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WORDS BY KATIE BASKERVILLE What It Feels Like For A Girl, a television adaptation of Paris Lees’ experimental, exhilarating memoir, has just dropped on BBC iPlayer. Here’s where you might recognise its creator. If you’re anything like us, you’ve already binge-watched What It Feels Like For A Girl, the catty, chaotic coming-of-age story following a young Byron (played by Ellis Howard) as they navigate growing up queer in the Midlands during the early aughts.  While the show taps into the current wave of Y2K nostalgia sweeping our screens, is actually an…

Katie Baskerville interrogates the resurgence of hypervigilance around sexual identity after watching Overcompensating, and finds out if anything has changed for Gen-Z folks coming out today. WORDS BY KATIE BASKERVILLE Overcompensating is a raucous show that has had me in stitches and deep in my feelings from the get-go, from its relatable moments to its bi representation (yay!). However, the undertones of those laugh-out-loud moments have an unmistakably sobering effect for someone like me.  Being a teenager in the era of the low-rise jeans, the Motorola flip phone and, who…