Pride Blog – Day 5 – Thoughts regarding inner turmoil about your sexuality; Did you have any? Did it escalate to self-injury or suicidal thoughts?

(Content Warning – you’ve seen the title you know what’s coming) I started this blog in my early twenties. I am now forty three. There has been turmoil about my sexuality and there have also been suicidal thoughts. To be fair I’ve mostly tried to avoid or make light of the Swamp. These days the … Read More


Pride Blog – Day 4 – The First Person I Came Out To and That Story

Coming Out Stories. Gods. Sometime’s it feels that’s all you’re doing as a queer person. I certainly have written about the first time I came out before. I’ve written about how, being femme and cis it feels like I have a duty to keep coming out – there’s no real good stories, it’s just continual … Read More



Pride Blog – Day 2 – Experiences as a Child that Foreshadowed my Sexuality

Mmm this one’s a weird one. I wrote about it a couple of years ago and honestly most of what I wrote about were feelings of community within the QUILTBAG. I’m not sure I had experiences as a child that really presaged my bisexuality. I’ve always enjoyed the company of men and women and I … Read More


Pride Month Blog – Day One – My Sexuality and Gender Identity

I’m coming back to a Pride Blog Challenge that I’ve done before but it’s a solid one. I’ve written about my sexuality and gender before so how am I feeling today? I’m a cis woman so my gender identity is a pretty simple thing to talk about – isn’t it? Forever I’ve been known to … Read More






Chinese New Year

I quite like Chinese New Year in Lancaster, there’s a parade and lions and I find that it’s infused a sense of Chinese cultural somethingness into my idea of how the year sins out. A bit like setsubun next week or Old Twelfth Night last week. I’m busy this afternoon so I shall miss the … Read More