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For members of the LGBTQ+ community, the Coronavirus pandemic has been particularly challenging. Queer people suffer from far higher rates of mental health problems such as depression and anxiety than their cishet counterparts and naturally, this has been made worse by restrictions imposed as a result of the pandemic. Some have been forced to stay […]
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Asexual awareness week is the last week of October – did you know that? Because I sure didn’t, until a couple of days ago when I saw various ace-related things pop up on Twitter. Talking and thinking about asexuality can always be a little rough. Every time some kind of asexuality event shows up, it’s […]
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Image description: Naoise Dolan holding her book ‘Exciting times’ Search Naoise Dolan, and Sally Rooney’s name is mentioned almost as many times as hers. The comparisons between them are so frequent you’d be forgiven for thinking their books are the same. At one level, they are of course similar. Both young, Irish women writing gripping […]
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Image Description: Crowds at a festival I took my time to get into the 1975. The phenomenon of their ever-growing fame has been fairly recent in terms of universal recognition. I’ve been exposed to them for a long while though, with my high school friends overflowing with excitement over an album whose title was way […]
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I want to start by acknowledging how lucky I am. Many of my fellow LGBTQ+ people at Oxford will have been forced to lockdown without their significant other. Some are even shut away in hostile family environments, or trapped in the closet with no clear reprieve. I know how fortunate I am that that is […]
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Image description: A pride flag hangs above a building in Oxford. Something dawned on me while I was watching the BBC interview with Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price during the recent election. Why, in 2019, was a politician’s sexuality still worthy of discussion? Too often, LGBTQ+ people are viewed more as representatives than as individuals. […]
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I’m back again! Join me in 6th week for a final overview, thinking about representation in kids’ versus adults’ media and the future. There were a lot of things I thought about writing on this week: Captain Jack’s bisexuality in Doctor Who, the incredible Steven Universe’s non-binary femme-presenting couple among other things, Nickelodeon’s new Loud […]
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Hello! I’m back again this week to talk about more queer representation in children’s media. If I could write my dissertation on Adventure Time, I probably (definitely) would. Although I’m here to talk about the show’s portrayal of trans characters and the romantic relationship between a bubblegum princess and a vampire queen, Adventure Time is […]
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Every other week this term I’ll be discussing LGBT+ characters in children’s TV and film. This vacation I finally finished Nickelodeon’s The Legend of Korra (2012-2014), sequel series to the anime-inspired Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008). Both shows had wide appeal for their combination of emotionally-mature storylines with wonderfully childlike humour and fantasy. What caught […]
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A vigil was held last night outside the Radcliffe Camera to honour the victims of the Orlando attack, in which 49 people were killed. Hundreds of people gathered on the north side of Radcliffe Square for the event which began at 8.30pm. OUSU’s LGBTQ Campaign, who organised the event, handed out candles, whilst poems and […]
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Amidst news of Scarlett Johansson’s casting as Major Motoko in Ghost in the Shell, many news outlets took an opportunity to begin a productive discussion about the problem of whitewashing in Hollywood. Less discussed, however, is Hollywood’s similar problem with ‘straightwashing’. The old adage holds that to make it in Hollywood, one has to ‘play […]
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The name of St Hugh’s first bop of Hilary term has been changed after a number of student complaints.
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