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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OpinionShitfaced & Interesting: Alcohol and Social Anxiety
Using alcohol to relax in social situations is deemed normal in Britain, but as social anxiety plagues a generation of digital natives, drinking can quickly become a crutch. It's time to talk about it Read more »| 05 May 2017 -
Opinion
Swiping Rights: How Tinder is Failing Queer Femmes
From relentless fetishisation to unsolicited threesome requests, queer femmes have a tough time of it when it comes to using Tinder. Here's how things need to change... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
Books
Ever Dundas: The Problems with Gender and Language
In her debut novel Goblin, Ever Dundas takes on the preset gender narratives society imposes on us. Here she discusses the problems language throws up when w... Read more »| 28 Apr 2017 -
Opinion
Is It Safe to Come Out?
When I came out, there was the seeming option that I could stay in if I’d wanted – and some people don’t have that luxury Read more »| 04 Apr 2017 -
Features
Manchester's Emmeline Pankhurst statue announced
Sculptor Hazel Reeves has been announced as the designer who will create a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst for Manchester Read more »| 04 Apr 2017 -
Opinion
My Favourite Break-up: On Conscious Uncoupling
We’re terrible at break-ups as a society. Why were we so quick to dismiss the advice of conscious uncoupling advocates? Read more »| 27 Mar 2017
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Art
Ian McKellen opens LGBT+ rights exhibition
Sir Ian McKellen gave a stirring speech in Manchester last night to launch Never Going Underground, a new exhibition at the People's History Museum exploring the fight for LGBT+ rights Read more »| 03 Mar 2017 -
FeaturesAccess all Areas: Disability & Culture in Scotland
Deviance speaks to EUSA's Disability and Mental Wellbeing Convenor about Edinburgh's accessibility problem and the people who're trying to fix it... Read more »| 01 Mar 2017 -
Things To Do
Wonder Women festival: 5 top events
Manchester's feminist festival Wonder Women returns to celebrate International Women's Day with over a week of events that pay homage to the city's rich legacy of radical feminism. Read more »| 28 Feb 2017 -
Books
404 Ink on Nasty Women, their first anthology
Publishing on International Women's Day, fresh and fierce new publishers 404 Ink's Nasty Women is an anthology Margaret Atwood describes as 'An essential window into many of the hazard-strewn worlds younger women are living in right now.' Read more »| 28 Feb 2017 -
Film
What Fifty Shades can learn from Secretary
Inspired by GFF’s screening of Steven Shainberg’s Secretary and this month’s release of the Fifty Shades sequel, we look at the lessons the modern spankbuster could learn from the 2002 cult classic. Read more »| 09 Feb 2017 -
Things To Do
LGBT History Month Events in Glasgow and Edinburgh
It's LGBT History Month and there's never been a better time to celebrate, investigate and mourn for the history of LGBTQ+ people. We've picked out the best clubs, films, plays and workshops across Edinburgh and Glasgow to help you do exactly that... Read more »| 02 Feb 2017 -
Theatre
NTS announce trans artists digital symposium
The National Theatre of Scotland present Beyond the Binary, a free digital symposium exploring trans artists in the digital world Read more »| 01 Feb 2017 -
Opinion
In Praise of Forgetting Your Sexual Tally
I’m Kate, I'm almost 24, and right now I don’t know the exact number of people I’ve slept with Read more »| 31 Jan 2017 -
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