A common defence of those who abstain from using they/them pronouns is that they are part of some new-fangled ‘trend’ and are far too sudden and transient for anyone other than ‘The Youths’ to use, along with the argument that using ‘they’ in the singular form is grammatically incorrect. However often these claims are used, both are wrong. ‘They’ in the singular form has been in use since the 14th century by prolific writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales, 1386), William Shakespeare (Hamlet, 1599) and Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, 1813); and the concept of gender-nonconformity has been around a far longer (ancient Mesopotamia, to be precise).

Geisha are Japanese performing women, professionals in dance, hosting, and often various traditional instruments. They are usually recognisable from their stark painted white skin, bright red lips and customary kimonos, and are historically a staple of Japanese entertainment. Dating back hundreds of years, they could often be found working at teahouses or walking the streets of Kyoto’s Geisha District. Their primary clients were traditionally entirely male, yet the 21st century has transformed their company and performance into tourist favourites.

I have loved watching superhero films for as long as I can remember. Something that has always interested me was the management and intricacies around superpowered rights within these worlds. It’s fascinating how different franchises tackle what would happen in reality if such powers were real, as we have seen in the past how people have been discriminated against for being different. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) this is touched upon with the film Avengers: Civil War around the laws of superpowers.

The holiday season is an interesting time for people of non-Christian faith, especially during our younger years – from incessant questioning as to why we don’t have a Christmas tree, to deeper consolidation towards our othering. So here’s some things not to say to Jewish people during the holiday season.

In 1940, four teenage boys discovered a cave painting in Lascaux, France, when their dog went astray. When they looked for it, they followed their dog through the entrance of a cave, where there were at least one thousand pictures of various animals on the walls – one bull was nearly 17ft long. In shock, or because of the build-up of carbon dioxide in the cave, the boys began to dart around – they ‘went completely crazy,’ they said, and according to one of them the animals seemed to be moving. Imagine that you are these boys from Nazi-occupied France, you have travelled down some sort of rabbit hole to find yourself at the beginning of mankind and you are hallucinating a big dance of prehistoric beasts.