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Hot love: Being and having

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 19 September
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A good friend recently asked me what I think about hot love: that intense in-love feeling. What does it mean when we feel that, and...
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Fighting or Feeding Your Demons? It and Facing up to Historical and Intergenerational Trauma

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 8 September
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Last night I saw the sequel to It and obviously I have many many thoughts and feelings. You don’t have be familiar with the film...
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Sexual incompatibility

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 4 September
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I was recently included in this article about sexual incompatibility by Alix Fox. It’s something that Justin Hancock and I talk about regularly on our...
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Queer mad comics

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 2 September
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Earlier this summer I was stoked to keynote the Graphic Medicine conference whose theme this year was Que(e)rying Graphic Medicine. My talk was called ‘queer,...
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Embracing failure in work, home, and relationships

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 28 August
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Long read ahoy, all about failure. For the takeaways feel free to skip to the end. This summer I left employment – and education –...
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Showing Your Working: On Writing Vulnerable

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 21 August
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Now that I’m a full-time writer (yes, I did it!) I’m thinking even more than I did before about the process of writing. Something that...
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Remembering Audrey: Another memorial

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 15 August
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Tonight is the full moon so another regret ritual for me. The more I do them the more each one seems to find the right...
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Straight people going to gay events and venues

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 12 August
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Recently Grace Walsh interviewed me for this great piece about straight people going to gay bars. You can read my full thoughts here on straight...
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Queer loneliness and friendship

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 1 August
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I recently did an interview for this great piece on queer loneliness, and how to find LGBTQ+ friends. It was a nice one for me...
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Time to ditch the idea of foreplay?

  • by Meg-John Barker
  • 25 July
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I recently did an interview with Franki Cookney about how problematic the concept of ‘foreplay’ is. You can read Frank’s excellent articles here, and my...
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