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“The first time I met another gay person I broke out in a cold sweat.”
This article was originally written for a private zine about coming out experiences, and has now been published on LiberateYourself.co.uk. ...this is quite nice. You know, I was writing my CV today and...
View ArticleWhat It Actually Feels Like to be Autistic
Imagine you’ve gone to a different country, one where people speak your language but the way they live their lives is completely different to how you do it. Any time you ask someone a question, like...
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Some pieces on drugs – March 2012
This blog seems to be getting a bit off-track on other stuff while I tone down my blogging in order to write my dissertation, so I should document some blog posts I posted on the Re:Vision Drug Policy...
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What is it like on a March? A Very Short Guide
Votes for Women March 1915 Going on a march is exciting. Its a great feeling to march with loads of other people for something that you all believe in. No-one ever changed anything through doing...
View ArticleReligious People can be Gay – Get Over it!
Talking about gay marriage is all the rage at the moment, as one of the last legal barriers towards full equality. There’s other things that we need to talk about, like hate crime, and homophobia in...
View ArticleReligious gay marriage ban will only cover Anglicans now. Woo.
This coalition government in the UK is a funny one. Having gone to such effort to make it clear that their same sex marriage consultation was regarding civil marriage only, having faced down a major...
View ArticleThe Pope’s resigned! What does that mean for LGBT people?
Yesterday, 11 February 2013, Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican enforcer, “God’s Rottweiler” and paradoxically, the “teaching Pope” and author of a pastoral letter to the world’s Catholics praising sexual...
View ArticleThe internet and the people who use it are quite real.
I was 11 years old when I first received what the internet was. I’d been shown previously how to turn on a modem and then use a computer to play computer games, and at some point I joined Neopets...
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Digital Marketing Show – Epic Win
I used Grammarly’s proofreading software for this post because curiosity killing teh cat. I have “marketing” written on my Twitter profile, but so does every other “part-time digital marketing...
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“Polarised is important because… of Homophobia.”
Originally published on EQView on behalf of the Polarised Project, a documentary on LGBT mental health. While the general acceptance of LGBT people has happened faster than I can hardly believe when I...
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Lexit: After Article 50 – Jeremy Corbyn and the Hain Amendment
Originally posted to Facebook in March 2017 and edited (including the comments of others) into a semi-coherent stand-alone piece. In March 2017, Theresa May passed the legislation necessary to invoke...
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Lexit: After Article 50 – Some Inconvenient Truths
Since Article 50 was triggered, there are some recurring themes in the EU debates that rage across my social life that warrant some scrutiny. It’s always good to fact-check, and I’m afraid you are...
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Peter Reynolds Falls Beneath the Wheels of Justice
As some of you may remember, I was sued for libel by Peter Reynolds, President (“irrevocable until death”) of CLEAR-Cannabis Law Reform, for posting a variety of things that he didn’t like on my blog,...
View ArticleWhat It Actually Feels Like to be Autistic
Imagine you’ve gone to a different country, one where people speak your language but the way they live their lives is completely different to how you do it. Any time you ask someone a question, like...
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Some pieces on drugs – March 2012
This blog seems to be getting a bit off-track on other stuff while I tone down my blogging in order to write my dissertation, so I should document some blog posts I posted on the Re:Vision Drug Policy...
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Shakespeare Slam – Troilus and Cressida
Part of my effort to see every Shakespeare play. We kick off our quest with a RSC live broadcast of Troilus and Cressida at Vue Wood Green. Troilus and Cressida is one of Shakepeare’s rarest performed...
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Shakespeare Slam – King Lear
Part of my effort to see every Shakespeare play. Well, that was…intense. Ian McKellen was asked by the Chicester Festival Theatre, where he started his professional career many decades ago, if he...
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Shakespeare Slam – The Merry Wives of Windsor
Part of my effort to see every Shakespeare play. Merry Wives of Windsor was the first Shakespeare I’ve ever encountered that made no pretence to be literature, and is not treated as such by teachers...
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Shakespeare Slam: Richard III
Part of my effort to see every Shakespeare play. It seems to me, there are three types of professional Shakespeare production. One, the Shakespeare specialist companies, the RSC, the Globe etc. They...
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Shakespeare Slam: Richard II
Part of my effort to see every Shakespeare play. Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s most lyrical plays. Covering the final two years of Richard’s reign and chronicling his fall from power, it is one...
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