Blog Posts

Reflections on performative mourning and how we’re told how to grieve… This is not about the Queen, though I guess it’s not about the Queen. Many of us might agree that this weird compulsory grieving for the Queen is weird. More so the performative aspect of it (someone, please write me a piece on State…

A few months into being ‘out’ some thoughts on the good, the bad and the isolating of being Ace in an Allo world. I set up this blog to reflect on my relationship to queerness as much as to comment on queer culture. So this is one of those blogs.  Given it’s been just over…

A year on since my first book made it into the world, some thoughts. Happy Book Birthday to my little pink book!  A year ago, at the end of Pride month, my first book made it out into the world. ‘Love that Journey for Me; the queer revolution of Schitt’s Creek’ wasn’t a book I…

On figuring out my asexual voice and the stories I’m ready to tell. This past week I was at a scriptwriting retreat, and I went with a pitch for an asexual-themed play. This is a blog about all those things (and written on a train, sleep-deprived and introvert-social-battery-drained).  It’s a whole mish-mash of complex things,…

Reading Schitt’s Creek’s Patrick Brewer as demisexual — and why it matters. I read Patrick Brewer from Schitt’s Creek as demisexual. This reading changed my life, made me realise I identify as asexual, but also fits a reading of the character in a way that’s interesting, makes sense and maybe adds a little more depth…