Go through enough Soundcloud rave mixes and you’ll likely come across a thick Slavic accent drooling stereotypical Russian buzzwords – “high track-speed, vodka no limit” – over a hard-bounce bassline. This is хардбас, or hardbass, a bizarre mutation in EDM’s already-contorted family tree that momentarily exploded the ears of Saint Petersburg’s perestroika-era youth at the end of the millennium only to slink into obscurity and, more recently, back out.

Drawing on a wealth of primary materials from the Middle Ages and an array of secondary literature, Staff Writer Jude Jones explores the how the body of Christ is fundamentally queer in an eloquent and sophisticated piece.

In a beautifully-written and moving piece, staff writer Jude Jones explores the legacy of Parisian author Guillaume Dustan, famous for his open rejection of contemporary taboos surrounding seropositivity and the queer community in the 1990s.

Staff Writer Jude Jones eloquently imagines an exchange between filmmaker Derek Jarman and artist Yves Klein, through the latter's 'International Klein Blue'.

Staff Writer Jude Jones offers a raw and moving account of the life and works of Hervé Guibert, highlighting the author’s fight against HIV stigma in late-twentieth century France.