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Best Pride Book: Non-Binary Lives

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 10 June
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I’m so stoked that a book collection that I co-edited with Jos Twist, Kat Gupta, and Ben Vincent has been chosen as The Independent‘s best...
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Mind the gap 1: On slowing down and making space

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 28 May
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Recently Justin and I covered slowing down on the Patreon feed of our podcast. You can listen to that here if you fancy signing up....
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Mind the gap 2: The (micro and macro) gap as a radical act

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 28 May
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This post is all about the value of making gaps – micro to macro – in our everyday lives for self-consent, for relating well with...
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Balancing fight, flight, freeze and fawn: A plural perspective 2

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 20 May
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I’ve written a fair bit here lately about the trauma responses of fight, flight, freeze and fawn, and how these can become stuck patterns with...
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Balancing fight, flight, freeze and fawn: A plural perspective 1

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 20 May
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I’ve written a fair bit here lately about the trauma responses of fight, flight, freeze and fawn, and how these can become stuck patterns with...
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Plural conversation about fear(others)/shame(self)

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 15 May
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This post is a plural conversation about how I’m understanding and working with the trauma response of fear/shame, and how it relates to the existential...
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Fear/Shame and the Anatomy of a Trauma Response

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 15 May
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In this post I want to share some connections I’ve made as I experience the kinds of trauma response that I’ve been writing about here...
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Trauma and the Body Basics

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 4 May
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As part of my deep dive into trauma I wanted to write a post about the way trauma works in the body and brain, and...
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All about amatonormativity: the privileging of romantic love

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 29 April
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Thanks so much to BBC Bitesize for interviewing me for this article on the pressure of finding The One. It’s something I’ve spoken and written...
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New joint podcasts: Covid-19, trauma, and non-binary thinking

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 24 April
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Over the last few weeks I did two joint podcasts with co-creators who’ve also been putting out content on coping with the pandemic and lockdown...
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