Dear ones, I have 2 creative therapeutic journalling workshops scheduled in 2020. I’d love for you to join me. If you are interested in exploring journalling for your mental health or your artistic practice, let’s do this. I anticipate both workshops will sell out, there are limited places due to the deep, interactive nature of the work and I don’t plan to run these again until 2021. If this is for you, book your space below. If you’d like to hear when the next workshops are available & get my monthly love & wellness letters, sign up for Postcards From The Margins here. Therapeutic Art Journal Retreat: Explore the healing…

Inspired by my dear friend Gala Darling, I’m taking my love lists out of my (hot pink) journal and sharing them with you. It’s an odd time to look at things I am grateful for, because normal I catalogue small joys here. At this time, I’m deeply aware of the position of privilege I hold and to be able to think about small pleasures is great good fortune in this painful time. I also hold that I am focussing on small pleasures because, like many, I haven’t seen anyone outside my household in 5 months. I’m still shielding, still navigating the risk during this pandemic as a disabled woman. Here are some…

We are seeing an increasing awareness of the need to centre of voices of people of colour, disabled, LGBTIAQ+ and many others who have been excluded. However, the invitations for marginalised folks to speak/write/share can put us at risk as they do not always take into account the micro aggressions and structural inequities which excluded us for generations. Quite simply, adding more diversity to the status quo isn’t the solution. But while the structures are unfit and unsafe, we still want to speak and occupy space. In this workshop we explore how to do that in a way that’s effective and safe for each of us. We’ll reflect on and…

Literature Wales, in partnership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales, are pleased to announce the names of the writers commissioned following the second call-out for engaging literary content and projects for audiences. The second round of funding for Writer Commissions in partnership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales was launched on 4 May. The focus for this round was health and wellbeing. Literature is frequently used therapeutically, as preventative, palliative, and curative medicine for some illnesses and disabilities. Cumulatively, potential outcomes of literature and creative writing contribute to improved well-being for individuals, our society, economy, and culture and are crucial to the vibrancy of our national cultural narrative.…

I’ve been pulled into lots of unwanted conversations lately; someone, usually a middle-class white person, speaks passionately about how difficult the lockdown is for them.  I’m afraid I’m out of patience with these comments already. I wonder if people like this have never had their movements or liberty constrained before. I don’t know what that’s like. Do they have any friends/family who aren’t white and/or wealthy and/or non-disabled?  Or if they do, perhaps they aren’t the kind of friend you can tell things. I’m not appeasing anyone who managed to ignore the feelings of marginalised folx around themselves up to this point. “I didn’t know” also means “I wasn’t listening”.  These conversations…