Category is: Culture
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
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Sometimes I just can’t stop thinking about Matthew Lillard
Out with self-censoring, in with obsession
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Celluloid dreams: films I watched in 2024
Set the intention to watch more films this year. Here’s how it’s going so far…
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Loved list: 2023 💖
An annual compendium of books, essays, music, films and other things I’ve been into over the course of the year.
Read moreThree magickal anthologies about witchcraft
Samhain is upon us once again, so I’m sharing three of my favourite essay collections about witchcraft and magick…
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Rainbows and riots: queer reading recommendations for Pride 2023
Pride is a protest, baby, and it happens all year round. But in the meantime, summer is here and so is pride season, so here’s some queer essays I’ve loved reading recently…
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Loved list: 2022 💖
Every year, I devour things and love them hard. The ones that stick with me most get shared in my newsletter throughout the year, and the loved list is a collection collaged together from there. In this edition, you’ll find the books and essays that had the most impact on my head and heart as I moved through 2022.
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I’m in love with a monster: 3 books about monsters I loved in 2022
Samhain is coming closer, nights are getting longer, things are lurking in the shadows. And a time of embracing darkness seems the perfect moment to share a trio of books about monsters that I read and loved this year.
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