Lights! Camera! Action!

The theme for September is Film, introduced by Karen Pollock. 

Digital mirror: Finding ourselves in The Sims

Rounding off our theme for August, mental health, a group of fans of 'The Sims' explains how conducive the game is to a sense of well-being and community.

5 common mental health issues if you are bisexual

A guest writer, Marcus Clarke, looks at the mental health issues faced by bi people

Straight Pride Matters?

As the Pride season ends, Karen Pollock asks why some people keep demanding they  be allowed to have a "Straight pride"

Beyond invisibility: 5 issues facing the bisexual community

Despite all the erasure of bisexuality that may have happened this Pride season, Lois Shearing asks whether it is time to stop looking past visibility as the main issue facing the bisexual community, to focus on the systematic violence and oppression facing bisexuals

The Hijra community and the complex path to decolonising gender in Bangladesh

The need to understand gender as a spectrum must include non-Western identities and a move towards decolonising queerness. Ibtisam Ahmed explores the history of the Hijra community in Bangladesh.

When free speech costs

Amid signs of an emboldened far right on both sides of the Atlantic, Sam Hope explores how a distorted version of "free speech" has become toxic.

We support the self-identification of gender

A selection of the curators at The Queerness discuss why they support self-identification of gender

Queer picks at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

With a dazzling array of shows on offer a this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Callum Kenny gives his four top tips of the unmissable queer performances this year.

Dear cisgender feminists, trans women are not your enemy

Guest writer Chay Brown, an activist from the National Union of Teachers, responds to the assertions that the reforms to the gender recognition act are in contradiction to the rights of others.