In January, The Queerness is opening the pages on its favourite books, with personal views, and reviews.
Author: Karen Pollock
I am a therapist offering online counselling based in Northumberland with experience of, and post graduate training in, working with gender, sexuality and relationship diverse communities. Passionate about empowering people, and promoting better mental health for all I offer online and walking therapy.
Opinion is not expertise: Post-truth media commentary on LGBTQ+ issues
Karen Pollock explores how in asking a transphobic academic to comment on support for gender non-conforming children, 'Metro' highlights the rotten core of our current media.
What are we afraid of?
On World Aids Day Karen Pollock looks at how attitudes to acceptable types of sex still lead to stigma and prejudice towards those with HIV Today is World Aids Day, a day that many of us hoped would have had become unnecessary when we first stared wearing red ribbons to show our support for those … Continue reading What are we afraid of?
Let’s talk about sex
This December the Queerness team are talking about sex, and all the good things, and the bad things, it can be!
Pornography is not the demon you are looking for
The digital economies billstells people with "non conventional" sexual desires that they are lesser, Karen Pollock explores why this is an unacceptable step backwards in the treatment of LGBTQ people
Mermaids and the Daily Mail
Karen Pollock responds to the Daily Mail attack on the charity Mermaids
November: music month
Each month here at The Queerness, we explore a subject in more depth and invite guest posts. This November we are looking at music. For many queer people, music is an integral part of their life, their coming out, the soundtrack to their first love, how they realised they were queer. Musicians have been a part of … Continue reading November: music month
I beg your pardon?
Karen Pollock takes issue with the idea of a deeply queerphobic government issuing pardons for acts which should never have been crimes in the first place.
Can someone tell the British LGBT awards that bi women are not part time lesbians
Yesterday the British LGBT awards claimed to be bi inclusive by promoting its largely unknown Lesbian and Bi women group. Karen Pollock explores the reasons why they have fallen short of the mark.
Can straight people be queer?
This is The Queerness, but what is queerness, and who should be allowed to call themselves queer? Karen Pollock explores some of the thorny issues around queer identity
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