Mirror Moments, or, Practising to be Me. 

Something I wrote and gave nearly a year ago - but it may be of interest. A lunchtime Seminar for LGBT History Month Sponsored by PRIDE Cymru and Cardiff University LGBT+ Staff Network Wednesday 17th February 2016 Very good to be with you today. And thanks to the sponsors of this event. This talk is …

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Lamenting Orlando

Sometimes place names get meanings they would rather not. From now on, Orlando will always mean the Pulse massacre - the biggest loss of life in any American mass shooting in modern times. It will live like Sandy Hook, or Dunblane, or Hungerford in our consciousness of horror and terror. But it will not be as puzzling …

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