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Revisiting Cynthia Nixon’s contentious views on sexuality

‘Being gay is a choice’ — As the former Sex And The City star enters the race for New York Governor, writer Aimée Lutkin examines her complicated relationship with bisexuality, the public eye, and the LGBTQ community.

  • Opinion
  • Aimée Lutkin

Want to see who has blocked you on social media? Get a grip

Welcome to the pity party — With a loophole on Grindr now being exploited by users looking to see who has blocked them, Justin Myers takes a look at our unhealthy obsession with confronting our online haters and engaging with their irrelevant minds.

  • Opinion
  • Justin Myers

What’s next for the Afrofuturist movement?

Coloured wave — After the global success of Marvel’s Black Panther, Afrofuturism is now more visible than ever. But does that mean it’s in danger of losing its edge? Writer Tola Onanuga examines the countercultural movement’s past, present and potential future.

  • Culture
  • Tola Onanuga

In conversation with Moonlight writer Tarell Alvin McCraney

Words of survival — The award-winning American playwright talks racism, Moonlight's Oscar and the struggle of taking on injustice with art.

  • Culture
  • Otamere Guobadia

Why does feminism keep leaving sex workers behind?

#ThemToo — Erika Lust discusses the media’s dire treatment of sex workers, and asks why social justice movements like #MeToo have left them almost completely out of the conversation.

  • Opinion
  • Erika Lust

Soviet spy Corbyn? Tabloids have given up on journalism

From Where I Stand — The single source for the latest nonsense attempt to discredit Jeremy Corbyn is a fantasist, but that won't stop the right-wing press - terrified of a Labour clamp down on tax avoidance - from spreading lies, writes Matt Zarb-Cousin.

  • Opinion
  • Matt Zarb-Cousin

How I learnt to live with epilepsy

My dysfunctional brain — Despite the seizures and episodes as a child, it took years for Dawn Foster's epilepsy to be properly diagnosed. Here she writes about life with a condition few people understand.

  • Activism
  • Dawn Foster

How one play sparked a global activist movement

The Vagina Monologues — In 1996, Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues took the world by storm with its blunt, brazen approach to female sexuality. Now, after two decades of fighting for women’s rights around world, she warns that we still have much further to go.

  • Culture
  • Briony Cartmell

The curious case of the centrist and the train

Destination: Tedium Town — To the right they’re a proud symbol of empire, to the left an emancipatory vehicle to a utopian socialist future. But no corner of British politics has a more warped view of the humble train than the centrist, argues Tom Whyman.

  • Opinion
  • Tom Whyman

By joining Rebel Media, Katie Hopkins is embracing the British far-right

All you need to know — If you hoped Katie Hopkins getting dropped by the Mail and LBC would spell her end, think again. She's now signed up to work for far-right outfit Rebel Media, which has ambitions to build a racist movement on Britain's streets.

  • Reportage
  • James Poulter

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