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Reflections On Equal Marriage From A Born Bride
At the very beginning of the year, London’s sky was filled with fireworks. The annual New Year’s fireworks display that closed out 2023 and welcomed 2024 featured a touching tribute to ten years of same sex marriage in the UK. As the night lit up, my mind was filled with memories of the many times…
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New Year, Same Disaster
It feels like just a few weeks since you last wrote one of these letters, but it is in fact a year. As mad as it might make me appear to the outside world, I enjoy sending these letters to you, and I like to imagine me (or you) reading them, back before all of…
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Everybody Out!
Sell me a space in the shadows,let me live behind a locked door,surrounded by the sweetness of unspeculative silence. I care for the kind of quiet that doesn’t guess,a lush loneliness,moonlight serenade of stillness. I am sleeping in the dreams of somebody else tonight,littered with letters,sewn onto my skin,because I stopped being convincing, somewhere in…
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New Article – Dartford Pride: how it is helping the town’s LGBTQ+ community
Hola amigos, I’ve been featured in an article exploring LGBTQ+ Identities and the positive effects of Pride celebrations. You can read the article here. Besos, J x
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Can Dartford’s First Pride Heal The Wounds Left By The Shame of Sandy Bruce-Lockhart?
After decades of keeping the LGBT+ community a secret, the town I live in is having it’s first Pride. Organised by the Orchard Theatre in partnership with Dartford Borough Council, the event is much needed, and long overdue. I live about twenty minutes away from the tiny village I spent much of my childhood in,…