Author Archives: Emily Garside

Or how I began my love for chasing things on ice. Back in May 2022, I decided to go to a hockey game. At worst, I’d have wasted about £15 and one random Saturday in April when I had nothing else to do anyway. At best…an all-consuming obsession?And it changed my life. It may have savedContinueContinue reading “Hockey is for everyone…even me”

Thanks for reading The Queer Notebook ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Pride month has come and gone and as ever all the Rainbows will retreat back to the hills from whence they came or something. We’ve had our allocation of being Super Duper Gay for another year and mustContinueContinue reading “The End of Pride and finding your own Pride”

Taylor is inescapable right now, and so if she isn’t for you, click away now it’s fine. Thanks for reading The Queer Notebook ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.But if you’re still here, this is me trying to remember this moment… It’s not just a concert…It was all ofContinueContinue reading “Chasing Dragons with Taylor”

On doing it with a neurodiverse brain, powering through and breaking down I have two other blogs that I should have written by now. Instead of writing this one, I spent 20 minutes sorting friendship bracelet beads into colours…it’s safe to say my brain and body are a bit broken right now. It’s been aContinueContinue reading “I can do it with a broken brain…”

‘My name is Taylor and I was born in 1989.’’Thanks for reading The Queer Notebook ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.The thought of hearing those words in a few days makes me want to cry. Finally seeing Taylor Swift live after being there, yes since she had a curlingContinueContinue reading “In my Taylor Era”

As Pride month is upon us and rainbows have exploded from every corporate orifice, it would be remiss of me not also to share some Pride thoughts…for those who find them perhaps out of step with the ‘community.’Thanks for reading The Queer Notebook ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Firstly,ContinueContinue reading “Pride, but not quite fitting in.”

On rejection, job hunting and feeling like you’ll never get there. I made my Twitter account ‘sad penguin time’ for the times you just feel…a bit sad. And honestly, it feels a bit like ‘sad penguin year’ right now. I’ve reached the point of the job-ending job-hunt cycle of just feeling like all hope isContinueContinue reading “Sometimes you cry. Sometimes it's too much.”

Have I broken up with the theatre properly this time? Is this also the longest break-up of my life…?Probably, but then theatre does have something of a toxic boyfriend air about it. This is, in fact, more of a decades-long situation with the kind of guy who brings a typewriter to your apartment (IYKYK).The firstContinueContinue reading “Breaking up with theatre (for real this time)”

I recently spoke with a fellow writer, someone also in their 40s, about how we’re just…tired of living like this. I honestly don’t feel like I’m asking for too much.When I look at how other folks my age live their lives, it’s not just the ones able to afford fancy holidays, nice cars, or whateverContinueContinue reading “On just being very tired”

For International Asexuality Day, how I’m affirming my Aceness in the world through creativityIt’s International Asexuality Day today, a day where we raise awareness about Asexuality…well internationally. It often feels like a lot of pressure to have ‘something’ to say about Asexuality all the time. And while I’ve got a few blogs on that now, includingContinueContinue reading “Writing an Asexual novel (or four) and why it matters on International Asexuality Day”