Huck Magazine » Transgender
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Huck Magazine » Transgender
1w ago
The fight for funding — A dearth of compassion for trans people makes it easier to pit them against cis women and children. But the true evil is right under our noses, writes Nicola Dinan ..read more
Huck Magazine » Transgender
1w ago
‘I won’t be bullied into hiding’ — Russia is widely regarded as one of the most homophobic nations in the Western world. Following the enactment of a law against ‘gay propaganda’ in 2013, hate crimes against members of the LGBTQ community have soared, especially murder and serious violence. Transgender people are arguably even more of a target, given Russia’s culture of rigidly enforcing gender roles. 27-year-old Eva Borisov explains what it’s like being transgender in such an intensely hostile environment. Eva Borisov, as told to Nick Chester ..read more
Huck Magazine » Transgender
1w ago
#TransKidsExist — In the wake of a High Court ruling making it harder to prescribe puberty blockers to under-16s, writer Nicola Dinan asks why anyone would celebrate a now even starker absence of healthcare for trans kids ..read more
Huck Magazine » Transgender
1w ago
Transgender Marxism — Writer and historian Jules Joanne Gleeson and political economist and gender theorist Elle O’Rourke discuss their new co-edited book, which explores trans lives and movements through a Marxist lens ..read more
Huck Magazine » Transgender
1w ago
#LWithTheT — In the wake of a popular British gay magazine sharing several tweets from a transphobic organisation last month, writer Jack King argues that these attempts to stoke division are a danger to us all ..read more
Huck Magazine » Transgender
1w ago
Detransition, Baby — The Brooklyn-based author talks to Huck about her groundbreaking debut novel, a kaleidoscopic social comedy which fearlessly navigates taboos around gender, sex, and relationships ..read more
Huck Magazine » Transgender
1w ago
Now in its third year running, Trans+ Pride London attracted some 7,500 attendees. Photographer Bex Wade was on hand to capture the uplifting and poignant event ..read more
Huck Magazine » Transgender
2w ago
Photographer Emily-Jayne Nolan went down to Moth Club, Hackney to capture the anniversary show of Peace & Justice Project’s campaign to save grassroots music venues.
Inside Hackney’s Moth Club, it’s warm. Not quite sweat dropping off the ceilings warm just yet, but it’s getting there. In the centre of the packed out room, people throw themselves at one another as the pounding drums and driving guitars of Ditz fill the room. Atop one of the booths that line the side of the room, microphone cable trailing high above heads from the stage, lead singer Cal Francis holds court, the melee of lim ..read more
Huck Magazine » Transgender
2w ago
Meet the young people finding life talking about death in cafes popping up across the world.
As I entered a dimly lit room I didn’t know what to expect, and would’ve believed you if you told me I’d mistakenly joined a Book Club or Crochet Circle. Ten smiling faces looked back at me, and I selected my chair in the circle, anxiously waiting for the silence to break. When it did, my nerves dissipated, and my world opened up.
This little room, at the end of an idyllic London Mews, was my first experience of a Death Cafe. It was my second date in a now, ironically deceased romance. When he fi ..read more
Huck Magazine » Transgender
2w ago
The Texas Regulators are a women-led trail riding group who celebrate zydeco music, Creole heritage and African-American cowboy culture in America’s Deep South.
“When a horse rides past you, you can feel it if you’re not even looking,” Ashley Lewis explains. “When you have so many horses moving together, it’s pumping. It’s pumping the ground where we ride. We ride across several fields of cattle. As we ride, you see the cattle stop what they’re doing, come to the fence of the road that we’re riding on and they start to run right alongside of us. You’ll see people come out on their porches or ..read more