The median age to graduate university in the UK is 22 years old, which for our grandparents’s generation was the average age for a woman to have her first child. Although we have seen generational shifts in heteronormative expectations and norms, there still seems to be subliminal pressures for 21st century women to marry, have […]
Art imitates life, life imitates art, and the media’s portrayal of the bisexual isn’t always the nicest.
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 articles, and hosted podcasts such as The Way We Are. Last year, she was appointed Contributing Editor to the British Vogue. As a transgender woman, […]
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 we’d be around each other exclusively for the next seventy-two hours. We would pick up where we left off as soon as our Ryanair flight grounded […]
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 Clarissa’s most “exquisite moment of her whole life,” almost “religious” when Sally “stopped; picked a flower’ and “kissed her on the lips”. Virginia Woolf’s book […]
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 about anything and everything: Greek goddesses, the Vietnam War, and even memories of primary school mornings. She has undoubtedly proven herself to be a poetic […]
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 of the Synod’s ‘houses’ voted in support of the proposals and the first blessings are expected in the summer. This move is accompanied by a […]
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 the Russian government deems “LGBT Propaganda”. Towards the end of 2022, the Russian government passed a law criminalising the creation, production, distribution, and consumption of […]