As I’ve said before I think this prompt does have an underlying assumption of the Abrahamic faiths. Paganism has its own issues, mostly surrounding the ease with which people can claim traditional gender roles are the only ones that count. I had problems with how other people perceived my religion but never really any problems … Read More
(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
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
I don’t have a nice concrete coming out story or gender affirmation story. I covered most of my earliest thoughts on gender and sexuality a couple of years ago. What I didn’t talk about was knowing what I didn’t want. I had heterosexuality patterned in front of me from the jump. If I think about … Read More
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
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
It’s easy enough when it’s a dead author to distance yourself from them whilst still enjoying their works. But what do you do when they’re still alive and creating? In J K Rowling’s case it’s been pretty easy not to engage with her continuing content, the Robert Galbraith stuff is just crap and the whole … Read More
I was driving along a particular junction in Lancaster today and I suddenly really wanted to go drink a beer in one of the skankiest pubs I’ve ever been to. It was a canal boat permanently moored up and reachable through basically a field and muddy footpath. The only reason I ever went to the … Read More
I am reaching the conclusion, gradually, that I find it easier to connect with my emotions, indeed I find it far easier to access my strongest emotions when multiple people are involved. Consider that when I got involved with the Jellicle Cat our most intense topic of conversation was Princess Lex who she was also … Read More
What do I want to end this on? That I feel more comfort within the LGBT community that anywhere else, occaisionally my life is thrown right up against very het community standards and assumptions and I just find them weird, and slightly cold. That I know that the LGBT community has it’s own problems but … Read More
