Ten Totally True Things About Bisexuality
1. If you take one straight person and one gay person, add them together and divide them in half, you will get two slightly bewildered bisexuals. 2. Bisexuals are almost, but not entirely, invisible....
View ArticleBe Yourself. No, Not That One, The Other One
(First published at the Huffington Post) There’s a lot of advice out there about being yourself. It’s generally in favour of the idea, and quite right too. The opposite of being yourself is not being...
View ArticleFive Tips for Winter (That May Only Be Useful If You’re Me)
1. If you can’t find a matching pair, it’s perfectly ok to wear one black leather glove and one fuzzy rainbow glove. It’s also fine to rearrange your outfit to match the look: perhaps a black leather...
View ArticleMerry Christmas, Fatty! and other festive conversations
The National Obesity Forum has suggested that Christmas is the perfect time to tell loved ones that they’re overweight and to suggest remedies for this. This is an excellent idea, of course. People who...
View ArticleTrue Friends and False Dichotomies
It’s the start of the year. Traditionally a time when people gathered around the fire, wrapped themselves up warmly and shared online self-help tips with each other, possibly accompanied by pictures of...
View ArticleMy Experimental Valentine
I love Christmas, I love Easter, I love birthdays, but frankly I can take or leave Valentine’s Day. Possibly this is because my cultural heritage has taught me that the only acceptable means of...
View ArticleThe Twilight Division: A Cinematic Proposal
OK, so I like the Twilight films. The actors and the scenery are pretty, the plot is a perfectly good vampire story, and I like the way Kristen Stewart says everything in a flat monotone (I genuinely...
View ArticleOf Course You Can’t Say…
I tend to find that the internet is not a friend of rhetoric. Like satire, it seems to get taken literally, which leads to rows and angry blog posts and general miscommunication. So I make an effort to...
View ArticleTwelve things I now know about gluten
It’s been two and a half years since I found out I had coeliac disease, the treatment for which is never to eat gluten again. (The things I do for my villi.) Here is what I now know. 1. I am sick of...
View ArticleOld Year’s Resolutions
It’s been said before, but a year is a ridiculous amount of time to make a resolution for. I can barely think a week ahead, personally. If I did make any resolutions at the start of 2014, they are long...
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