It *also* turns out that stimulant-based ADHD medication can make your period pain worse too! 🙃🙃

I'm a writer and have worked in a support role in arts marketing, both employed and freelance, since 2008.

Things are the worst I've ever known. Worse than austerity, worse than Covid, worse than the cost of living crisis, as those economic changes become baked into our lives 💔

this was published in Butcher's Dog, then as part of my pamphlet for Nine Arches' Primers Scheme.

She is the thrice-changed. The mummified soft tissue and dissolved bones, the transformed into the spirit of place, the transmuted figure of fact to folklore.

Her wounds leak blood prayers to place, cry out to gods we shall never truly know the names of. She has crossed the mire’s cold threshold into a territory of low oxygen and high acidity. Her supplications answered with transformation. - Emily C. Banting

moving into my late twenties having burned up all of my fucks, all of my damns, and all of my god damn fucking patience.

Also the fact that, with lives being lived on the internet, there's this observable trace of your presence, and a fear of being cringe/perverted/perceived.

I'm millennial/X cusp, so this is just from observation.

I feel like it's an age/pandemic thing. Sex is often a big, scary, loaded concept for teenagers and young adults but I think it's been deeply exacerbated by young people's social lives moving to be online post 2020. Also, increasing conservative influence.