Queer Minds is Nearly Here!
Sorry for my absence on Substack lately - life has been abruptly hard this year. A big spark of joy in my life, however, is my new book Queer Minds, which is coming out on Tuesday the 21st of October - hurray!
Queer Minds feels like one of the most important projects I’ve ever worked. It brings together interviews from queer people around the world, each offering their own expertise and lived experience of different elements of mental health and neurodiversity.
In Queer Minds, you’ll find chapters about how queer people dream, how transness and ADHD bring creativity, about what therapy training as a non-binary person can look like, about what recovery after forced conversion therapy can look like, and much more.
Queer Minds is about the beautiful and complex ways that LGBTQ+ people survive and thrive in systems that weren’t made for us. It’s a book filled with hope, resistance, community, and healing.
I have some events coming up to celebrate the release:
🌈 Cosy Book Launch with BookWyrm
🗓️ 21st October 2025
📍 3 of Cups Café, Durham
Join me for a cosy evening at the official launch party! I’ll be reading from Queer Minds, chatting about the book, and signing your copies, followed by a chance to do some quiet reading with a hot drink in hand. Come celebrate with good books, community, and warm vibes.
🌈 Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute Celebration
🗓️ 1st November 2025
📍Nottingham
I’ll be reading from the book and talking about the importance of neurodivergent queer voices in all facets of mental health. I’ll be taking questions and signing books, and there’ll also be drinks and nibbles. Enjoy a reflective, hopeful evening connecting queer neurodivergent experiences with mental health practice.
🌈 1B Books
🗓️ 14th November 2025
📍 Newcastle
I’ll be sharing more information closer to the date, but mark your calendars!
We want everyone to feel safe and able to enjoy these events, so please only attend if you’re feeling well and consider taking a COVID test beforehand. Wearing a mask is encouraged (I’ll be wearing one as much as possible), and we’ll be spacing chairs to allow some distancing.
I can’t wait to share Queer Minds with you all. It’s been such a labour of love, one that’s shaped by community, curiosity, and care. I hope it feels like a conversation you can belong to, and a reminder that our queer, neurodivergent minds are something to be cherished. Thank you for being here.