Bi-erasure is an insidious thing. It directly causes biphobia, something that’s not exclusive cishet people but something done by the LGTQ community too. And it’s everywhere, from the reactions to strangers on the street (or at PRIDE events) to the...
Sometime last year I stopped writing cishet characters and focused all my writing on queer ones. It was definitely a conscious decision. I was writing less and less cishet characters anyway, maybe subconsciously, I’m not sure. More femslash, more non-binary...
I’m trying to raise a tiny human. It’s not an easy ride, but then parenting never is. It’s hard for everyone for different reasons, for me it’s a mix of mental health problems and trying to raise a kid encumbered...
I turned 37 at the beginning of the month. Not a milestone age, not a particularly memorable age to most but I realised something, well, a few things, about my mental health. In November it will be ten years since...
9584 Words I’m a little behind in both making this post and my word count. April hasn’t been a great month again – for writing or personally, though I wrote more than in March (about 3k more). I made good...
There are lots of things to worry about when you send a kid to nursery. Will they get along with the staff, the other children, the change in routine? Will they miss us. Will they miss us at all or...
I’ve been too harsh little one, too harsh and I don’t mean it but I stick with it sleepily in the dead of night at the very edge of my limits and when you have none, but that’s not your...
I must be dreaming, because I swear section 28 was repealed but it feels like we’ve gone back in time. Four schools in Birmingham have stopped teaching children that LGBTQ people exist. Hundreds of homophobic parents are protesting outside one...
