activism
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A Witch, A Woman, A Galaxy: Abigail Thorne’s Quiet Star Wars Revolution
Living without my husband, I am at last free to enjoy Star Wars! I started with…
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Being Heard – and Being Handled: My MP’s Letter and the Minister’s Evasion (part 2)
After reading the Minister for Equalities’ response – which Satvir forwarded to me as promised –…
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Being Heard – and Being Handled: My MP’s Letter and the Minister’s Evasion (part 1)
A little while ago I wrote to my MP, Satvir Kaur, about the political and media…
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Visible and Vanishing: Trans Day of Remembrance
The Weight of Remembrance Every year on 20 November, communities around the world gather to mark…
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Please Aim for Decency
A modest proposal for ending the gender toilet wars This morning, in the men’s loos at…
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Teaching positive masculinity
A primary school in south‑west London has made a smart and progressive move by featuring Elliot…
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Being Heard: My MP’s Response on Trans Healthcare and Hate Crime
You might remember that a little while ago I wrote to my MP regarding the current…
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After the Evil Empire: Britain’s Long War on Difference
After the Evil Empire: Britain’s Long War on Difference “…since the gradual collapse of the Evil…
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Letter to MP: Silence Is Complicity: Speaking Up Against Transphobia
I’ve reached the end of my tether watching the steady rise of transphobia in this country,…
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A Love Letter to the Molly House
Before there were gay bars or Pride parades, there were Molly Houses. Hidden behind the drapery…
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Bra-Gate and the Tall Woman Panic
I’ve been feeling troubled by this recent furore over the “trans” assistant in the lingerie section…
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A song to free love
I learnt this as a child in church. Back then it felt like a sweet song…
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International Non-Binary Day 2025
International Non-Binary Day has a pretty charming and intentional origin – it wasn’t born in protest,…
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GERM Warfare: Legal Erasure and the Art of Bureaucratic Judo
I read a comment the other day from a trans woman responding to the UK’s recent…

