Sizzling Smut with Jacq Applebee and Camel Gupta Dec 1st 2013 Tate Modern Blue Meeting room 5-7pm

Sizzling Smut with Jacq Applebee and Camel Gupta Dec 1st 2013 Tate Modern Blue Meeting room 5-7pm

Sizzling Smut with Jacq Applebee and Camel Gupta Dec 1st 2013 Tate Modern Blue Meeting room 5-7pm:

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QTIPOC and Erotica
What does it mean to us when we have a skewed presence in erotic fiction? Too often we find ourselves squashed into specialist (and hard to access) publications, or we are simply made invisible. People of colour are rarely presented in erotic fiction; for QTIPOC the…

Getting Bi in sound and vision

Getting Bi in sound and vision

Lovely at the Manchester bisexuals meetup last night to have another new member say they'd got a lot from playing the audio/video version of Getting Bi before coming along to the group. It does seem to have added a lot compared to the print bookle...
Transpose Halloween Edition.
I had the pleasure to perform at…

Transpose Halloween Edition. I had the pleasure to perform at…


CN Lester displays the manly side of the gender binary


The girly half of the gender binary


It wasn't full moon, but Kat is still a werewolf regardless.


Having fun with corsets!

Transpose Halloween Edition.

I had the pleasure to perform at Transpose at their Hallowe’en edition.  I felt right at home as soon as I walked across the sticky floors of the University of London’s Student Union bar.  CN Lester had provided some sparkly vegan pumpkin cookies, which were yummy.  I met up with Sandra Alland, who I hadn’t seen in years, and Kat Gupta who is always fun and full of energy (plus they had a brilliant werewolf tee-shirt!)

The event started with some wonderful songs from CN Lester. 

I read a story about a singer who was born a woman but dresses like a man as part of their performance.  When they start living as a man, they find little in the way of acceptance until they start to embrace the fluid nature of themselves.

There was also a story with a great take on a kelpie; a re-imagining of the Little Mermaid, and a film and poetry readings that were brilliant.  Towards the end of the evening there was an auction to raise funds for TENI.  I had to leave before the band finished it all off, but I had a fab time.

Transpose was a fantastic night, and I am already looking forward to the next one in February 2014.

lgBt and Europe

lgBt and Europe

Another press release lands in my in-box from the European Parliament's LGBT Intergroup. This one's on tackling hate speech. It mentions homophobia and transphobia...This is far from the only time they've left that yawning gap. The LGBT Intergroup defi...
“Bisexuality does exist, it is not a fiction, nor is it a phase”, my key message to Civil Service equality conference

“Bisexuality does exist, it is not a fiction, nor is it a phase”, my key message to Civil Service equality conference

I had the privilege of giving a keynote address to today’s Civil Service Rainbow Alliance (the national LGB&T staff network) conference at the Ministry of Defence. Also on the programme were Sir Bob Kerslake, Head of the Civil Service; Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions; Liz Bingham, managing Partner at EY; and Peter Tatchell […]