In recent years, trans rights have become a major element of the so-called “culture wars” and the “war on woke” being waged by the right around the world.1 This has gone hand in hand with attacks on analyses of organisations… Continue Reading
Miriam Frank, Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America (Temple University Press, 2014), £20.99 In the past year there has been increased interest, both in the academy and in the broad left, in notions of solidarity between… Continue Reading
In July 2013 Bradley Manning, the American soldier who passed thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks in protest at US military operations in the Middle East, was sentenced to 35 years in Fort Leavenworth military prison.1 The day after sentencing… Continue Reading
Some activists and theorists in the field of gender and sexuality have partly or wholly abandoned the designation LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) and instead write and organise under the banner of “queer”. Queer theory and politics originated in… Continue Reading