Book Review: ‘Transitional’ by Munroe Bergdorf
Munroe Bergdorf’s Transitional is a valuable cultural artefact. For those who do not know, Munroe Bergdorf is a model, activist, and media celebrity. She has appeared on talk shows, written…
Travelling While Gay
Before we landed in Krakow, my boyfriend and I agreed that we weren’t boyfriends anymore. We weren’t breaking up. Instead, we were freezing our relationship for the weekend, even though…
Bisexuality in Literature: Is It Underrepresented?
The sensuous depiction of Clarissa Dalloway and her close friend Sally’s veiled romance in Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway quickly comes to mind when I think of bisexuality in literature. Described as…
Carol Ann Duffy: My LGBT Literary Hero
You may remember Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry from school. The former Poet Laureate’s work appears, quite rightly, on almost every English Literature syllabus across the country. She has a poem…
A Progressive Church of England?
For the first time in its history, the Church of England will allow same-sex couples to be blessed by a priest, following a vote by the General Assembly. All three…
LGBT Books Banned in Russia
Censorship abounds as a theme in literature. George Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale are classic examples. In a now chilling turn of reality, Putin has banned what…
Review: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect from Everything Everywhere All at Once. Informed only by a vague and uncertain synopsis of the trailer…
Tchaikovsky in Love: The Battle over the Composer’s Romantic Life
Originally submitted 8th February 2022 “I should like by my marriage to shut the mouths of various contemptible creatures whose opinion I do not value in the least but who…