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TERF Island: the embarassing truth about Britain's Trans Panic.
Condemning an entire category of people on the basis that one of them might commit a crime is the very essence of prejudice. And that prejudice plays…
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The Ballistic Ignorance of Elon Musk
We're in for another few years of stupid opinions about sexual violence from overpromoted failsons demanding we take them seriously. None of these men…
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Why 'woke' is just a right-wing fetish.
Please stop recruiting us into your persecution fantasy. On kink, politics and Brexit, with some incidental detours into my misspent youth.
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I Want To Believe in Ted Lasso.
The Apple hit is a fantasy show where the magic system is healthy masculinity and TLDR I bloody love it. [SPOILER-FREE]
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'Encanto' is a Beautiful, Brilliant, Broken Mess.
Yes, we're going to Talk About Bruno.
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Cancelling, Crybullies and Consequences
Being asked to care about other people isn't actually an attack on your human rights.
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All the Best Things About Europe with None of the Genocide
The Eurovision song contest is epic chaos and probably also the only honest democracy that’s ever existed.
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What is wrong with you people?
Congratulations on owning the libs. Was it worth it?
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The Room of Requirement
My essay on fan culture, politics and the Potterverse for the British Library's Fantasy Exhibit.
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This is where I’ve been.
An experiment in not being ashamed of having a human reaction,
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In a time of monsters: do we have any ideas for surviving the zombie apocalypse that aren’t nightmare patriarchy?
Alex Garland is looking for redemption.
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Guilty Pleasures
Luigi Mangione and the making of a folk hero
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