Katy Lees – LGBTQ+ Mental Health Author
Writing about LGBTQ+ Mental Health, Fiction, & Other Queer Ideas
Every once in a while, I get naked for money in the name of art. Life modelling is the craft of maintaining a pose, or several poses, over a specific period of time while people draw you. This can mean keeping one pose for several hours, or working through numerous short poses. It's often a … Continue reading How to Work as a Life Model
There's no big blog post this Saturday because I'm taking some time off to rest and celebrate this weekend. I'd usually feel bad about this, but it's been such a busy end of December for me and mine - plus, feeling frantic about rest periods is something I'm gently trying to unlearn. Both of my … Continue reading Rest
There are three important things that you should know about me. I am: 1) obsessed with Christmas, 2) a fan of fantastically ugly clothes, and 3) not easily embarrassed in public. December is the time when all of this comes together in a perfect storm and the worst of my wardrobe comes out. It's amazing … Continue reading Four Horrible Christmas Things that I am Excited to Wear to Your Sensible Grown-Up Holiday Party
EDIT: As of 2020 and JK Rowling's hugely transphobic comments, neither of us are fans of Harry Potter anymore, whether critically or not. Neither of us buy any Harry Potter merchandise anymore or give any money to JK Rowling. As someone with a long history of talking about books online, I got the idea a … Continue reading Three Books My Girlfriend Says You Should Read
I am never sure how my girlfriend doesn't pass. She's curvy with long pink hair and a dimpled smile that lights up a room. Her skin is soft and her lips are plump. She listens, loudly, to music that I consider embarrassingly girly (I have some unsorted toxic masculinity to work out - it's a … Continue reading On Passing
This year I'm participating in NaNoWriMo and I am feeling all kinds of emotions about it! Each year, National Novel Writing Month participants try to complete a 50,000 word novella in November. It means you've got one month to create a first draft of something to polish and sculpt at your leisure after the month … Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2018
I've been recording one second of video every day since I moved across England to live with my girlfriend. It's been pretty helpful for my mental health - it's a way of documenting moods and occasions while learning to process them in a different way. I tried to film how each day went, instead of … Continue reading July 16th – October 16th 2018
Katy Lees - LGBTQ+ Mental Health Author 