For most of us, a part of life is having to do difficult things that in an ideal world we would rather aviod.� The last post �acknowledged that sometimes it can be impossible to avoid things we don’t want to do. This one offers an exercise for working out how to look after yourself when […]
Self consent: Self care when you have to do something hard. Read More »
My last post gave some history and background about why I decided I needed to write about how to intervene�when you’re afraid someone is experiencing domestic violence. �Here I’m just going to talk about what to do. �This post is gendered and does talk about women that experience domestic violence because that is my experience.
How to intervene as a bystander concerned about domestic violence Read More »
Writing a user manual can mean thinking about yourself and your relationships in lots of different ways. Here are a few things you might want to include in your relationship manual:
Five writing prompts for user manuals Read More »
It isn’t really possible to give a few line introduction to queer theory because it is a large and diverse field. Nevertheless there are a couple of concepts that are really important, and that matter to engaging in relationship queering. These are: 1) We are raised with particular ideas of what constitutes maleness, femaleness and
I don’t know who coined the term ‘relationshipqueer’, but on hearing it the concept simply made sense. We are already graced with terms such as genderqueer and neuroqueer, expanding the range of queerness away from sexuality into gender and neurology. Relationshipqueer takes its place amongst these terms to label a way of doing relationships that
