cycles, change and no ‘new year, new you’ narratives I promise
“And again at New Year, when the 12 strokes sound and we make our resolutions ‘I will be good; turn over a new leaf; be made anew’ - we are embodying, even if we do not know it, or perhaps being embodied by, the myth of eternal return; the periodic destruction and...
Thinning – unveiling ourselves this Samhain and beyond
As we in the Northern hemisphere find ourselves in the descent towards darker days, heading down into Samhain1, it’s become a tradition of sorts that I spend some time contemplating this idea of the thinning of the veil between the worlds. Most of us are familiar...
THE IMPOSSIBLE KNOT
‘The menstrual monster is thus simultaneously menstruating and non-menstruating, feminine and un-feminine, bleeding too much and too little, too early and too late, in too much and too little pain, is too proud and too embarrassed, transgendered and cisgendered’....
FOOL’S SPRING
We were cycling late last Saturday night and I'd left the house ill-prepared. My hands stung sharply with the cold; the wind whipping my knuckles as we trundled up the hill. 'Why the fuck didn't I bring my gloves?' I shouted, shaking my raw hands to bring some life...
Reimagining Menarche
What might happen if we reimagined menarche? Or even queered it all the way up? As a parent to a small human who I assume will get her period one day, I think about this a lot. There's also a growing movement of companies setting up workshops and education that...
What if we are the veil?
Some of you will have heard me say this before and so I apologise for repeating myself, but every year at Samhain I find myself sitting-with the premise of the veil between the worlds and each year I can't help but feel like there’s more to it. The idea that the veil...