Do you know who I am?
I now recognise and identify as Non Binary gender (AMAB). Over the years I have often felt like a fellow traveller, an ally. I’m an artist. I guess I’m an…
Browsing: Arts Crafts & Entertainment
The Weird and Wonderful Battleground of Gender Identity within the world of contemporary Sporting Fashion
The world of sport and sporting culture has always existed as a strange parallel universe alongside normal everyday life and like myself, many of you reading this will enjoy engaging…
Surrendering to Who You Are
Gender dysphoria is like a badly cut suit; it rubs in all the wrong places. Dysphoria is probably one of the most painful emotional experiences, but then I don’t have…
Roots Between the Tides, a project for Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival
[Image: a close up photograph of a selection of colourful, preserved moths. They have been nailed to down to a board and labelled. There are dark coloured wires encircling some…
A Journey into Academia: Trans*Studies 2
I am yet to unpack my suitcase, or to sleep through a night – but I am back from my trip to the University of Arizona. The conference was, not…
Makeup is Art Beyond the Binary, Selfies are Self Portraits
Little brown girls grow up knowing there are limitations to their existence and it is their image that is at the core of these limits. You may feel like a…
A Journey into Academia: Trans*Studies
I am packing a bag for a brief stint to Arizona, to attend my first academic conference: Trans*Studies: an International Transdisciplinary Conference on Gender, Embodiment, and Sexuality. I am not…
Do you wear trousers or skirts?
CN: Discussion of gendered bathroom use, mentions of genitalia. I haven’t done the research, this is unsubstantiated supposition, but I’m pretty sure that the majority of the UK uses mixed…
The Binary Box
CN: gender dysphoria, nonbinary erasure, cis normativity. I hate this box that’s carved out of my own skin and trapped within my own mind. The longing I constantly feel for…