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Image description: a miniature portrait of James Barry by an unknown artist, c. 1813-16 Transgender Awareness Week occurs annually between November 13th-19th. This week is meant to celebrate the achievements of the trans community, as well as memorialise the victims of transphobic violence. This is done in the hopes of bringing attention to the necessity […]
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Image description: girl holding flag silhouetted against sunset Disclaimer: What I describe in this article is inspired by my personal and my neurodivergent friends’ experiences with gender identity. Many neurodivergent people are very comfortable with and secure in their gender identity and the fact that their brain works differently does not invalidate who they are. […]
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Image description: green letters formed vertically against a black background reminiscent of The Matrix “My name, is Neo!” And so marks the end of the transformation of the protagonist of the Wachowski’s breakthrough 1999 film The Matrix from “Thomas A. Anderson” into his true, and freer, self. The Matrix as trans allegory is a well-known and […]
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Image description: a child running with a trans flag with the ground illuminated in rainbow colours TW: transphobia, internalised transphobia, misgendering Disclaimer: this article is written entirely from a binary trans personal perspective. The feelings talked about, whilst possibly shared among multiple binary trans individuals, do not represent how every trans people feels and definitely […]
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Image Description: An image of the Radcliffe Camera on a cloudy day The Oxford Student has obtained previously unreleased data on undergraduate student demographics at the University of Oxford. The data is collected by the university through the Student Self Service portal as part of the student registration process in order to meet its reporting […]
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Image description: two rolls of stickers in a basket which say “They/them/theirs” and “Ze/hir/hirs” on them respectively A few weeks ago, I woke up to an email from my internship supervisor. I was expecting it to be a standard admin job, one of the usual tasks. Instead, I found that the email was asking me […]
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I feel like it’s worth prefacing this whole piece with a statement: I don’t think I’ve ever considered working for the BBC. The latest antics surrounding trans identity ignored entirely, I still wouldn’t really have thought about it or seen it as a career option. So when I write this, it doesn’t come from the […]
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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: A picture of Jenny on a blue background. CN: Transition and transphobia. I first met Jenny Scoones on a cold Tuesday night in November. She borrowed a cigarette so that she could sing me a more accurate rendition of Lana del Ray’s Video Games as we stood in a crowd of Skittles attendees, […]
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Pro-trans graffiti which reads “trans happiness is real” has been popping up in several areas across Oxford. An Oxlove has been posted with a photo of the graffiti on a bin in Cornmarket street. It has also been alleged that similar messages have been left by Oxford Brookes in Headington, and that stickers have been […]
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Image description: Janet Mock, Grand Marshall at the 2014 San Francisco Pride Parade Transgender Visibility Day, also known as ‘TDoV’, is celebrated on the 31st March. It was started in 2009 by Rachel Crandall Crocker, a trans-activist in the US and one of the co-founders of Transgender Michigan. Though distinct from the Transgender Day of […]
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Image Credit: Montrealis (CC BY-SA 2.5) Georgina Beyer, the world’s first openly transsexual mayor and member of parliament, has been invited to speak at the Oxford Union. Beyer has described the invitation as “huge honour”. The former New Zealand politician was elected Mayor of Carterton, Wellington, in 1995 before becoming MP for Wairarapa in the […]
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One might well say it’s an exciting and empowering time for the role of trans issues in the arts. Notably, the story of the painter Lili Elbe achieved international recognition in ‘The Danish Girl’ and, closer to home, both slots at the Burton Taylor Studio this week have been devoted to pieces of new writing […]
Continue ReadingLaverne Cox’s front cover of TIME magazine as a trans woman of colour will surely go down in history as one of the most ground breaking and revolutionary media events of the past decade. Whilst the ‘equal’ marriage legislation recently enacted purposefully rejected provisions for trans people and Stonewall continue to ignore and ridicule their […]
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