Cameron Post looks the part of a perfect high school girl. But after she's caught with another girl in the backseat of a car, Cameron is quickly shipped off to a conversion therapy centre that treats teens "struggling with same-sex attraction."

Set during the 1990s, The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a throwback to a time of cassette tapes, frumpy knitwear and alternative rock music, but also one in which attitudes towards homosexual people were significantly more repressive in the US. However, this is not an issue of the past. A study released this January stated that 20,000 young people from the ages 13-17 will receive conversion therapy from a licensed health care professional by the time they're 18 (at least in the 41 states that currently do not ban the practice). The film is coincidentally released at a time in which the UK government is calling for a formal ban on conversion therapy, which fuels homophobia and instils self-hatred amongst recipients. This makes the film particularly relevant, with the questions that arise being apt for discussion on the oppression of sexuality, but also other struggles faced by teenagers such as bullying and moments of transition.