Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin came as a surprise to many of his contemporary readers, after all he was a writer known for his work on the African-American experience, and this was a book about a white American man in Paris. The book ,nevertheless, was (mostly) well received and remains a classic text in the LGBTQ+ canon, though Baldwin himself said that the story was “not so much about homosexuality”.
The fight for LGBTQIA equality has been monetised by an establishment that undermines and offers little support in the fight for social liberty under a rainbow shield of ‘alliance’. While rainbow vodka and cute rainbow t shirts can be enticing (although sometimes they are painfully cringey), it is blatantly performative.
This week’s topical cartoon, illustrated by Saskia Dickinson
Have a flick through this week’s top stories, curated by Cara Hene
In the UK’s political climate that we live in today, as we are concerned with many democratic current affairs such as political candidacy or election fraud, it easy for us to forget that there is a plurality of states existing under the structure of a monarchy, some without a republican or democratic framework. As of 2019, there are 44 sovereign states in the world with a monarch serving as head of state, 13 of which are in Asia.
