Review - Twenty Eight: Stories From the Section 28 Generation (Patreon)

Published:

2023-02-24 14:01:06

Imported:

2023-12

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While Twenty Eight is a heavy read, it is not a fatalist one. While its contributors across the board recognise the very real risk of similar legislation coming back into law, they recognise that we live in a very different world today, where keeping children in the dark about the fact they are living through an era of queer education suppression would be far more of a losing battle.

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Twenty Eight: Stories From the Section 28 Generation review - Trans Writes

Perhaps I am a little jaded by a world that centres a very specific kind of queer voice in discussions of historical fights for improved rights, but I came to this anthology expecting that I would largely be reading accounts of Margret Thatcher's clampdown on LGBTQIA+ "promotion" that frames the discussion very narrowly on homosexuality, and the direct impacts of the legislation during the specific set of years it was law.