A reveller enjoys Pride in London in 2019 – but LGBTQ+ rights are under threat around the globe.
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Issie Yewman

It has been just more than a decade since I was 13, in 2013.

The year before carried some historic moments with the Olympic Games coming to London and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee – both imbued with a sense of national pride.

Across the pond, Obama had just won re-election, carrying forward the ‘Hope’ campaign that defined much of Gen Z’s early political awareness.

By then, I was in Year 9, playing FarmVille and scrolling on Tumblr, listening to ‘Royals’ by Lorde, seeing Miley Cyrus swing into the zeitgeist on a wrecking ball, and unable to escape my little sister’s obsession with the newly released film Frozen.

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Dehumanising Invisibility Versus Insecure Visibility

Issie Yewman

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For Better Or For Worse – Reclaiming a Social Imagination

Fun and Joy Are Very Powerful Political Forces