I made a thing
Introducing Skeletal Mosaic – A poetry zine by me. Beautiful cover and design by the ever-talented Jem Yoshioka. I am very proud of this little thing, which took several months to create. You Continue Reading →
Category Archives: About illness
World Ankylosing Spondylitis Day
Tomorrow, 7 May, is World Ankylosing Spondylitis Day. I guess it’s an awareness-raising thing, which I dunno. For me, I don’t need the whole world to know about AS. What Continue Reading →
The “deserving poor”
Two years ago today, my column launched in the Nelson Mail. I was struggling with my as-yet undiagnosed illness, and was in the midst of a public battle for better treatment from Continue Reading →
Do you need a hand?
Trigger warnings: death, ableism. I started writing a thing for Blogging About Disableism Day, (Sunday 1 May), but then I found out that my friend Rose had died. And that Continue Reading →
Points for trying: What it’s like having social anxiety
Guess what I did today, reader? I (wait for it, this is a good one) I (keep holding your breath, prepared to be awed), I (I’ve built it up too Continue Reading →
Shortcuts: Tips and Tricks for Spoonies
This is Part Two of the things illness and disability have taught me. I didn’t intend to do a series, but it turns out I’ve learned way more than I realised. Which Continue Reading →
Get out of my uterus
I’ve actually been working on this post for a while, but today’s article about motherhood in the Herald was the final straw. Stop. bloody. asking me. when I’m going to Continue Reading →
The top ten things illness and disability have taught me
Three years ago almost to the day, I was being wheeled out of Nelson hospital. A few times recently, I’ve caught myself saying “fuck, I wish I knew that before Continue Reading →
Now you see me
But… you don’t. You never see me anywhere. Where are the bisexual women? Where are the disabled women? I’m lucky enough to be a white woman, but apart from that Continue Reading →
I don’t own anxiety
So, I saw this sarcastic tweet: “Funny how so many young girls have anxiety these days…” It implies that women in their teens and early twenties are exaggerating their feelings Continue Reading →