Writing ~ Re-connecting
Writing ~ Re-connecting
I have hope that a more fluid sense of masculine and feminine could undermine the polarisation between gender identities.
F is for Feminist. For centuries feminists have asserted the rights of women to own property, vote, have a profession. Where does feminism connect to the inequalities of North v South? Can men be feminists? THINK GLOBAL: ACT LOCAL Think…
E is for equality in diversity. E is also for Ears which are really important for listening to others without jumping into EGO judgement or polarisation which helps the powerful manipulate us. ECO resonates with the power of connection to…
D is for Deadline for Diversity in all our nature, where WE are true to ourselves and THEM in the space for empathy,art, imagination. D for Drag Race and the delights of diversity expressed through creativity helps us survive and…
C for CIS is used to mean your gender identity is the same as the sex assigned to you at birth. C for closet is where LBGTQI+ kept their gender identity hidden because we were afraid of backlash. C is…
In my youth in the 1970’s bisexual meant being sexually attracted to both women and men. Radical feminists saw it as a betrayal of lesbian identity so I came out as a lesbian which was a betrayal of myself. Roots…
A for AGE. My white hair and whiskers remind me that society, economy and culture influence stereotypes of gender and of old people. A for androgynous reminds me of the mix of masculine and feminine qualities in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando…
My novel Michel-Michelle arrived in the post to-day ready for readers at the launch in Irish Writers Centre on 5th March at 6.30pm. I am reminded that diversity flows through the imagination shared between reader and writer. As a reader,…
Launch Invitation 5th March Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, 6.30pm Axel, the main character in my novel, Michel-Michelle, is an architect in Lille and the son of „three mothers“ – Amelia, his birth mother, Naomi, her partner and Michelle, Axel’s transgender…