I am a big fan of the Own Voices publishing movement, it’s fantastic. It doesn’t remove the need for diversity and representation in books not written by minority authors, but it’s about time that minorities had a way to proclaim “I am the best person to tell this story because of who I am.” That’s… View more
Wicca’s strict gender binary is what began me on this journey. This crisis of faith. Gender binary permeates many rituals and underpins a Wiccan’s understanding of divinity and the universe. Everything is split into polarities. Masculine and Feminine. Light and Dark. Active and passive. Killing and creating. Whilst dark doesn’t always equate to evil (depending… View more
Love them or hate them, labels aren’t going away. In fact, there seem to be more now than ever before. And no, that doesn’t stop people arguing about them! The biggest problem I see with labels is that a lot of people don’t understand their function, or they use a label without checking they know… View more
Sometimes I wonder if Dear Hart wishes he’d married someone a little more normal; like last night when he asked me to buy the kids a book with a straight couple in it for a change.
