall apart, and come together again. One writer considers navigating these changes Read more »| 14 Jun 2022 -
Features
How the cost of living crisis is impacting creative workers
We’re already feeling the financial difficulties offset by the cost of living crisis – this is no different for those in creative industries. We speak to creative workers about how this economic instability is impacting their work Read more »| 12 May 2022 -
Opinion
Love Bites: Running with my Pegasus
This month’s columnist reflects on running through life’s ups and downs Read more »| 02 May 2022 -
Features
Love Bites: On Okra Stew
This month's Love Bites columnist reflects on maternal love and okra stew Read more »| 28 Mar 2022 -
Opinion
Love Bites: Navigating Memories in Heartbreak
This month’s columnist reflects on the memory of a partner following a break-up Read more »| 15 Mar 2022
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Opinion
All is Not Lost: Rethinking failure in activism
In activist movements, failings are difficult to come to terms with. But failure may be more complex – and a little more hopeful – than we thought Read more »| 10 Mar 2022 -
Features
If you're a young carer, apply for the Young Carer Grant
Young carers play a hugely important role in society but their work often goes overlooked – even by their friends and teachers. The Young Carer Grant can help these carers access some of the life opportunities their peers take for granted Read more »| 04 Mar 2022 -
Features
Queerantine: a non-binary journey through the pandemic
As we approach two years since the UK’s first lockdown, one writer explores their non-binary identity during the pandemic Read more »| 28 Feb 2022 -
Opinion
Love Bites: Online Connections
This month's columnist reflects on online connections and long-distance internet friendships Read more »| 22 Feb 2022 -
Features
Checking Boxes: How opinion writing warped identity politics
First-person opinion writing has dominated British media in the last decade. Our departing Intersections Editor reflects on the impact this writing has had on identity politics in culture and in themselves Read more »| 10 Feb 2022 -
Features
Beacons In The Dark: The power of radical hope
As another year rolls around and everything is still on fire, one self-described radical pessimist reflects on the power of hope during times of despair Read more »| 20 Jan 2022 -
Opinion
Love Bites: On Audio Equipment
This month’s columnist measures their love of audio storytelling through her haul of podcasting equipment Read more »| 19 Jan 2022 -
Opinion
Love Bites: Conversations with Exes
This month's columnist reflects on why they've felt unlucky in love through conversations with exes Read more »| 15 Dec 2021 -
Opinion
Love Bites: Self-Love Selling Out
This month's columnist explores the crisis of commodified self-love Read more »| 25 Nov 2021