I’m sitting here a little overwhelmed. This afternoon I gave my first book reading proper. I’ve been ‘on the bill’ for one or two open-mic gigs which went down rather well. But this was my first on my own. It was a bijou affair on the fourth floor of The School of Oriental and African […]
Opinion
Posts about issues that interest Zite writers
Five other bloggers on Bastardography
As I prepare for todays talk at SOAS LGBT Society in London. Something that I am half excited, half nervous about, I was going to share such nonsensical fears, but then I thought that would be rather silly. Instead I thought I’d give a run-down of five other bloggers who wanted to talk about Bastardography. […]
The first account of a man living with Borderline Personality Disorder?
I kept deleting the word ‘gay’ before man in the title of this blog. The reason being, is that I can’t remember seeing a book anywhere about a man’s experience of BPD, let alone gay, and although being gay myself, and I would’ve found it, possibly, more helpful to have read a gay mans experience, […]
Where Have All The Lesbians Gone?
Jacquie Lawrence BBC Radio Scotland interview with Kaye Adams, 26th March 2015 Jacquie was on BBC Radio Scotland on Thursday 26th March 2015 on the Kaye Adams show, discussing her part in the BFI Flare Debate about the diminishing role of lesbian characters in film and on TV.
‘1909’ and Gender Bias
One of the more bizarre aspects of gender bias is that the more its study becomes pertinent to the modern world, the less people seem to study it. It’s not unlike disappointment at your favourite indie band suddenly achieving fame, and your interest in them waning as they become everyone’s favourite tipple. I wrote 1909 in […]