This article is based on a text written by a variety of authors on the topic of compulsory heterosexuality, with an extra note of the editor of this blog on the validity of all sexualities and how they can change throughout your life. The full master document provides a very good overview of the most […]
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Author: Evelien Feys.Time: 10 min You have probably noticed that in many forms of the acronym, be it LGBT+, LGBTQ+ or LGBTQIA+, there is a ‘+’ at the end of it. This post will give you some more information on why people put it there and what it can mean. So what does the + […]
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Institutions of higher education in Belgium and in the rest of the world still grapple with achieving gender equity. According to official KU Leuven statistics, as of December 2019, 30% of Senior Academic Staff within KU Leuven were women. KU Leuven has since reiterated its commitment to improving its gender policy. But what is the current […]
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There has been some controversy surrounding the question whether straight actors can or should play LGBT roles. The answers have been very short and very simple: usually it’s something along the lines of “yes, it is called acting”. But this question is actually a very complex one, and sassy one-liners really don’t do the job […]
Read moreThis list was made for KU Leuven Pride Week 2020! In collaboration with Leonardo LGBT International, LOKO, Stura Diversity, and the KU Leuven LGBTQI InfoPoint. The last couple of years have seen a huge increase in the number of LGBT+ related movies and TV shows available on mainstream streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon […]
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The next part of this series is about a community that is often overlooked. These people are usually quite invisible, but do encounter a lot of stigma and misunderstanding around their lesser-known sexual orientation: asexuality.
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The LGBTQIA+ acronym encompasses different non-normative identities. It expresses sexual and gender identities. But next to gender and sexuality, there is another “category”: sex. Sex refers to biology: …
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For the fifth installation of this series, we will take a look at what it takes to be an ally to the complicated, inclusive, wonderfully broad Q of the queer community.
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This week: how to be an ally to transgender people, one of the most marginalised communities in our society.
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Next up: how to be an ally to bisexual people.
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