(Content Warning – Talking about Transphobia, Bigotry, Hate Crime, Violence, Murder) When Sophie Lancaster was murdered I felt sick. I felt like she was punished somehow for society deeming it unacceptable to beat up the QUILTBAG and people who weren’t white or practiced different religions. As if hatred and anger cares about respectability. It felt … Read More
Ok I’m doing new prompts for this pride month. I did two years with the previous ones, and I’m starting with my favourite content creators. I’m not sure I like the term content creators by the way, I’m pretty sure artists covers all bases… but in anycase. Over on instagram I follow the Uncle Davids, … Read More
I’ve written before about how coming out is never one moment, it’s a continual process in a world where straight is still the default. (A slight aside here, today I accompanied a client to the doctor’s and was asked if I was a friend or partner in a situation that would not have been read … Read More
Last year I named my ultimate, life-long Queer Icon. This year I’m going to name the person who has been most Queerly Iconic to me, and that absolutely has to be Symone. She’s the Drag Race winner of this year but that’s not what makes her iconic to me. What makes her iconic to me … Read More
The prompt for today is my favourite way of interacting with the queer community. My instinctive answer seems strange to me, because it’s dancing. I’m not really a big dancer, I mean that it’s not something I know much about. I got told to leave a ballet class as a child because I have no … Read More
Last year I wrote about having a community of elders rather than a single mentor. This year I’m returning to the notion of what mentorship actually is, my sister is involved in a more formal mentorship program, obviously this isn’t a Queer thing this is a Woman thing cause my sister at least claims to … Read More
Last year I was all about Pride and learning the darker sides of LGBT history (which apparently gets lost as soon as you mention anything that touches upon people who really go into eugenics, which means a lot of people in the early twentieth century unfortunately). But today I found out another person that makes … Read More
“Share a coming out story” is the prompt today, it’s always going to be ‘a’ even if it’s mine because, as I stated last year all of us who are ‘straight passing’, so all of us vaguely femme bisexual women, are always sodding coming out. Yes I know butch lesbians and all the other flavours … Read More
Last year I had a good time reconnecting with me hella queer roots by taking part in #RemotePrideMonth – sure we’re opening up again but some of us are still doing weekly COVID tests and not hugging our families without some serious risk assessments. So I’m going to do it again. These are the prompts. … Read More
This one was an easy prompt, I knew exactly the photo. It’s from Lancaster’s first Pride. There’s me and a number of nerdy queers wearing t-shirts that I had made with queer versions of the LURPS dragon on them. The sign I’m wielding is in support of the Georgian LGBT organisation that was at the … Read More
