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Launches, 2025
I’ve been busy this year and last, with various collaborations: parts of bigger projects, which are now coming to fruition. Next Thursday (the 18th of September, 7-8:45pm) is the launch of two animations that I worked on, together with my partner Sonny and a great little team – all autistic, apart from (probably) the animator.…
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To Sir Keir Starmer KC MP, on the matter of trans rights
Dear Sir Keir Starmer KC MP, Â I note that your 2024 manifesto includes the following: “We will also modernise, simplify, and reform the intrusive and outdated gender recognition law to a new process. We will remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance; whilst retaining the need for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria…
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All about Weird Pride Day
I started Weird Pride Day in 2021, but the roots of pride as a political tool go back through decades of the LGBTQ liberation movement, to Black power in the 1960s. Weird Pride in particular is a concept that many people, from a variety of backgrounds, have arrived at independently. Weird Pride Day is not…
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2024 Roundup
After a year and a half of managing teaching around long covid/post-viral fatigue, with the last six months particularly bad after a second round of infections, I left classroom teaching at the end of the 2023-24 school year. While I was reluctant to make this move, I haven’t missed the classroom as much as I…
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2023 Roundup
I started 2023 with pretty bad fatigue, having had covid in December 2022, following on from a different virus in November which had already given me weeks of post-viral fatigue. This improved slowly over the course of the year, only for the same thing to happen at the end of 2023 – this time, I…