Pepper LaBeija tells the story of how her mother watched her become a woman before her very eyes. In her drawling voice, Pepper tells of her mother destroying women’s clothing whenever she found them stashed in the house. Pepper tells the story of her mink coat which her mother brunt up. In that devastating, yet […]

Marriage, defined in terms of institutionalised procreative heterosexuality, is one of the few rights which has attained nearly universal consensus (Borneman, 1996). In most countries throughout the world, the ‘right to found a family’ through marriage is explicitly protected (ibid). Equally, marriage is often the centre of people’s lives; significant life processes such as sexuality, […]

The last time I had sex was February 2020. A few weeks before the first lockdown, I was at a familiar club night at the Wee Red Bar, in Edinburgh College of Art, and I bumped into someone who I’d been dating at the time. That was the last time I brought someone back to […]