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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SexualityLove Bites: A Year of Solidarity for British East and South-East Asian Communities
This month's columnist reflects on how British East and South-East Asian communities have been brought closer together over 2020 Read more »| 07 Dec 2020 -
SexualityYouth in Revolt: What children taught me about living during COVID-19
No one is immune to the impact of COVID-19, least of all kids. One writer explores how working with children during a pandemic shed new light on her own youth Read more »| 30 Nov 2020 -
SexualityLove Bites: Back in My Body
This month's columnist reflects on how learning BTS' dance routines put her back in her body Read more »| 12 Nov 2020 -
SexualityLove Bites: On TikTok Dance Duets
This month's columnist reflects on how TikTok dances became a language between her and her sister during lockdown Read more »| 08 Oct 2020 -
SexualityLove Bites: Goodbye to the city that made me
In this month's column, an Edinburgh gal writes a farewell love letter to the city Read more »| 16 Sep 2020 -
SexualityReclaiming Our Histories: Growing up LGBTQIA+ and religious
Religion and LGBTQIA+ inclusivity tend to go together like oil and water. One writer reflects on her own Catholic school upbringing and how it shaped her sexual identity Read more »| 03 Apr 2020
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SexualityLove Bites: Lost Love, Heartbreak and Music
This month's columnist reflects on the emotional staying power of music Read more »| 03 Apr 2020 -
SexualityLove Bites: On Solo Cinema Trips
This month's columnist makes the case for his love of sitting alone in the cinema Read more »| 10 Mar 2020 -
SexualityHow Govanhill is fighting gentrification with community
Gentrification may seem relentless, but, after years of new artisan cafes and rising rent prices, Govanhill is still pushing back. We speak to some local businesses about how a focus on community has been integral to combatting gentrification Read more »| 05 Mar 2020 -
SexualityProtest Poetry: UCU university strikes & creative solidarity
As thousands of university workers across the country go on strike, we take a look at the outpouring of creative projects being produced as part of the protest Read more »| 02 Mar 2020 -
SexualityLove Bites: Food as a love language
This month's columnist explores how her relationship with her mother is articulated through food Read more »| 07 Feb 2020 -
SexualityRevenge porn, and trust in the age of nudes
After finding images of herself on a revenge porn website, one writer contemplates how we can trust in the age of online dating and "send nudes" Read more »| 07 Feb 2020 -
SexualityWatching the news as a second-generation Iranian immigrant
2020 started with the US assassination of Qassem Soleimani, throwing Iran into turmoil and causing World War III to trend on Twitter. Here's what watching the news unfold felt like to this second-generation Iranian immigrant Read more »| 03 Feb 2020 -
SexualityCyber Queers: Digital communication and community
This month's columnist considers what makes up online queer communities Read more »| 13 Jan 2020 -
SexualityApocalypse Now: Why we can’t get enough of the end of the world
Mainstream culture loves a good apocalypse story, but what exactly does our fascination with the end of days say about us? Read more »| 10 Jan 2020