On living with lower libido, due to mental health & trauma, perimenopause, HRT & ageing, chronic illness and identity shifts.
#LifeUnscripted #LowLibido #Perimenopause #Midlife #MentalHealth #TraumaRecovery #ChronicIllness #IdentityShift #LifeWriting #PersonalEssays #LivedExperience #HealingJourney #WomensHealth #HormoneHealth #SelfReflection #MidlifeJourney #QuietRevolution #EmotionalWellbeing #WritingLife
https://carasutra.com/2026/01/living-with-low-libido/
If you thought Facebook memories from 'way back when' were cringe, try reading long public essays that vehemently state views that no longer resemble the person you are today.
Yikes on several bikes 😬
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BECOMING A MAN INSIDE A MAN’S BODY — Why I Couldn’t Fit Into Sexual Roles
I lived for a long time between definitions — not wanting labels that didn’t fit, yet not feeling prepared for the roles I was told a man should embody.
This piece is about becoming, not explaining.
About learning to inhabit the self without force or performance.
🔗 Article link below
#Masculinity #Identity #SelfDiscovery #InnerWork #Becoming #PersonalEssay #LifeWriting #ConsciousLiving
NEW BLOG: 'Life writing, family stories and "history from below"', by Alison Twells, author of 'A Place of Dreams: Desire, Deception and a Wartime Coming of Age'
'We still have so few accounts of ordinary peoples’ lives told in their own voices and on their own terms [...] might Norah’s diaries allow a different kind of access to a working-class girl’s interior life?'
Read the post: https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/life-writing-family-stories-and-history-from-below/
Read the book: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0461
Decide How You’ll Write About Your Life
We here at WU believe in fiction’s power, and work every day to improve how we wield it. But many of life’s real events can be spun into equally engrossing stories. This raises a quandary for the writer who hopes to process, and then share, an aspect of their life on the page.
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/10/09/decide-how-youll-write-about-your-life/
#REALWORLD #Writinglife #creativenonfiction #KathrynCraft #lifewriting
“Connection reaches into Rodge’s work not just as a responsibility, but through his writing method as well”
SNACK Magazine speaks to Rodge Glass about moving to Glasgow, first meeting Alasdair Gray, & his latest book Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir
Today is #welovememoirsday and also @unesco International Day for People of African Descent
To celebrate both, remember you can find lots and lots of #memoirs by #BlackWriters in our collection. The picture shows only a small part!
🔥 Excited to see the full special cluster "Life Narrative & the Digital" in #EuropeanJournalOfLifeWriting now online:
https://ejlw.eu/announcement/view/223
We thank all contributors, reviewers, copy-editors, & journal editors; as well as @DHd for supporting this project through their #OpenAccess #Publikationsfonds.
@fwf @fwfopenaccess @ACDHCH_OeAW @oeaw @uwuttke @wscholger @altbot
The 3rd & final day of #DGAVL #conference today saw another great & diverse mix of topics - from #disability #lifewriting in Argentinian lit. in Malena Pastoriza's paper, to Ines Gstrein's on Ali Smith, Piera Mazzaglia on Humans of New York & Serena Obkircher on Barbi Marković's "Minihorror"...
Some highlights of this #DGAVL #conference include @NitzkeSolvejg's talk on tree/nature/ #lifewriting as well as Monika Schmitz-Emans on artists' books, Beatrice Nickel on graphic #autobiographies & Patrick Lars Müller on autobiographical accounts of encounters w #aliens 👽- very diverse topics!
Can you be in 2 places at once...? 🤔 Well, the #FIDAAC can! We're currently not only at the #conference of the #DGfA in Siegen but also at the one of the #DGAVL (Dt. Gesell. f allg. & vgl. Lit.Wiss) in Gießen, which discusses #lifewriting from many angles. Pls say hi if you're here or there, too!👋
Another great panel at the GAPS #conference heard Cherise Fung talk about silence & agency of Asian women in care, Tola Ositelu on meritocracy in 3 #memoirs by Black British women, and Dorit Neumann on Danaé Wellington's poem "The blue jeans asks her"
#BlackPoetry #PostcolonialStudies #LifeWriting #BlackStudies
Just waiting for Amazon to give my memoir the go ahead, then it will be available!
#WritingCommunity #Author #Memoir #CreativeWriting #LifeWriting
Make Life Your Biggest Art Project: Pia Leichter On Writing, Creative Courage, And Changing Your Narrative via @thecreativepenn
https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2025/05/05/make-life-your-biggest-art-project-pia-leichter-on-writing-creative-courage-and-changing-your-narrative/
#AmWriting #WritingLife #WritingTips #LifeWriting
🔥 Hot off the press:
Following on from our #DigitalBio2023 conference, the first three contributions to our special cluster "Life Narrative & the Digital" in #EuropeanJournalOfLifeWriting have now been published:
https://ejlw.eu/announcement/view/208
My memoir 'Emerging: An Artistic Practice Saved My Life,' is currently being edited and will hopefully be available in May. The editors are doing a great job, and I'm happy with the process so far. You can find them at www.bookpublication.co.uk
Excited to announce the publication (open access) of my article
'How I became the man I had always been: Narrating the self in recent English and German life writing by trans men'
in Forum for Modern Language Studies
https://academic.oup.com/fmls/advance-article/doi/10.1093/fmls/cqaf004/8042371
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