Category is: Culture

Glowing keyboard by Soumil Kamar via Pexels

The internet isn’t supposed to be like this

“I can see you as you are and love you sight unseen and be lonely with you on the other side of a strange and beautiful square of glowing plastic that contains nothing less than the future.”

Jane and Avadrian lying in bed after a day out at the Jorvik Viking Festival in February 2025

A queer punk day out at Jorvik Viking Festival 2025

Last weekend, I went to Jorvik Viking Festival for the first time.

Neon sign - 'find what you love and let it kill you'

Loved list: 2024 💖

A compilation of the books, films and more that I’ve loved in the past year…

NEVER EVER GIVE UP: In loving memory of Robin Guy

I’m heartbroken to be writing this. But I can’t not pay tribute to one of my favourite musicians of all time. At the end of last week, it was announced that Robin Guy had passed away, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about him since.

The queer alchemy of queer and trans health and healing

There’s a current of queerness running through the definition of alchemy: 1. a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way; 2. an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting. Queer and trans people are alchemists. We are mysterious, impressive, inexplicable and powerful. We are skilled in the art of transformation. – Zena Sharman, Queer Alchemy: Perverting the Health System, Fighting to Win