cruising the internet, july 2025
a round-up of cool things by cool people to help you think differently about gender
Welcome to Genderbent, a newsletter about gender, transmasculinity, and mental illness by journalist and sex writer Quinn Rhodes.
Hi, hello! This month I'm experimenting with sending cruising the internet – my round-up of recommendations curated to encourage you to think more deeply about gender – as its own newsletter.
you can find me
- In the latest edition of Gay Times Magazine, writing the absurd, self-contradictory, and transphobic mess that is the UK Government's new Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) guidance – and exploring whether it signals a return to Section 28.
let's talk about gender
- Franki de la Cretaz wrote about the New York Liberty's partnership with Vagisil – a brand who profit of misogyny and misinformation by selling products that can actually cause the problems they pretend to fix. "[The Liberty's] partnerships are coming, more and more, at the expense of the values the league and its teams claim to espouse. And selling their fans “empowerment” in the form of bodily shame feels like one hell of a misstep."
- I really enjoyed Mel Woods' piece reminding us that summer 2025 is all about the moustache – and that the moustache is very queer. Woods is among the trans guys embracing it as a symbol of self-made masculinity, which I'm very here for. "Patchy overgrown beard Mel was anxious and overheated. But moustache Mel? Moustache Mel is fun and flirty and just a little bit silly."
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