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Reading 25: Such is the life of a transsexual in the big city
The first thing is that is difficult to tell if it even happened. But it works in the mind, spiralling outward, colouring everything until something better can take its place I feel like I go through different phases, alternating like chequered light. One is that I walk the streets making eye contact with everyone,…
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Reading 23: We need a trans Marguerite!
I went back to visit my family for a few days towards the end of May. I hadn’t been back to my home town for a while, not since Christmas, so I thought it best to spend the May half term holiday there, working from home in the daytime, and spending the evenings with my…
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Reading 21: Three windows
I’ve loved the views from many windows throughout my life, but there are a few that have fixed themselves in my memory and crystallised as if what they contained was itself an expression of that particular period in my life. That these windows have come to make a lasting impact on me did not come…
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Reading 14: On hope
I’d been thinking, more recently, about how I wanted to write another of these posts on the topic of fragility. More specifically, the fragility and vulnerability of trans life: the fact that our joys, happiness and stability are so often contingent upon so many thing going right. That the threat of violence, harassment, discrimination and…
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Reading 9: On Moving to Clapham South
Last night I went to Stormbird in Camberwell, which is quite possibly my favourite pub in London. It was a Friday night, I arrived first, got myself a drink and sat down to wait for Glen and Katie to arrive. I hadn’t been in over a month, and am likely to go a lot less…