Tag: LGBTQ+
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Unsafe: the carceral roots of the anti-trans backlash
By Sarah Lamble This is such a rational, needed book, which carefully unpacks the current anti-trans landscape in the UK. Lamble explains clearly and logically how some strands of British feminism started to think excluding trans people makes women safe. From their point of view as a prison abolitionist, they make a convincing case for…
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Sunstruck
by William Rayfet Hunter This is one of those slowly unravelling books – it starts with decadence, desire and a playful summer lightness, before descending into the complexities of class, privilege and family trauma. The first half of Sunstruck has a vivid, honeyed setting, which I felt as mesmerised by as the protagonist does. The…
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Love in Exile
by Shon Faye Paperback, £12.99 Right from the first chapter of this insightful and engaging memoir and investigation into the politics of love, Faye made me question how I view the topic. Her writing is both rigorously researched and entertaining – Love in Exile is a clever analysis of how political and social influences can…
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