As a memoir in essays, this is a big change. I'm telling my own stories..but also a broader story about changes in queer life around the Millennium: from private to public; disconnected to online; gay and lesbian to queer and trans; AIDS as death sentence to manageable condition (for some) etc.

I'd also wager this was a mainly English sample because in Scotland c*nt is used differently, and 'cow' would surely be on the highly offensive list. Another gendered insight!

Thanks. I will try again! Teaching resources seem to be so ephemeral 🤔

On a slight tangent, this reminds me of a Cambridge conversation over dinner about 'the difference between Oxford and Cambridge queers' (yes, I know alll very elitist, but there was a good point underlying it!) ... and I think, unwittingly, it was a discussion about neurodiversity.

I first read that as ‘a friend of Dorothy’ - something wrong with my brain!