aunts

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have found that aunts play a crucial role in supporting the well-being of their LGBTQ youth relatives, including preventing them from experiencing homelessness. These findings are published in Socius, an open access journal. The research paper, coauthored by Brandon Andrew Robinson, associate professor and…

Aunts have always had a place close to my heart. Long before I was one, they were some of my favourite characters in fiction; a diverse array of extraordinary women – some strict and forbidding, others supportive and comforting and others – always my favourites – riotously glamorous, with a healthy disrespect for rules, regulations and societal norms. Aunts came to prominence in Victorian fiction, opening it to unconventional and vibrant female characters who broke with the maternal norm. Often widowed – or determinedly…