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Jane, Fiona and Avadrian onboard the Conwy Pirate Ship in May 2025

A weekend at Conwy Pirate Festival

Avast, ye filthy landlubbers. Time to shiver me timbers, set sail and walk the plank…

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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…

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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.”

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Jane onstage with Avadrian Night and a BSL interpreter during a live performance at Autumn Equinox in September 2024

The dead, the divine and the diabolical

In 2024, I became the first ever writer-in-residence at Queer Amusements, a brand new queer arts festival in Blackpool. I spent the summer developing new writing, which I performed for the first time during a one-off live spoken word ritual at the Autumn Equinox, the dead, the divine and the diabolical. Six months on from that night, I’m sharing three of my favourite pieces from the show…

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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.

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Forest image by Roman Datsiuk via Unsplash

Brain food: short stories devoured while writing my own

A process diary about the material shaping my collection-in-progress

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Draw me like one of your French girls

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

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Two weeks alone in Valencia

In the first few days of this year, I did something I’ve never done before. I travelled alone to another country, and stayed there for two weeks. I’ve been away by myself before, but only ever within the UK, and for a day or two at a time. Never this far or this long.

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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…

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Image of laptop with stickers via Svetlana Romashenko on Pexels

Five lessons from five years of Rebel Therapy

It’s somehow been five years this month since I started Rebel Therapy, my therapeutic practice supporting queers, creatives and non-conformists of all backgrounds towards healing, recovery and better mental health. Half a decade and literally thousands of client sessions later, here’s five of the things that have stuck with me most so far…

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