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Mental Health vs Mental Illness

CW: mental health, mental illness, bipolar, BPD, eating disorders So, it’s Mental Health Awareness Week 2018. A time to shine light on pressing topics in an environment, via the main stream media and ignorant officials, that don't quite get it right. F...

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The good, the bad and the ugly (of teaching)

CW: classism, sexism, toxic masculinity, homophobia/biphobia/transphobia mention, mental health TW: addiction, self-medicating, narcotics, alcoholism I thought I'd follow on from the theme of my last post. For a while I’ve wanted to talk about my exper...

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Those that can’t do, teach

CW: mention of anxiety, depression, suicide. I want to apologise in advance for those in or out of the profession – at any capacity – that most certainly can do and also teach. The titular phrasing of this post is not a dig at teachers being talentless...

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BiCon session idea

Have proposed to run at BiCon:Having been bi for longer than five years: a conversationSome of us have thought of ourselves as bisexual for a while now. This will be a chance for us to talk together about how being bi has been in our lives and how it i...

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Men too

TW: Rape, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, blackmail, childhood trauma, sexualisation of children, relationships and sex, abuse. I struggled to title this in a way that wasn’t completely misleading and not intrusive to certain movements. It is...

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The centre of the universe

CW: menz TW: genitalia, discourse perpetuating rape culture That’s how cismen see themselves. The centre of each and every conversation, the biggest voice and the most vicious bark. The centre of the entire fucking universe. Can you imagine, toxic masc...

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Let’s talk about sex baby

CW: Friendships, family, gender, relationships, mental health TW: addictions, abuse, men, masculinity, toxic-masculinity, suicide …let’s talk about you and me. Let’s talk about all the things… I kid. Let’s talk about men. And when I say men, I mean let...

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Bi Activism: For Those Who Like Reading

Often we want to do more to increase our quality of life and promote inclusion but we don’t know what to do. Hopefully this page will give you some ideas to get you started. If your activism isn’t inclusive of BAME bis, disabled bis, trans bis, older bis, younger bis, bis who practice a religion, … Continue reading Bi Activism: For Those Who Like Reading →

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Intro to Bi Activism

Often we want to do more to increase our quality of life and promote inclusion but we don’t know what to do. Hopefully the posts listed below will give you some ideas to get you started. If your activism isn’t inclusive of BAME bis, disabled bis, trans bis, older bis, younger bis, bis who practice … Continue reading Intro to Bi Activism →

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Why the gaydar doesn’t exist

If you’re straight, you probably think that you have some kind of gaydar, right? That somehow, you’ve been bestowed with this wonderous skill of detecting whether someone is or isn’t cishet. I’m here to disappoint, you don’t. It’s not a thing. Here’s w...