Why are unsolicited gig offers always "can you perform for our football team's board member?" or "can you freestyle dance at a beach resort party?" when this bendy goth's promo looks like this?

I belong in dimly-lit cabaret venues with alt/queer lineups and audiences 🦇

📸 Brig Bee

Back when I was pregnant, squirming around in an incredible raqs sharqi and transnational fusion show with the most stunning and vocal audience, in between bouts of morning sickness backstage.

#SideshowContortion

'Tilda is Visible' by Jane Tara and 'Libby Lost and Found' by Stephanie Booth were fun, unexpected, and told from interesting angles.

Becky Chambers' 'Monk and Robot' series was my favourite discovery of the year and I want to climb inside it and live there.

Towards the end of 2024 I made an effort to read more fiction, and found some of my new favourite books. I'm now on the hunt for recommendations for magical realism or sci-fi that are cosy, optimistic, and preferably not written by cis men.