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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Things To DoTop 5: Queer Contact Festival 2017
Contact Theatre's Queer Contact Festival celebrates the 60th anniversary of the publication of the Wolfenden Report with Nigerian singer Le Gateau Chocolat, drag king Lucy Jane Parkinson, 201 Dance Company and others Read more »| 31 Jan 2017 -
OpinionDating by Numbers: Finding love with maths
Can a mathematical formula solve the problem of finding the perfect date? As Valentine's Day approaches, one writer finds out... Read more »| 18 Jan 2017 -
Opinion
Love in the Time of Homelessness
Beyond the commercialisation of Valentine's Day, human connection is far from a luxury. Our writer speaks to two couples for whom love, support and partnership are vital Read more »| 17 Jan 2017 -
Features
Diary of a Financial Dominatrix: Race & Reparation
Deviance's findom correspondent tells us what it's like to be a black goddess, from objecting to the word 'slave' to making money from black stereotypes Read more »| 13 Jan 2017 -
Opinion
A guide to fixing the world in 2017
Toby Sharpe shares a step by step guide to healing the world after the shitstorm that was 2016... Read more »| 10 Jan 2017 -
FeaturesDiary of a Financial Dominatrix, part one
On an ordinary day, on an ordinary dating site, one woman received a request to rinse a man's finances for his own erotic gratification. She agreed, of course... Read more »| 09 Dec 2016
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Opinion
Surviving Christmas When Your Family is The Worst
'Tis the season to be problematic, it seems. We asked two experts how to cope with Christmas time when your family is less than woke... Read more »| 05 Dec 2016 -
Travel
Travelling as a gay couple
Travelling to different cultures can present a wide array of challenges, particularly if your basic rights change in your destination of choice. One writer considers the difficulties of travel as part of a gay couple Read more »| 28 Nov 2016 -
OpinionA Feminist Christmas Wishlist
2016 was an abomination. Feminist presents won't fix it, but they'll sure ease the pain... Read more »| 23 Nov 2016 -
Art
Sharon Hayes @ The Common Guild
Sharon Hayes makes a touching and complicated exhibition from extended engagement with different lesbian archives, including those at the Glasgow Women's Library. Read more »| 09 Nov 2016 -
OpinionTop Trumps: A Guide to Locker Room Talk
Sick and tired of the men around you bringing their locker room talk into the outside world? Find yourself wishing these chaps came with a handy pamphlet to help you decode their slurs? Get up to speed with Deviance’s handy phrasebook... Read more »| 07 Nov 2016 -
Opinion
Why I'm Rejecting Alicia Keys' No Makeup Movement
We need more than a humlebraggy hashtag – #NoMakeup is just a single puzzle piece in a picture of facial freedom Read more »| 04 Nov 2016 -
Opinion
Reclaim the Night
I grabbed my phone and typed to anyone I thought might still be awake: "There is a man trying to get into my house and I don’t know what to do" We are not past the point where men believe they can simply do anything to a woman Read more »| 03 Nov 2016 -
Opinion
7 Bullshit Excuses for Racist Halloween Costumes
Ah, there's a chill in the air and the scent of carved pumpkins lingers. As Halloween approaches, the temptation to dress up like a racist stereotype inexpli... Read more »| 25 Oct 2016 -
Music
Sound Experiments: Manchester’s Women & Non-Binaries
Witchy noise echoes across buckled redbrick walls; Water are playing at Salford’s Islington Mill as part of an all-women line-up including Bruxa I... Read more »| 17 Oct 2016