Archive - Selenite Days

I fill the car multiple times with rotting pieces of wood stored in our garage and take them to the recycling centre. I fill bag after bag with fabrics…

May 2 •

March 2024

The Swedish Hello

It was a Tuesday in 2290, and at the edge of the Sol system, the Qarlon fleet emerged from hyperspace with a soft squelch. Earth's forces had been…

Mar 5 •

February 2024

"Woke" writing treats diversity as an endpoint instead of a starting point

If you’re not interested in people, you have no business writing a drama series.

Feb 4 •

January 2024

All Of Us Strangers review

I went to see All Of Us Strangers, a metaphysical gay romance starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, loosely based on a Japanese novel from 1987. It’s…

Jan 26 •

My first apology tour

You can never start too early.

Jan 10 •

December 2023

Yes, the MCU is good, actually

It's not Andrzej Wajda's "Tatarak", but what is?

Dec 26, 2023 •

Wrestling a shirtless ex-neo-Nazi in the Black Forest

(Or "I wish I hadn't been so asexual when I was 21...")

Dec 3, 2023 •

May 2023

The spicy-straight line of progress

Three quotes that epitomise the journey gay rights has taken in the UK

May 21, 2023 •

PC Karen Carpenter left the police station less than half an hour after she had arrived. She downed her usual instant coffee, black; just yesterday a…

May 18, 2023 •

I turned 40 recently. My mom, who has dementia, was crying because she forgot to say happy birthday or get me a card. Then she found a card in a drawer…

May 11, 2023 •

February 2023

Peaking the computer: A conversation with ChatGPT about gender ideology

(Warning: contains Glaswegian.)

Feb 24, 2023 •

That time my friends were so desperate to be "allies" they tried to force me to come out to them

The moment I meet Jenny and her sister Lacey, there’s something off about their vibe. They seem hyped up, overexcited, coiled and ready to spring. It…

Feb 17, 2023 •

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