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Gender and Sexualities

Gender and Sexualities

Sexuality has an overwhelming influence on how human life is organised. In different cultures and at different times in history, sex has been regarded in greatly varying ways, ranging from a complete physical and spiritual experience to a deadly sin. Since regulating sexuality and sexual behaviour is exercising power and control, there has always been stigma associated with a variety of sexual orientations, acts and practices, stigma that has sometimes even led to the exclusion, imprisonment or even death of their exponents. In spite of this, sexual variety exists even in the most oppressive kinds of society, as nature prevails over prejudice and repression. This project seeks to explore and discuss the various kinds of sexuality, sexual orientations and sexual practices and to identify ways to paint sexualities in a positive and stigma-free light.

Key Themes Being Explored

  • Intimacy and Love

  • Kink

  • Sexual Agency

  • Sexual and Gendered Violence

  • Sexual Citizenship

  • Sexuality and Technology

  • The Erotic

Upcoming Events

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Malcolm Alexander - Ulendo
Alec: The Father I Barely Knew

I never really knew my father. He died when I was eight. The news was devastating. Unbelievable. True to the spirit of the time, life carried on and I was back in school on Monday morning.

Aspects Of....Water

Further details available in September 2025. New event in 2026.

The aim of the series is to consider water from a variety of inclusive and interdisciplinary perspectives

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Music Measures Memories -
The Diaries of a Melomaniac

Jamie Robertson

Measuring my life with music has helped me recall experiences both good and bad but more importantly, it has enabled a healing process that I hadn’t realised I needed until I began writing my story.

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