Category is: Identity
The answers already inside us: self-trust and intuitive witchcraft
On a sleep-deprived autumnal Tuesday, I met up with a mate for coffee then ended up doing a ritual.
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We had a time, didn’t we?
Somehow it’s been an entire year since I stepped back from For Books’ Sake, the non-profit I founded and ran for over a decade.
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Queer utopias and mutual care
In the little box room study where I do my writing hangs a banner from Black Lodge Press. QUEER UTOPIAS ARE NOT FANTASIES, it says. QUEER UTOPIAS ARE NECESSITIES. And at a time when things feels far closer to dystopia than utopia, that’s something that’s been playing on my mind. I’ve been thinking a lot about the necessity of mutual care, and how we look after each other when times are tough.
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Making things, loving them and letting them go
Lately, I’ve been incubating some big changes. After eleven years as founder and director of For Books’ Sake, I’m stepping down to focus on other things.
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Chaos and adrenaline: on being two years sober
Lately I’ve needed to take things slow, and that’s something I haven’t always been good at. Chaos, on the other hand…
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On darkness and light: winter to summer solstice
Let’s rewind to six months ago. Deepest, darkest December. It’s bitterly cold and black outside. My alarm goes off, signalling 6am, and I creep out of the bedroom so I don’t wake my partner, then put on the clothes I’ve collected in the bathroom the night before.
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In praise of platonic intimacy
As we stand on the edge of another national lockdown, there’s a lot of things I’m finding hard. But one of the hardest is how much I’m missing a certain level of intimacy with my nearest and dearest pals.
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More comfortable being in my body than numb: a second sober birthday
It’s my birthday this weekend, and we’re in lockdown, so the celebration plans so far involve takeaway, homemade cake and rewatching Hackers for the millionth time. Which, y’know. Pretty good. Here’s another thing: this will be the second birthday I’ve spent sober.
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