The activist group London Bi Pandas put out a call for articles about protests and lockdown in direct response to anti-lockdown protesters. I asked which angles were most needed or which had already been claimed, and was asked if I could write about ways to protest.

I started writing 12 Ways to Protest During Lockdown (Without Being a Typhoid Mary). Later, I was asked if I would be happy to have my article and another person's edited together into a longer listicle.

The issues that London Bi Pandas focus their activism on are issues that I care about; LGBTQ rights, racial/cultural/religious equality, and left wing politics. I'm proud to be involved in the ways that I can, so I was more than happy to collabortate on A Guide to Protesting during Lockdown.

I've been invited to give a fifteen minute talk on the topic of my own queerness and faith. There will be a selection of speakers, short films and discussions with perspectives from various faith and secular points of view. I'm excited to get involved with the local community and to share my experience on how my gender and my beliefs fit together.

To hear me and enjoy the entire evening:
Come to Stratford Library, 3 The Grove, E15 1EL at 16:00, Saturday 23rd February
(Finishes at 19:00, refreshments provided)
Check out the facebook event

I recently received some professional advice on Aeron Reviews Films. The person knows my writing, and said that my film reviews are fairly neutral, and that my voice doesn't come through as much as it should; film reviews are a medium where enthusiasm and opinion shouldn't be held back, and personal voice is the attraction.

In light of this, I'm going to be rewriting some of my older reviews to get more of my voice in them, and to make sure I haven't held back on how I feel about those films. Don't worry, though, as I've been keeping to my new years' resolution so have plenty of new films to review. It won't all be film reviews, either, as I have plenty of ideas for articles to post on my Wordpress and some articles to submit to online magazines.

As always, recommendations and suggestions of online magazines to write for are very welcome.

After a very disappoint and even upsetting night out at Bar Soho, I wrote an article reviewing the bar. Annoyed at our treatment, I wanted to get my article out to as wide and targetted an audience as possible, so I joined trip advisor and posted it there.

When I had a fantastic night out at Dalston Superstore the following week, I thought it only right to use my new review platform and post a review of that.

Having two Trip Advisor reviews up, I decided to make a Media page on this website, to showcase these, previous and hopefully future times my writing has been published elsewhere. Doing both of these has motivated me to write more reviews, so keep an eye on my Trip Advisor profile, or the media page!

As part of my role volunteering at my Girls' Brigade company's summer, I create the booklets. With the first one I made, in 2011, I started with a blank document, using one of the previous years' booklets as a guide, and adding my own design flare. This year, however, was five days long rather than seven, so I had to redesign the booklet to prevent many half-empty pages.

By condensing and rearranging items, I brought the booklet from 12 sides, three sheets of paper, to eight sides, 2 sheets of paper. This also changed the contents order of the booklet, something that hasn't changed in many years. Luckily, it was unnoticed among other changes caused by the shorter time.

Part of the responsibility of creating the booklets is that the squads and the squad duties are not organised until they are included in the booklet. Just as I had done for the previous two years, I arranged the girls in squads by age, making sure sisters were not in the same squad, and arranged the squads so each has equal duties.