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Last year Routledge invited me to create revised editions of two of my books, both of which had been published back in 2018: The Psychology of Sex (a second edition) and Rewriting the Rules (a third edition). I found it difficult to decide whether to take up the invitation or not, mainly because so much […] The post New edition of The Psychology of Sex – including un/conscious sex appeared first…
The Queer Creative Health zine which I made in collaboration with QUEERCIRCLE is now part of a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection: The Coming of Age. The Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library exploring health and human experience. Life paths are diverse and unpredictable, as writer and illustrator MJ Barker observes: “Many, […] The post Queer Creative Health Zine in Coming of Age…
A second new year post from us to let you know that our friend, Daniel Morrison, has published a great post on substack about how we might approach new year intentions and aspirations spaciously. Daniel uses ‘spacious‘ as an acronym for the following words, each of which is a good one to linger on for a […] The post A spacious new year, and sub-stackers appeared first on Rewriting The Rules .
Happy new year from all of us to all of you – those of you who mark a year turning around now. It feels appropriate that I have an addition to our Plural Tarot project, from last year, to share with you at this time. Back then we ended the Plural Tarot zines with the […] The post A new ‘world’ and book updates appeared first on Rewriting The Rules .
Here at Rewriting the Rules we’re happy to be in ongoing relationship with Love Uncommon – a collective whose work is very much aligned with our own (albeit ours is more of an internal collective, and theirs is more of an external one!) Read on to find out more about their work, and their current – […] The post Love Uncommon courses: Mapping Your Relationships and Coming Home appeared first on…
We’ve just had a piece published as part of a QUEERCIRCLE takeover on The Polyphony web platform. We’ve been huge fans of The Polyphony for years, and it’s a great place to have our work published because it focuses on the overlap between medicine/health (including mental health, trauma, neurodivergence and disability) and the arts/humanities (including […] The post TenderQueer research/practice…
Two of our favourite folks have recently got together to produce an online course on Mapping Your Relationship Ecosystem. Sophia Graham from Love Uncommon – who has so many great resources on self-consent among other things – and our beloved co-author Alex Iantaffi have put together an amazing programme of handouts, videos, recorded exercises and […] The post Mapping your relationship ecosystem…
Now that my new book with Alex Iantaffi, How to Understand Your Relationships, is out in the world (the last book in our How to Understand Your… series), I’m stocked that my interview about trauma and relationships is being included in the Reset Your Nervous System Super Conference. The interview covers: How developmental and cultural trauma impact our […] The post Reset Your Nervous System Super…
This post describes the thinking and feeling behind our new zine Plural Tarot (and Plural Tarot Companion). It takes the form of an interview between the self who created it – Fox – and another self – Ara. If you haven’t read one of our plural blog-posts before and aren’t sure who these people are, […] The post New Zines: Plural Tarot, and Plural Tarot Companion appeared first on Rewriting The…
The JKP Writing Prize for 2025 has just been announced with a theme of disability. JKP are the publishers of the books that we write together with Alex. They recently published Alex’s edited collection – Trans and Disabled – which including a chapter by us on plurality. The JKP Writing Prize is a competition for aspiring […] The post JKP Writing Prize: Everyday Disability and Chronic Illness…