When queer experience leads the way
How do you find home in your own body?
How do you become a whole person when your story is characterised by shame, expectations or lost parts of yourself?
These are some of the questions at the centre of my new mini book A queer body - Desire, shame and freedom.
The book is based on queer experiences - not to create distance, but because the minority gaze often makes visible something that many people carry in secret.
When you've struggled with your body, sexuality or faith, you develop a special ability to see blind spots and longings that others can easily overlook.
Stories of courage and truth
Through stories, research, spirituality and body psychology, the book explores how the body can become a truth space.
A place where freedom is not an ideal, but an experience:
Breathe deeply,
To stop apologising for themselves,
To feel what's true and what's not.
Along the way, we meet people who found the courage to live the life they didn't get to live.
A man who stopped performing love.
A woman who found faith again in her own body.
A nonbinary person who refused to make her body smaller than it is.
An invitation to freedom
This book is written for everyone - queer and straight, believer and non-believer - who wants more freedom, more truth and more space in their own lives.
It's an invitation to take your body, your story and your longing seriously.
And maybe start taking his life back.
