Book Review: Conversations With Friends

This review contains no spoilers. Frances performs poetry with her ex-girlfriend, now best friend, Bobbi. When they meet Melissa and Nick, a glamorous and successful older couple, the emotionally distant Frances is surprised by her own reaction. Intrigued by, and then...
On Being Bi

On Being Bi

Recently I was having a conversation with some friends and Partner about a play with a premise I thought sounded really interesting. It centres around a lesbian couple, one of whom comes out as trans, causing her partner to have to re-evaluate where she stands in...
Getting Weddinged

Getting Weddinged

A beautiful princess gown, trailing flowers, an angelic chorus singing you down the aisle while friends and family wipe teary eyes. The stereotype suggests that, as a woman, I’ve spent my whole life planning the perfect wedding down to the smallest detail. Well, to...
How to (Not) Fight About the Washing Up

How to (Not) Fight About the Washing Up

We’ve all seen it happen, in television or film if not in real life. The fight that starts with snide comments over some household chore, escalates into shouting and the hurling of unresolved and seemingly irrelevant past grievances, ends in one or both parties saying...