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Why be normal?
This Valentine’s day I’ll be taking a break from my usual topics of this time of year and I’ll be blogging about the Fifty Shades of Grey movie which is released for Valentine’s weekend. Meanwhile...
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Buzzfeed for Valentine’s Day
Thanks to my fab publishers, Routledge, I’m included on a Buzzfeed for a second time, this time for Valentine’s Day. I’m loving the fact that they’ve put my suggestion about not privileging romantic...
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Update: New books!
I haven’t posted on here for over a month. Part of the reason is that I was hit with a big illness in February which took several weeks to recover from. But a happier reason is that all of my writing...
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Embrace your inner mutant superpower
This might seem a bit of a departure from the usual stuff that I write about here, but stay with me and hopefully you’ll see the connections. It’s also the first thing I’ve written towards one of my...
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Non/monogamy
There’s a new talk by me up on the Pink Therapy YouTube channel. Plus a whole load more really interesting talks from their recent conference.
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Ladybeard panel discussion on sex
Back in April I chaired a panel discussion for Ladybeard magazine called ‘Sex: Mythmaking and Taboo’. It was an amazing night with some absolutely brilliant panelists and a super-engaged audience. You...
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Supporting each other through mental health struggles
Novaramedia is currently publishing a number of useful articles around the theme of mental health, including pieces on work and mental health, and one on talking therapies. They asked me to submit...
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Inside Out: Getting in Touch with Our Emotions
This weekend I saw the new Disney Pixar movie Inside Out. I’m a big fan of Pixar already, particularly because their previous films have explored huge existential themes like death and the meaning of...
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Why be normal? Podcast goes live
Earlier this year I spoke at a panel at the SICK! Festival about normal sex: why people want so much to be normal, and why the struggle to be normal often makes people suffer more, rather than less. I...
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Polyamory book reviews: Useful ideas for all relationships
I was excited to be asked by the excellent people at Thorntree Press to review two new books about polyamory: Franklin Veaux’s memoir – The Game Changer – and Elisabeth Sheff’s edited collection of...
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Sex and gender beyond the binary
This week Ladybeard magazine published a piece that a wrote for them on thinking in non-binary ways about sex, sexuality and gender. This seems particularly relevant this week given that the papers...
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Coming out day: Non-binary gender Q&A
Today is international coming out day. I wasn’t planning to write anything for the occasion because I’m in the extremely fortunate position of already being out about everything about myself that...
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New vids: Key ideas in therapy
The excellent folks at the Open University have just helped me and a couple of colleagues – Naomi Moller and Andreas Vossler – to put together these three animations of key ideas in therapy. We all...
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What have I been doing? All of the things
Many blog posts are brewing at the moment but none quite ready to bottle and serve. However I did spend this afternoon collating some of the things I’ve been working on recently into the resources...
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Non-Binary Feminism: The personal is still political
Content Note: There’s mention in this article of the heated debates around feminism and trans, of societal gender inequalities, and of gender-related bullying in schools. I’m using non-binary and...
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That was 2015, what about 2016?
I’ve been a bit quiet lately because I’ve been recovering from surgery and then working on the first draft of a new book on The Psychology of Sex which will include lots of the topics that I’ve been...
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Explore More Summit
Tomorrow you can hear me being interviewed for the Explore More Summit about love, sex, and relationships. There’s a quick teaser of me talking pressures on relationships and reminiscing about old...
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New book out today! The Secrets of Enduring Love
My new book – with Prof Jacqui Gabb – is out today! The Secrets of Enduring Love was published by Penguin RandomHouse and is available now in paperback and ebook formats. Jacqui and I are also...
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Happy valentine’s vid
Happy Valentine’s Day all. Here’s the first of the vids that Jacqui Gabb and I made with the Open University folks about some of the findings in our new book, The Secrets of Enduring Love. We hope you...
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New zine – queer relationships
I just spent the whole weekend and two excellent events on relationships: Queer polyday in Leicester, and the Polyamory, Consensual Non-Monogamy and Relationship Anarchy day in Manchester. For my bits...
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