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Loved list: 2024 💖

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

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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…

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

Jane Claire Bradley with her chapbook Lost + Found

Getting LOST + FOUND

Late last year, I got into my sixth-hand little Toyota late at night, driving through freezing fog down a series of almost-empty motorways to get to my friend’s adorable witch cottage, light glowing in the front window of the narrow terrace at the end of the path.