Music x Sexuality

Oct 24, 20223 min read

mxmtoon Takes Electric Brixton By (A Very Serene) Storm

Photo by Jason Fisher via Wikimedia Commons (licensed under CC0 1.0) The new wave of musicians rising to fame through social media...

Jul 19, 20224 min read

Awkward Moments and Tom Rasmussen Bring Drama and Joy To The Pickle Factory

Video Courtesy of TomRasmussenVEVO on YouTube “If you’re gonna stare, you may as well f***ing stare.” Cue the pulsating bass, cue the...

Feb 10, 20213 min read

An Anthem for Living, Loving and Dying Amid Crisis - Years and Years Frontman Olly Alexander's cover

Image credit: Chuff Media It's no surprise that a song about the struggles of growing up grappling with your oppressed sexuality hits...

Feb 8, 20213 min read

Mika - The Sound of Sad Gay Adolescence

2007 was the summer of Mika. Life in Cartoon Motion played everywhere for months on end; you couldn’t turn a radio on without falling...

Feb 7, 20213 min read

Non-Binary Representation and Grimes's Kill V. Maim

"GRIMES"by Pemberton Music Festival is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 It’s not often that you find a song that oscillates between using...

Jan 24, 20214 min read

Bring a Bucket and A Mop for This WAP Discourse

Image by Ishita Uppadhayay I knew ‘WAP’ was going to be controversial the minute I heard it. An overtly sexual song performed by two of...

Jan 18, 20214 min read

Christine and the Queens and Gender Fluidity in Mainstream Music

Image credit: Ella Mansell The first summer heatwave of 2019 inaugurates June in Paris and a fervent buzz grows louder in Bois de...

Nov 12, 20203 min read

Queer Choral Communities

Image credit: Pippa Sterk In September 2018, I sat on a train for an hour and a half. At the time, I thought that I was making the...

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