Daily Transphobic Fail
Daily Failings By Thais Yanez, NCAFC LGBTQ+ Officer, Trans* Place The death of Ms. Lucy Meadows is not just another statistic or tragedy we have to protest against, it is the result of a campaign of...
View ArticleUSI Congress 2013 – Report from Aisling Gallagher, NUS USI Women’s Officer
NCAFC are republishing this statement and report from USI Congress, by Aisling Gallagher, NUS USI Women’s Officer Last week I went to Ballinasloe for USI Congress 2013 as part of the QUBSU delegation....
View ArticleNo to anti-semitism! Defeat support for “Zeitgeist” at NUS LGBT conference!
The following statement is being distributed at NUS LGBT conference by Jack Saffery-Rowe, one of the NCAFC LGBTQ Officers. Please circulate widely. *** Amendment 309a: Don’t support Zeitgeist! Fight...
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Alan Turing’s pardon: No more than a gesture
Alan Turing has been granted a posthumous royal pardon for his 1952 conviction for consensual sex with another man. If this provides a degree of comfort to some living LGBTQ people, then it’s perhaps a...
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Young LGBTQ people need the right to live independently: defend benefits from...
Ben Towse, NCAFC LGBTQ caucus Content note – this article discusses homophobic and transphobic intolerance and abuse within families Liam Byrne, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Universities, Science and...
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LGBT+ activists call on NUS to fight for free education
This letter has been written by LGBT+ student officers and activists since NUS LGBT+ conference voted to support free, liberatory education and living grants, and to call on NUS to organise a national...
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Why we’re marching for housing rights on Pride
On Saturday 27 June, we’ll be marching on Pride in London with the trade unions and Lesbians & Gay Men Support the Miners – join us! All supporters are welcome regardless of sexuality or gender...
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NUS LGBT+ Conference Bulletin
Today our LGBTQ caucus is at NUS LGBT+ conference! Check out their bulletin below (in both PDF and text format), with articles about living grants, freedom of movement, and the no platform debate....
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NUS LGBT+ 2017: When virtue signalling trumps fighting for liberation
NCAFC activist and UCL student Ben Towse writes about last month’s NUS LGBT+ Conference. This is an opinion piece – what do you think? If you want to write a response or another article on this or...
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Trans Liberation and the Student Movement
This is the text of an introduction by NCAFC activist Luke Dukinfield for a session at NCAFC’s recent Winter Conference The intention of this session is to begin to open up a conversation about trans...
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