I was asked if I would write something about Pride. I feel ‘alarmed’. My initial question: is there anything that a middle-aged gay man could really add to the array of writings, posters, banners and rainbow shop signs (so many shop signs) that, like Christmas, seem to arrive earlier and earlier every year? I struggle to … Continue reading What the Word and Celebration of ‘Pride’ Means to Me
During Pride month, Joan (Co-Founder of The Wellbeing Collective) would like to share her lived experience of being LGBTQ through the years, from the 1970s to now. She shares her story and personal reflections of how things have changed across her life. The 1970s were a strange and unfamiliar time being a teenager and coming … Continue reading My History of Being LGBTQ
Pride Month Joan and I set up The Wellbeing Collective in 2014, three years after we had become a couple. I brought two small boys with me from my previous relationship which kicked off a whole world of learning for the four of us, as well as their dad, grandparents and friends. I recall being … Continue reading My Experience of Being in an LGBTQ Blended Family
A Book Review (No Spoilers) It’s 200 years post-Cinderella and Prince Charming. Teenage girls are now expected to attend an annual Royal ball where men will choose their wife based on the girl’s finery. If you are not chosen, then you ‘disappear’. The story follows Black teenage girl Sophia, who would rather marry her best … Continue reading Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron – Book Club
A Pair of Book Reviews It’s Not About the Burqa Edited by Mariam Khan A Book Review My number one takeaway from this book was, ‘I have no right to enforce my opinion, based on speculation, onto a group of people who I don’t identify as’. In a world full of misrepresentation and mis- or … Continue reading Diversity and Inclusion Book Recommendations
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