Author Archives: Emily Garside

Thoughts on fitting in…or not. Are we spending our days hiding in a cactus like Tim the penguin? maybe….‘If I’m too much, go find less.’ To jump on the TikTok trend (yeah, I’m down with the kids) based on Elyse Mysers’ video, I, too, invite people in my life to ‘go find less.’ But more thanContinueContinue reading “If I'm too much, go find less (And I'll find more)”

Thoughts on theatre-social media mentality. It’s ok not to see all the theatre. It’s ok not to love all the theatre. I’m not sure why these are slightly controversial takes, but here we are. It’s something I’ve seen more and more of lately, the idea that if you’re not going to ALL THE THINGS then you’re notContinueContinue reading “You Don't have to see everything…you don't have to love everything”

Given everyone else is getting to add their 2 cents this week….While this isn’t going to become a blog just about ADHD and autism, a few weeks from the diagnosis and with both being in the news, this seemed a good time to catch up on here. I’ve also had many people ask about where IContinueContinue reading “More ADHD and Autism thoughts”

Because clearly I needed to be ‘trendy’ with somethingI didn’t intend to write this right now. But life has a way of intervening, and perhaps it’s actually a useful thing to document the process, not just some point of hindsight down the line. So here it is: before Christmas, I discovered I have ADHD, andContinueContinue reading “Another Millennial with ADHD (oh and Autism too)”

or my own personal non-numerical reading challenge. For 2022 I set myself a reading challenge. Not a numbers-based one, mostly because competitive reading irks me (so judge away if you think I didn’t read ‘much’ this year). Instead, I set myself the challenge only to read Queer books for a year. I wasn’t sure how easyContinueContinue reading “A year of reading Queer”

or ‘here’s what you might have missed’ As it’s the time to be doing ‘round ups’ I figured why not corral some of my favourite pieces from this year into one post? I’ve not written as much this year as previously in the form of articles and blogs, but there are still a few I’mContinueContinue reading “2022 Writing round up”

Or ‘no I’m not seeing family this Christmas and that’s ok actually’ Yesterday, during a rant about people who are excessively ‘Christmassy,’ and obsessed with ‘family time’  my mother looked me dead in the face and said; ‘Yes, but you don’t have any family.’ Thanks for reading Queer Notebook ! Subscribe for free to receive new postsContinueContinue reading “It's ok to be a weird family at Christmas”

or rejections 2022. So another year, another set of rejections. I’ve been logging them for three years now. For those unfamiliar, I do the ‘Rejection Pot’ idea, where I put a bit of money aside for every rejection and spend it at the end of the year. I always start with high hopes of loggingContinueContinue reading “Not standing still, lying in wait”

or November and end of year anxiety or is it apathy? creeping in. It’s been a ‘sad penguin’ sort of week for various reasons. And maybe this year’s wider ‘Sad Penguin-ness’ is another post too. But I realised last week that November feels pretty ‘meh’ as a month. Made me think not end-of-year panic butContinueContinue reading “On feeling 'not enough'”

or you can go home again. In this blog I write about Montreal, which sits on the lands of the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) and Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee) please take some time to read about them and why Land Acknoledgement is important. Thanks for reading Queer Notebook ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support myContinueContinue reading “Places I've cried in Montreal”