Does deconstructing the gender system rock the foundations of nation and state? What might deheterosexualising the state look like?

In October one side of the Atlantic celebrated Black History Month, the other celebrated LGBT History Month. Now we’ve swapped. Wail Qasim reminds us of the links we’re forgetting.

Trump’s anti-abortion agenda cannot be separated from a politics of race and gender. It speaks to certain normative visions of the future that are bound up with retaining interlocking structural privileges.

What is the logic of ‘Value for Money’ in development sector, and could it force foreign aid agencies to choose between irrelevance and subterfuge?

The difference between LGBT+ and queer has something to do with ‘normativity’, right? Mimi Marinucci explains in five paragraphs. 

The dysfunctional land market is the root cause of the housing affordability crisis across many advanced economies. But while there are signs that policy makers are starting to face up to the big questions around land reform, there is little progress on the dangerous interaction between land and finance.

Queer Asia | Essay Prize, Winner | Imagine studying queers in a country where homosexuals are charged not with sodomy but with “falling into capitalism”, where cuddling and groping a same-sex soldier in the cold is not same-sex intimacy but “revolutionary comradeship”. How should we study queerness when it’s invisible?

‘Charlie Hebdo’ took shape because forms of ventriloquism and projection were inevitable in a context where a tiny proportion of participants in the communicative event had any relationship with Charlie Hebdo as an actual publication.

What do we mean when we talk about the “LGBTQ community”? Are we really describing a subculture? In this extract from his book Sex, Needs and Queer Culture, David Alderson questions the language we use to describe minority groups.