The importance of being Proud, as an outsider, as an oddball, and especially as part of an oppressed group like LGBTQ+ people, people of colour, and disabled people, is a topic that I’m sure many a thesis has been written about. As I’m doing this in one blog post, for now, I’m only going to […]
I have run into a ton of little issues lately, everything from some services being registered under the wrong name, to wanting to connect that service to a different one and not being able because of the first issue, to completely unrelated stuff like things going wrong at that other job. So I’ve kind of […]
Have you ever met a crafter, artisan or artist who’s perfectly sane? I mean, sure, on the crafting side of the spectrum there might be a nice, well crafted(!) veneer of normal-ness, which slips the further into creativity you go. But I think there’s a reason why Van Gogh is the quintessential Western artist – […]
I’ve been in a bit of a funk, mentally, for the last few months. I’ve had problems creating things, making things, doing things at all. It took me about two months before I realised that this isn’t just normal mental funk but a genuine burnout. I’ve burnt out once before. Since then, I’ve been borderline […]