Will private sexuality be policed while public sexual exploitation continues?
UK citizens could face jail for consensual images while Starmer refuses to ban X, which helps users elsewhere make nonconsensual...
Read moreDetailsJennie Kermode is an author and journalist based in Paisley who specialises in LGBTQ issues and film. Her work has appeared in the likes of New Internationalist, the New Statesman and the Independent, she is a commissioning editor at Eye For Film and her most recent book is Growing Older as a Trans and/or Non-Binary Person.
UK citizens could face jail for consensual images while Starmer refuses to ban X, which helps users elsewhere make nonconsensual...
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Read moreDetailsBob Anderson fled Uganda not once but twice – now, like many LGBTQ+ asylum seekers – he’s trapped in Kenya...
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Read moreDetailsHealth Secretary Wes Streeting is defending a ban on puberty blockers – even though it is poorly evidenced and may...
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