HOW TO: TRANS AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS
It's #TransAwarenessWeek and I'm here with some advice on taking part in awareness and visibility campaigns: The nuance of visibility, safety and privilege is something to carry through to national celebrations of LGBTQ and POC communities as well as awareness days of...
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HOW TO: GENDER DYSPHORIA FIRST AID
Distract yourself by any means necessary; don’t underestimate distraction as a coping mechanism. 🩺 Get into your body. exercise, dance, stretch, massage, bathe, moisturise. be with your body in all these non gendered, neutral and soothing ways. Move in ways that...
Support Hub
Whether it's winter, pandemic, 2020 endings or new year beginnings, you might need a bit of support and you absolutely deserve it. This cosy hub was built with queer, trans, people of colour youth in mind. Made with love and care. So find what you need, take what you...
Dear Sabah
2nd November marks the beginning of #YouthWorkWeek 2020 and I’m going to start with a message to a young person: to myself. “What would you say to your younger self?” I get asked this question a lot. But I don’t often think about my answer. Actually, I don’t often...
HOW TO: SOCIAL MEDIA SELF CARE
/ Turn off notifications. / When I keep my notifications off, I have to actively open apps to check my notifications & inboxes. If they're off, I check them less and I'm not distracted by negative thoughts or pressure about the number of unreads. / Use an app...
grief
I don’t know what your roses need but I pretend I do anyway. I hold each bud between finger and thumb and wash off greenflies. One by one. I pull off dying leaves with black spots and give up on windy days. (I always stop my friends to smell the roses.) I stroke the...
GULP
I wrote this for the launch of GULP, a new zine telling the stories of LGBTQ+ people with eating disorders. You can download it for free here. This the first time I have been this honest, open and raw about my own disordered eating. Tangled. Complicated. Confusing....
A New Normal
I find myself stuck between thoughts and screens, half written actions, lists and notes to self. I start a conversation, but halfway through I’m wondering if I need to say something about what’s going on. I take a selfie, but before sharing it, I’m wondering if I need...
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