Is being transgender, the new social pariah? I’ve been mulling over this idea now for a couple of months. As I’m seeing it more and more on the news and I’ve had a number of conversations about this with friends and colleagues. I see that the transgender community is definitely becoming more and more the …
Response to Rishi Sunak saying misgendering trans people is ‘common sense’
After the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak’s party conference speech this week, 4th October 2023, saying that misgender transgender people is ‘common sense’, I find myself feeling unsafe in my own country for the first time in my life. Pink News: Rishi Sunak says misgendering trans people is ‘common sense’ in Tory conference speech. He said …
Equinox 2023
Perhaps the best festival of the 2023, mainly because I was around so many of my friends and also working on the Sunrise stage, A really beautiful festival with many stages and some great acts. Because I was with so many friends this weekend I didn't take many photos of the stages, Thank you so …
Don’t play with my heart
My heart is yours, If you want it babes, It’s there for the taking, On a silver platter, All I ask if you take it though, Is you don’t break it, That’s all that matters. You know that I love you, You know that I care, But sometimes I wonder, If you want me at …
How I deal with misgendering
I don’t get misgendered very often these days but this is how I deal with misgendering. Do it once, it’s annoying but okay! Do it twice, and beware, you’re on notice. Do it 3 times and I’ll distance myself from you so quickly you won’t believe it, and have done on numerous occasions. I’m four …
Can you business afford to ignore the Transgender Dollar, or pound?
Let me ask you a serious question. Can your business afford to ignore the transgender dollar, or transgender pound? This is a question I keep asking myself, especially when I get stonewalled by businesses because I am transgender. As many transgender people are generally affluent and have money to spend in businesses, and some businesses …
Manchester August 2023
Its quite a while since I've been to Manchester as I have been working away a lot and also not partaking in the falling down water as much this year. After this mornings work i've been for a walk around Manchester city center and here are some of the photographs i've taken on my little …
It’s not Transphobia. It’s Transmisia!
Let’s explain why transmisia should be used, as transphobia is perhaps not the right word for what some people show to the trans community. Let me explain this. A phobia, specifically transphobia, is the fear of something, in this case transgender people. Transgender people such as myself and many of my friends. This is more …
Landed festival 2023
I've just returned from Landed Festival 2023 and what a fantastic event. Really has been a great festival, second only to Bearded theory in May. Fantastic stages, great company, amazing music and congratulations to all involved as this year's landed festival was really well organised. Just a week after Nozstock found me stood on the …
A chemical imbalance inside my brain
A mental brainwash, chemically eroded, Parts of my brain, got corroded, Giving me this momentary indisposition, Of being in such, a strange position. My brain is firing, at Lightening speed, So damn fast, it don’t want to heed! Sometimes these thoughts, got me slightly frightened, Almost like, all my senses becoming massively heightened. Something inside …