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Meg-John Barker


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June 23, 1974

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Dr. Meg-John Barker is a writer, therapist, and activist-academic specialising in sex, gender and relationships. Their popular books include the (anti-)self-help relationship book Rewriting the Rules, The Secrets of Enduring Love (with Jacqui Gabb), Queer: A Graphic History (with Julia Scheele), and Enjoy Sex, How, When and If You Want To (with Justin Hancock). Meg-John is a senior lecturer in psychology at the Open University and has published many academic books and papers on topics including non-monogamous relationships, sadomasochism, counselling, and mindfulness, as well as co-founding the journal Psychology & Sexuality and the activist-research organisation BiUK. They were the lead author of The Bisexuality Report – which has informed ...more

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The Best of The Trauma Super Conference

The Best of the Trauma Super Conference

In advance of our new book, How to Understand Your Relationships (last book in our How to Understand Your… series), Alex Iantaffi and I are made up that our interview about trauma patterns in relationships with Jaï Bristow is being included in the best of the Trauma Super Conference.

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Sexuality: A Graphic Guide

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“Knowing who we are, what we want, and being able to express our needs, wants, and desires - so that we can find others to share them - makes us poor targets for capitalism, because we can now access intimacy in many ways, with several beings, and even by ourselves. This type of knowing is rooted in radical self-care, an acceptance of interdependence, and radical self-love.”
Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

“If heterosexuality was just natural, it wouldn’t need to work so hard to shore itself up, and it wouldn’t be so threatened by the alternatives to it.”
Meg-John Barker, Queer: A Graphic History

“Limits on people's capacities to conduct activities that are essential to everyday life are imposed by structural and systemic barriers. These barriers are part of a social system that regards some bodies as "normal" and some as "other", rather than considering a broad range of bodies and possibilities, for example when designing a building or piece of furniture. This relegates people with disabilities to the status of lesser citizens because of their lack of access. Disability is a byproduct of a society which is organized around only certain bodies which are defined as "normal", in laws, education, institutions, and in popular culture.”
Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

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