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“I’m terrified”: The travel advice for queer people going to the USA

1 month ago | heterosexualnonsense.substack.com | Natalie Feliks

Earlier this month, a British graphic artist called Rebecca Burke was arrested at the United States-Canada border after Canadian border officials told her she was travelling on the wrong type of visa. She was locked in an Immigration and Customs detention centre for 19 days, and her traumatic experience was covered extensively by The Guardian. Her advice for anyone thinking of visiting America is simply “don’t do it”.
Sanism in anti-trans propaganda: it’s all about conversion therapy, stupid!

Jan 9, 2025 | heterosexualnonsense.substack.com | Maddison Stoff

With Meta, who run both Facebook and Instagram, recently announcing that treating people as intellectually inferior for being “mentally ill” is going to be allowed on their platforms if that person is trans or homosexual, it feels like a good time to talk about how sanism is inherent to transphobic rhetoric in general.
Why the recommendations from the inquest into transgender suicides are welcome, but nowhere near enough

Sep 17, 2024 | heterosexualnonsense.substack.com | Natalie Feliks

On 11 December 2020, 28-year-old DJ and union worker Bridget Flack was found dead in bushland near Kew. The discovery of her body came after a twelve-day coordinated search, led by the queer community and over a hundred local residents from the Fairfield area. Bridget had a history of poor mental health, like many trans women, and was attempting to organise support from a mental health facility at the time she disappeared. Evidence suggests she took her own life.
Weird little guys and very old swords

Sep 9, 2024 | heterosexualnonsense.substack.com | Patrick Lenton

If you’re new here, first off - welcome. Hello, your presence has been prophesied, mud-covered peasants whispering your name in their depressing huts, old witches in caves reading your name in the foul smokes from their fires, blind seers dreaming about you and awakening trembling.
The long kiss goodbye: a loving tribute to the short films of Australian queer rights pioneer Stephen Cummins

Aug 21, 2024 | heterosexualnonsense.substack.com | Stephen Russell

Film academic, queer activist and form-shredding musician Simon Hunt – AKA satirical political firebrand Pauline Pantsdown – first met game-changing shorts director Stephen Cummins in Berlin around 1986. “I thought that he was German because he had dyed blond hair, which every second man in Berlin had then,” Hunt chuckles. Hunt, A Sydneysider, was living in Berlin then, gigging with experimental band Bring Philip and collaborating with the Berlin Philharmonic.
After airing some of the most transphobic TV in Australia, the spotlight's now on Channel 7's horrendous workplace culture

Aug 14, 2024 | heterosexualnonsense.substack.com | Natalie Feliks

Last year, Channel 7’s flagship current affairs program Spotlightentered our spotlight after running a particularly virulent piece of anti-trans propaganda featuring notorious far-right campaigner Chloe Cole.
British Labour's willingness to throw trans people under the bus shows how mainstream 'gender-critical' views have become in the party

Jul 10, 2024 | heterosexualnonsense.substack.com | Jeffrey Ingold

It’s been a long time coming. After 14 years, the Conservative Party resoundingly lost their grip on power in the United Kingdom, as the British public delivered a landslide victory for the Labour Party. The results of the July 4 election mean Sir Keir Starmer is now the UK prime minister and has a commanding majority of more than 170 seats. On the face of it, this should be good news for LGBTQ+ people.
When they talk about children's safety, they really mean control

May 12, 2024 | heterosexualnonsense.substack.com | Omar Sakr

On Fridays, from my unit, I hear the call to prayer sing out of Auburn’s Gallipoli mosque, and I remember my father’s funeral service there, the metal casket, the green cloth laid over it, the blazing white courtyard. Sometimes I join my brothers there, and sometimes I don’t. I have yet to take my son, who is almost two, to the masjid so near to our home and which is tied indelibly to my heart, but that day is nearing. I have, however, taken him to the local library.
Rebellion and representation : Talking to the filmmakers of the 10th anniversary of TILDE, the Melbourne Trans and Gender Diverse Film Festival

May 3, 2024 | heterosexualnonsense.substack.com | Stephen A. Russell

The many, many downsides of lockdowns have been aired extensively, but for one emerging filmmaker and actor, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) graduate Tinaye Nyathi, there was at least one unexpected silver lining. “When I started my degree, we had two weeks on campus before we went into lockdown and I resisted it,” he says. “I was pissed off. I was angry and I was sad for a whole semester.”Deferring for a year, he returned to yet more lockdowns, but his response shifted.
The anti-trans movement has a Nazi problem

Apr 22, 2024 | heterosexualnonsense.substack.com | Natalie Feliks

You’re not insane if you have noticed nazis and the so-called “gender critical” movement continually sharing headlines. Last year, on 18 March 2023, the world was in shock as around twenty members of the National Socialist Network (NSN) marched down Spring Street in Melbourne and performed Nazi salutes on the steps of Victoria’s Parliament House during a “Let Women Speak” rally by anti-trans campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen.