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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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How I decided to walk 100 miles across Spain
The long journey to the Camino Frances, and the first couple of days along the way…
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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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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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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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It’s been a year since I got onstage
For several years pre-pandemic, August and the months leading up to it meant only one thing: Edinburgh Fringe.
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Latrinalia
There are many reasons rock pubs, queer clubs and dive bars will forever have my heart, but I’ve always loved the sexy, sad, political or downright surreal scrawls on their toilet walls.
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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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