Author Archives: Emily Garside

…will five years from now me care? ‘Will five years from now me care?’ That’s a question I’ve started asking myself about big life decisions, rejections, disagreements, and relationships. How much will I think about this thing in five years? Do I have a five-year plan? No. As Phoebe Buffay once said, I don’t even have aContinueContinue reading “Five years from now”

or the not the Edinburgh Fringe blog. This is not a blog about the Edinburgh Fringe. But it is about what the Fringe makes me think about every year, and that is: You don’t have to do the thing. Finally, I think I really believe it. First and foremost, all love to the Fringe and all theContinueContinue reading “Should we stop with 'should'”

Oh hi I’m the problem its me…Oh, hi it’s been a minute. (hi it’s me I’m the problem its me) When I say I’ve had a long-ish list of blog posts I’ve wanted to write for several months ranging from book reviews to Taylor Swift to thoughts on Pride (ok, we need to admit we’ve missedContinueContinue reading “Books and Burnout”

A walk down memory lane and a reminder I survivedI wrote a blog back last October about revisiting Montreal. A city I spent one of the most formative years of my life. I hadn’t been back since then, and it was both cathartic and, as I wrote in that blog, really hard to leave againContinueContinue reading “Places I've cried (Nottingham edition)”

Or how regret and relief can coexist I’ve sat with and struggled with this in equal measure all week. I don’t talk much anymore about my academic or failed academic life. But this week was 8 years since I got the official ‘pass’ letter for my PhD and frankly, I can’t help feeling a littleContinueContinue reading “Eight Years post PhD”

Earlier this week I did a launch of my forthcoming book on Russell T Davies (see here). Meanwhile, on Twitter, I launched (softly) my book on Rent. Which frankly looks like I’m both utterly smashing it and writing with the speed and veracity of Alexander Hamilton. But I wanted to lift the lid on what thatContinueContinue reading “On doing the writing juggle.”

a blog book launch! Thanks for reading Queer Notebook ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Today’s blog is a (hopefully) exciting one where I get to announce my forthcoming book properly…‘Queer Aliens and Gay Folks, how Russell T Davies changed TV’ Out on 21st September 2023, published by the lovely CalonContinueContinue reading “Gay Aliens and Queer Folks how Russell T Davies changed TV”

Bank holiday thoughts from a single Asexual 30-something. May in the UK is a seemingly endless Bank Holiday. Something about a Crown next week and Easter only just happened and it seems like we’re in an endless sea of Mondays without focus. And while I am very glad of the days off, the ‘expectation vContinueContinue reading “You don't need a perfect weekend, you don't need a partner to do it with…”

Or how I ended up thanking him in a book about Angels in America I first wrote this blog in 2021, but after finding out Noah Reid is going back on tour, it seems appropriate to share the unedited (except for typos) moment of how his music made me feel at that time. I appreciateContinueContinue reading “'Hold On' How Noah Reid's Music has kept me going”

Or how my voice, is my voice. I teach a Queer Literature course. My final session is about Fan Fiction. It’s part of the bigger conversation about how we ‘Queer’ narratives or reclaim them (or both). But it’s also about that gap in the literature, in culture many Queer people feel. And have for manyContinueContinue reading “How fanfiction helped me find myself (and my own stories)”