Last Friday night, I performed at the Queer Community Comedy Night at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam. It was such a great experience. The reality is queer stand-up comedy events just have a different energy about them. In my experience, the audience is often way more hyped and far more supportive, and the comedians are more comfortable letting themselves… More The Importance of Queer Comedy Nights
Gay Pride month is one huge, commercial party nowadays. With slogans like “Love is love” and other vagaries I think we sometimes fail to talk about some of the very important things that LGBTQ+ people face in their day-to-day realities. So here are four things to think about this Pride month. Hate crimes against LGBTQ+… More 4 things to remember this Pride month
I recently re-downloaded Spotify, after not having used it for many years, and listening to my “favourites” playlist, I heard one of the songs that I used to cry to as a teenager driving home from school. This triggered a number of other memories and, after a sleepless night piecing everything together, I came to… More I was a queer teenager and I didn’t know it
A couple of months ago I went to a demonstration for the first time since the pandemic started. This demo (by transzorgnu) was organised as the start of a movement to fight against the state of transgender healthcare in the Netherlands. Throughout the many speeches and social media content surrounding the demonstration, I was constantly struck… More Healthcare, ableism and transphobia