Human rights are “a silly game”, according to defence minister Philip Hammond
Tonight, over sixty people took part in an LGBTQ rights protest at Royal Holloway University against the Tory Minister for Defence, Philip Hammond, who is also the local MP for Runnymede and Weybridge....
View ArticleRoyal Holloway activists confront homophobic minister
Activists involved in NCAFC at Royal Holloway have confronted Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, over his comparison of homosexuality to incest. The story has received a lot of coverage in Pink...
View ArticleRoyal Holloway calls for Philip Hammond to resign over homophobic comments
Last night, Royal Holloway Students’ Union (SURHUL) passed a motion calling for Philip Hammond to resign from his posts as both defence secretary and MP for Runnymede and Weybridge. The proposers were...
View ArticlePROTEST Transphobia!!
Last Wednesday 22nd of February our sister Ms. Dos Santos was victimised and mocked by police officers claiming she was ‘not normal’. When is this going to end? We face transphobia eevryday even from...
View ArticleDaily 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...
View ArticleAlan 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...
View ArticleYoung 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...
View ArticleLGBT+ 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleNUS 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....
View ArticleNUS 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...
View ArticleTrans 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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