The Anatomy of a Bad Morning…
So this morning sucked. I’m sure you’ve had these mornings yourself – mornings when nothing seemed to go right, you ended up bit late or hurting yourself or crashing the car […]
Author: iekenner
Challenges of My Transcape #3: Not Passing
Up until I was 21, my experiences with presenting as the gender I felt inside were entirely contained within the four walls of my parents’ house. And only when I […]
Editing the Monolith…
So as I work my way through Bifrost’s (almost) 3rd Draft, I’m finding it incresingly frustrating to have the version I’m working on be a hard copy. Yes – I […]
Challenges of My Transcape #2: Coming Out
When I was a young teenager (as in around 27 years ago), I was sitting watching the ABC (that’s the Australian public broadcaster ABC) and a news report came on about […]
Challenges of my Transcape #1: Fighting it
So for the uninitiated – I’m transgender. I was born with a male body, but I have always identified more with the female end of the gender spectrum. I identify […]
My Twitter Paradox
Ask any professional, full-time author what the biggest drains on their writing time are (or would be if they let it) and social media will inevitably come in the top […]
25 Years of Irritable Bowel Syndrome was Actually an Allergy
When I was around 12, my parents decided to take me to an allergy specialist. I had spent as long as I could remember dealing with eczema on my skin, spending spring […]
Love Just a Bit More; Hate Just a Bit Less
I tried to stay clear of social media yesterday (Monday in Australia). Early on Monday morning, the world had crept up on me and punched me in the face. Not […]
Dearest Footy Media, It’s Not the List
(Updated following Round Round 7) As I write this, it’s not so much anger as pain. I was angry after the first couple of rounds of the AFL season, seeing […]
Dream Madonna is Really Quite Lovely
I had a dream last night. I had a dream and for the first time in YEARS (I would estimate), I can remember it! It was only relatively short, but […]