MANY American trans people and their families are devastated and fearful of what is to come following the re-election of Donald Trump.
WHEN the exit polls were announced on the night of July 4, I felt hollow. By that point, it wasn’t a surprise to see the map turn red, but after everything we’d heard from Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, the knowledge that the voice of the opposition in Scotland would be so small was deflating ...
YOU might have seen the popular meme format based on a scene from the comedy series Community, where the character Britta – a white woman – says: “I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at animal cruelty.”
FRIENDSHIP break-ups can be devastating – so why don’t we talk about them? In the last few years, I’ve lost a couple of people who were deeply important to me. Not through death, but through the more ambiguous kind of loss where they remain just out of reach –friendships damaged or disintegrated beyond repair that I once believed were for life.
WHEN I first devoured Jacqueline Wilson’s Girls series, starring teenage best friends Ellie, Magda, and Nadine, I was technically too young to be reading them – which made them all the more thrilling...
"IN our city we don’t pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.”
TURNING 17, I felt like the world was mine. For the first time in my teenage years, I had a group of friends I could be myself with and who seemed to celebrate me for all of my quirks.
WHAT would you do if you became world-famous overnight? How would you feel?
THE worlds and fandoms of sci-fi, fantasy, and video games, often described as “geek” or “nerd” culture, are fraught with contradictions. The revelation that actor Kaitlyn Dever had to be provided with extra security on set of The Last Of Us season two, for fear of backlash to the character she’s playing, speaks to the worst of these.
SOMETIMES it’s easy to forget that Scotland really is a part of Great Britain – especially when you surround yourself with people who bear no connection to notions of British patriotism and who would sooner be seen in their underwear than draped in a Union Jack ...
