I’m really settled on the name Samantha now. It feels like I have come home to a comfy blanket of rightness. Joanne never felt like me. It felt like an expedient. A lazy feminisation of my birth name that I…
Trans women should stop trying to exist (it seems)
“A High Court judge has dismissed a legal challenge to the equality watchdog’s guidance on which public or workplace toilets and changing rooms transgender people should use.” “Currently the guidance is that a trans woman […] would be expected to…
Ponderance
I feel like such a fraud right now. I know I am a girl, my mindset is of a girl, but I have reverted to living as a guy outside the house since 2nd lockdown. Not even tried to go…
A minor facet
I’ve just been reading the Wikipedia article about Arthur C. Clarke, because I wanted to look something up, and I found some things I did not know, including the fact that he was held in such high esteem in Sri…
Sam
Used the name “Sam” for the first time today. I bought something online from Marks & Spencer and I went to collect it today. You enter your deets at a terminal and then wait for a member of staff…
Hi, I am Samantha
Hey folks. I’ve been giving this a lot of thought for years, and I really hate my name. Joanne, I mean. I really don’t like it and never have. And I originally chose it! LOL Anyway, I’ve been thinking on…
William Moulton Marston; Wonder Man
I watched a superb documentary on Sky recently, called “Secret History of Comics: The Truth About Wonder Woman” It was about American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston (pen name: Charles Moulton), who invented the lie detector. But, also, a…
State of flux
Just to let you know that recent changes to WordPress have broken the very old theme that I have been using for years and which has been abandoned by its author(s) and hence has not been updated to continue to…
Self-Portraiture
I thought I’d make a post about the kind of camera equipment I use to take my self portraits, since the topic came up in the comments section on one of my recent Flickr pics.
Bargain Hunting
On Tuesday I popped over to Epsom Downs Racecourse for an Antiques and Collectors fair. The weather was sunny, but cold and windy, and there weren’t a lot of outside stalls. But upon getting indoors I immediately saw that the…