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Hope can be a dangerous thing

Posted on 27 June 201927 June 2019by #BDB

(This article contains spoilers for the first four books of the Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard.) These past six months, I’ve been reading the Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard. It began as a way to get closer to Berena without watching Holby City after the emotional turmoil of December – Catherine Russell plays […]

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Another #BuryYourGays trope: It ‘Kana’ be true!

Posted on 28 January 201914 March 2019by #BDB
Kate and Rana (Coronation Street)

To all in the #Kana fandom we feel your pain. This week Bhavna Limbachia, the actor who plays Coronation Street’s Rana Nazir, took to social media with a video message to fans confirming that her journey on the soap will be coming to an end. In the same message she revealed that she and her producer […]

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About us

(Read our founding principles and code of conduct.)

#BerenaDeservedBetter is a forum for people to voice their opinions about the representation of lesbian and bisexual women in popular culture and to take action to make storytellers and producers more accountable.

We set up this space spurned by the depiction of the couple popularly known as Berena in the UK TV drama Holby City, which is produced by the BBC, played by Jemma Redgrave (Bernie Wolfe) and Catherine Russell (Serena Campbell).

We are a group of people from across countries and timezones, across occupations and cultures and ages, gay and straight. Berena brought us together and touched our lives in different ways. We were promised a respectful representation but, in the end, we were given a mish-mash of the worst stereotypes about lesbians and bisexuals, and about women, not to mention about older women. It was wrong, and we decided we wouldn't be silent any more.

We invite you to join us in this campaign.

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