We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights

by Beth Ditto, Owen Jones, Olly Alexander

Overview

How can we create a better world for LGBTQ+ people? Mykki Blanco, Kate Bornstein, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Ditto, Wolfgang Tillmans and more share their stories and visions for the future.

'Captivating . . . A must-read' Gay Times

We talk about achieving 'LGBTQ+ equality', but around the world, LGBTQ+ people are still suffering discrimination and extreme violence. How do we solve this urgent problem, allowing queer people everywhere the opportunity to thrive?

In We Can Do Better Than This, 35 voices explore this question. Through deeply moving stories and provocative new arguments on safety and visibility, dating and gender, care and community, they present a powerful manifesto for how - together - we can start to create a better future.

Edited by journalist and author Amelia Abraham, with writing from: Peppermint - Wolfgang Tillmans - Olly Alexander - Jonathan Anderson - Pabllo Vittar - Naoise Dolan - Amrou Al-Kadhi - Shura - Beth Ditto - Owen Jones - Riyadh Khalaf - Tom Rasmussen - Mykki Blanco - Phyll Opoku-Gyimah - Travis Alabanza - Yasmin Benoit - Mazharul Islam - Kate Bornstein - Adam Eli - Shon Faye - Fox Fisher - Hanne Gaby Odiele - Sasha Kazantseva - Andrew Gurza - Holland - Levi Hord - Juliet Jacques - Leticia Opio - madison moore - Matthew Riemer (@LGBT_History) - Vincent Desmond - Juno Roche - Bobbi Salvör Menuez - Carl Siciliano

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529113310
Publisher:	Penguin Random House UK
Publication date:	10/01/2022
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	599,271
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Amelia Abraham is a journalist and author from London. She has worked as an editor at VICE, Refinery29 and Dazed, and writes for the Guardian, British Vogue and many other publications. Her first book, Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture, is a roving, first-person exploration of the mainstreaming of queer culture across the West.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Safety

Crystal's Make-Up Tom Rasmussen 11

Leaving Bangladesh Mazharul Islam 21

'Acceptance' in Brazil Pabllo Vittar 33

Kissing in Public Shura 39

Kito Diaries Vincent Desmond 49

Visibility

The 'Visibility' We Still Don't See Beth Ditto 61

Don't Be Afraid to Be the First Holland 69

Seen & Unseen: Living Between Two Stigmas Mykki Blanco 75

Ace of Clubs Yasmin Benoit 83

Transphobia and the UK Media Juliet Jacques 93

Trans Influencers Shon Faye 111

Dating, Love and Family

Know Thyself, or Don't Naoise Dolan 123

Single and Fabulous? Amrou Al-Kadhi 129

On the Stigma of Dating Trans People: Peppermint 137

Happily Ever After Isn't Accessible to Me Andrew Gurza 149

Pregnancy Beyond Gender Levi Hord 157

Health and Social Care

Anti-LGBTQ+ Bigotry Is Seriously Bad for Your Health Owen Jones 169

Sex?! Relationships?! PrEP?! Oily Alexander 181

Queering Sex Ed Sasha Kazantseva 187

Navigating Trans Healthcare Fox Fisher 197

The End of Forced Intersex Surgeries Hanne Gaby Odiele 207

Breaking Through: Centering the Needs of Homeless LGBTQ+ Youth Carl Siciliano 215

As We Grow Older Juno Roche 223

Beyond the Binary

Disobedient Bodies Jonathan Anderson 233

If It's Broke, Fix It Amelia Abraham 239

Pronouns as Portal Magic Bobbi Salvör Menuez 251

When It Comes to Sex and Gender, You're Right Kate Bornstein 259

'Everyone's Trans, Now What?' Travis Alabanza 269

Community and Organising

A Better Connection Wolfgang Tillmans 279

Ceaseless Struggles, Infinite Possibilities: Finding Liberation in Queer History Matthew Riemer 285

Allyship Starts at Home Riyadh Khalaf 291

San Francisco Madison moore 303

Global Grassroots Funding Leticia Opio 313

I Am My Grandmother's Daughter Phyll Opoku-Gyimah 319

Doing Better Adam Eli 325

Resources 335

Acknowledgements 339