Category is: Identity

Six tarot cards for summer solstice

Heatwave-melted and pre-menstrual, plans for a collective solstice ritual with pals sent sideways by illness, I piled cushions on the floor, curled up with Cosmo and pulled six tarot cards (and then some bonus ones) for the six months between this solstice and next…

Dear Damsels anthology So Long As You Write, open to the first page of Jane's essay

F🤬ck (your) demons + find community

On finding and trusting my voice, coming out, being scared, being safe and being heard…

Draw me like one of your French girls

On life drawing, learning to love my body and getting naked in my mate’s basement

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