LGBTQ+

There is so much to live foryet they focus on what (they think) happens when we die,  holding not themselves but us accountable when we stray from their painted-on lines… ‘It’s… Read more.

Gender performativity has skewed what it means to be a woman in today’s society. When heterosexuality is the norm, and so much of our experience as women is shaped by… Read more.

The imprint of your maskhas turned into a scar,its pressure so tight,that you’ve forgotten who you are. Let me tell you who you are… Not mother or wife, or nurse or… Read more.

Entangled in our love and feeling no shame, we spend the morning in bed lying breast to breast, with their cries of ‘But it’s a sin. Women should not lie with women as women lie with… Read more.

Few people have the courage to demand change in a society that tells us that there is nothing to change. Or, in the rare instances when society does accept that… Read more.

My partner and I are both interested in art and history and, as lesbians, we love to delve into queer history in particular. Berlin offers tourists an unrivalled opportunity to… Read more.

Nowhere does ‘love means love’ ring truer than in Paris, the city of love and the capital of the first (modern) country to legalise same-sex relationships. While homosexuality wasn’t decriminalised… Read more.

We live in a society where diverging from the ordinary doesn’t make you ‘extraordinary’but a freak, our bodies deemed ‘incomplete’ by the owners of sharp tongues and wandering eyes, strangers whose… Read more.

Constantly defined by their relationship to men, to everything they are not, ‘a woman is someone who isn’t a man’, to be a woman who loves women is to resist… Read more.

This is a poem about the discrimination that I face as a gay womanwhen walking down the street holding hands with my girlfriend I am subject to stare after stare by… Read more.