Fern Angel Beattie·Aug 31, 2023Post-Covid Loneliness as a 30-Something MillennialThe seed must have been planted unknowingly during lockdown when I first entered my new decade: a vague, pervading sense of loneliness that…
Fern Angel Beattie·Jan 28, 2021Growing Up Gay & Gwen StefaniGranted, it was the music and the pawprints on Eve’s boobs that first drew my attention to the television screen in my mum’s friend’s…
Fern Angel Beattie·Aug 10, 2020My Definition of Platonic LovePlato’s Symposium is a Classical text on the meaning of Love. This fictional masterpiece is set during a drinking party in the home of the…
Fern Angel Beattie·Aug 10, 2020My Grandmother Dragged Me Out of the ClosetI was 12 years old when I first suspected I liked women. I was obsessed with a girl named Roisin in the year above me at school. Each…
Fern Angel Beattie·May 11, 2020Love is a ChoiceWhen I was a child, my mum told me that the love one usually ends up making a home with is one that feels familiar and safe, rather than…