After a pandemic’s worth of hard work, The Trans Guide to Mental Health and Well-Being is now well into production! The book comes out April 2022 and, in the meantime, the Jessica Kingsley Publishing team and I are finishing off the last of the copy edits and designing the front cover. I’m so excited for … Continue reading The Trans Guide to Mental Health and Well-Being – Six Months To Go!
I'm delighted and excited to share my episode of Queers & Co Podcast with you! The Queers & Co podcast is hosted by the lovely Gem Kennedy, with each episode featuring a different LGBTQ+ change-maker. It's a great chance to hear queer folk chat candidly about self-empowerment, body liberation, and activism. You might also remember … Continue reading Queers & Co Podcast
A Poem Grown In The Dark, August 2020 In autumn before-times My plan was to keep My hyacinth bulbs, left In darkness to sleep. In springtime, in lockdown, I set the bulbs free. To my horror, my plants Had been following me. They could not be contained. They had been locked away Without water or … Continue reading A Poem Grown In The Dark
I'm now nine months in to writing the trans and non-binary guide to good mental health! I signed my contract in early November 2019 and started writing in earnest in January 2020, after taking time to wrap my head around what I had to do (plus celebrate the holidays). Although my productivity took a hit … Continue reading Progress
Meet My Coach My coach is Gem Kennedy, a transformational coach and Emotional Freedom Technique (otherwise known as 'tapping') practitioner. They're also an activist, ex-dieter, queer person, parent to free-range children, podcaster, and zinester. If all of that makes them sound really cool, that's because they are. Image description: Gem, who has plum-coloured wavy hair … Continue reading Transforming Through Coaching, with Gem Kennedy
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I originally wrote An Arrow in the Side of in 2009, and I've tinkered with it to bring it up to date. It's a little fantasy story about love and purpose and it was inspired by, and named for, this song. An Arrow in the Side of Her vases were filled with peacock feathers, pink … Continue reading An Arrow in the Side of
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About a month ago, when I featured in The Body Love Box, I was interviewed by the legendary Lindley Ashline. Lindley is a photographer, blogger, and fat activist who centres marginalised voices and bodies in her work. It was an absolute pleasure to be interviewed by her and to talk about my work, my values, … Continue reading My Interview with Lindley Ashline
Hello! Here are three poems that I wrote and thought were great about a decade ago! I'm not sure how I feel about them now, except that these are the closest thing to a time machine I'll ever have. I spent a lot of time being sad, bi, and lovelorn when I was 18, and … Continue reading Three Poems I Wrote when I was Eighteen
