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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OpinionOpinion: Last chance for a lap-dance in Scotland?
Regular Deviance scribe Twinkle discusses a recent government consultation which could have serious consequences for Scotland's lap-dancing industry Read more »| 30 Oct 2013 -
FeaturesTruly celebrating the ‘T’ in LGBT: Homotopia Turns Ten
Queer culture in the Northwest is being celebrated this month with work from John Waters, Boy George and many others appearing at the Homotopia arts festival. Read more »| 29 Oct 2013 -
Opinion
Coming Out of the Mental Health Closet
A mental health project assistant at LGBT Health and Wellbeing in Edinburgh, discusses a new exhibition looking at LGBT mental ill health Read more »| 02 Oct 2013 -
Interviews
Rosie Garland: The Palace of Curiosities
With her first published novel, The Palace of Curiosities, Manchester veteran Rosie Garland turns her hand to yet another medium with sparkling results. Our Deviance editor, Ana, catches up with her Read more »| 01 Oct 2013 -
OpinionMy Flatmate The Fetishist
Applying online to live with strangers is like playing Flat Roulette. They could be anyone. They could be sociopaths, dirty-knicker-hoarding kleptomaniacs or... Read more »| 30 Sep 2013 -
FeaturesEmbrace The Rainbow: Your Guide To Uni LGBT Societies
It's the time of year where you walk past the rainbow flags at the societies fair and think about joining. But, why would you want to join your LGBT university society in the first place? Read more »| 03 Sep 2013
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Opinion
Stuck At The Intersection
Confronting the online furore among feminist thinkers over the issue of intersectionality, Claire Askew has feminist road rage Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Opinion
Fat: Just As Sexy
I sometimes write erotica. It usually comes in the form of poems, but recently I've been writing more short stories. In poetry, I don't usually do much descr... Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
Interviews
Is Monogamy Dead? An interview with Rosie Wilby
Funny Women finalist Rosie Wilby is coming to the Fringe this month with her new show Is Monogamy Dead? We ask her what she's on about Read more »| 07 Aug 2013 -
Opinion
Beyond the Barriers: An Alternative Pride
With high ticket prices and a commercial sensibility, does the fenced-off Manchester Pride exclude much of the community it's supposed to represent? Our Deviance editor investigates, and takes a look at other ways to celebrate Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
Opinion
In Defence of Taking Offence
Kate Pasola recounts a recent trip to Abu Dhabi and discusses what she learned about the importance of taking offence – in an era that’s all too comfortable with causing it. Read more »| 10 Jul 2013 -
Opinion
Why I Love the 'Friend Zone'
Matthew Bobbu has news for you. Be a nice guy all you like; that still doesn't give you the automatic right to put your penis wherever you see fit. Welcome to the Friend Zone Read more »| 05 Jul 2013 -
Opinion
Old People Sex: A Cultural Blindspot
One writer would like to see more public displays of elderly affection, preferably of the normalising and hot-blooded kind Read more »| 25 Jun 2013 -
Features
Gender Terrorist
We find out how performance artist CHRISTEENE is reclaiming drag for a new generation of artists and fans Read more »| 12 Jun 2013 -
Interviews
After The Anniversary: Raising Awareness of HIV in Scotland
London based artist Edo Zollo’s photographic exhibition Stand Tall, Get Snapped arrives in Glasgow on 14 June. This collection of portraits of people living with HIV in the UK was inspired by the 30th anniversary of the death of Terrence Higgins Read more »| 10 Jun 2013