I wrote about the confessions of Madonna’s Confessions theconversation.com/confessions-...

I'm running two FREE zine making//local storytelling workshops as part of Ludlow History Festival on 28th and 29th August. Free to attend (if you sign up) and open to anyone 16+. ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk/show|zine-wo...

Did everyone know about the Aesop’s fable where a beaver bites off his testicles and just not tell me? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bea...

I'm running two FREE zine making//local storytelling workshops as part of Ludlow History Festival on 28th and 29th August. Free to attend (if you sign up) and open to anyone 16+. ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk/show|zine-wo...

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Issue 9 is HERE! Featuring an EXCLUSIVE interview with Saleem Haddad and an extract from his new novel Floodlines. Plus all the LGBTQ+ poems, stories and non-fiction you could want. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ... 1/3 🍎Get it here: fruitjournal.co.uk 🥝

I wrote about KATSEYE's dystopian aesthetic rachelizasykes.substack.com/p/2-katseye-...

*staring into the camera with the light behind my eyes entirely extinguished*

Texas tech now bans students from writing about LGBTQ issues in any form. Mentions of gender identity, orientation etc in textbooks must be skipped. Deafening silence so far from all the brave heterodox free speech absolutists www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

Australia's cyber security co-ordinator just dropped what I think will be a very useful reaction meme

Thrilled to have a new piece in @fruitjournal.bsky.social with thanks to the kindest editors. It’s called ‘Infinite Largesse’ and it’s about being told your body is bad, the video game Consume Me, my darling Britney Spears, and gender queerness in the 2000s. fruitjournal.co.uk/2026/03/01/r...

With colleagues in law and history, I'm helping launch a new MA in Gender and Sexuality - would love to get the word out!

Celebrating small writing and making goals of 2025 as I aim to make more little and often. 1/5 I was shortlisted for a memoir prize for this flash piece about mansplaining and plate tectonics.

I’m writing a book about confession so I thought I’d also write a blog about Lily Allen open.substack.com/pub/racheliz...

Coventry queers and beyond - I’m co-running this workshop on Sunday 14th. There are bursaries for travel - tickets via stmarysguildhall.co.uk 🧞‍♀️🐉🐦‍🔥

Dumb love, I love being stupid

I contributed to this review of the shortlist for the International Booker Prize @uk.theconversation.com - tldr, I liked Perfection a lot! theconversation.com/internationa...

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