Gods I love Pride. I cannot even express how much I love Pride. I went to my first Pride in Tokyo in 2005. I marched with the Chestnut and Squirrel and DykeNetwork girls and I loved how it felt. How much community there was and how much feeling of Family. I also enjoy confusing people … Read More
I originally thought I wanted to share something contemporary. Raise the profile of someone currently creating. But the thing is, I love Art, I love Art History, that hasn’t changed since I was eighteen, well it might have deepened somewhat. There’s a period I have loved since I did my A Level personal project on … Read More
What song means a lot to me as a queer person? I mean I always find dancing to YMCA at straight weddings kinda hilarious but I’m thinking there should be something with a bit more substance to it. Something by the Indigo Girls or something. I’m not hugely into Rent nor do I see Rocky … Read More
I’m incredibly lucky in many ways. I’ve never been assaulted for being bi. I’ve been more directly discriminated against for being a Wiccan than for being bi. I’ve had more physical violence directed at me for being a woman and for my job than for being bi. What would I say to my younger self? … Read More
I mean, I kinda wish I could say ‘The L Word‘ or ‘But I’m A Cheerleader‘, both of which I saw at my Queer coming of age in The Women’s Centre, Saitama. But of course no such luck. I have a feeling that the first Queer person that I knew was Queer would have been … Read More
I mean I’m a woman with a public diary. I’ve had this website for a while and I’ve been putting up my private diary entries since 2003… However, it’s not like there are a lot of people still reading this so, what do I wish that every straight person knew about me? I’m not ‘just … Read More
Write something Queer is today’s prompt. Alrighty then. It’s a bit open ended in all honesty. Being queer is like a dream about flying. There’s the sky and the clouds and the whole world laid out beneath you and it feels amazing and there’s an awesome view. But sometimes you plummet and you’re wondering how … Read More
I know at least one bisexual woman (who for the longest time I assumed was straight) who absolutely hates the idea that I would describe her like that. There’s a bit in The L Word where Melissa Etheridge describes herself as labelfree and the entirity of the main cast roll their eyes. (At that point … Read More
I think everyone has a number of Queer mentors, they fulfil different inspirations for you. Or me at any rate, that’s how my brain works. Kate Bornstein is far and away the woman I have said most often, “I want to be her when I grow up.” I even have a get out of hell … Read More
Whew. Critical of something in the Quiltbag. It’s hard to be critical out here in front of the Straights. Because I grew up in a world where the Queer world was criticised and attacked the idea of critiquing Home means I’m worried it will read like the type of attacks that I hated as a … Read More
