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I Don’t Fit the Box So I Love Outside It
I Don’t Fit the Box So I Love Outside It By El Amethyst I don’t do boxes I never have Not for gender Not for identity And definitely not...

El Amethyst
Aug 110 min read


Seeing the Climate Crisis Differently: What Social Theory Teaches Us
🌍 Seeing the Climate Crisis Differently: What Social Theory Teaches Us “Social theories act as maps. They help us find our way through...

El Amethyst
Jul 314 min read


The Day I Finally Burned That Last Bridge (And Felt Free)
[Forenote: I'm just going to dive right in, full kaos and bat shit crazy. It any one needs a back story of the generation trauma and...

El Amethyst
Jul 317 min read


I Got a First Class Degree During a Pandemic, a Court Case, Multiple Bereavements and a Goddamn Identity Crisis
I did it. After six years of relentless, soul-stripping, mind-blowing life and study, I’ve got a First Class Honours Degree in Social...

El Amethyst
Jul 228 min read


Typed, Torn, Transformed: My Soul in 214 Poems and One Nebula
How typing out every raw, ink-scribbled page shattered decades long gaslighting, rebuilt my trust in 'her' my teen self and sparked the...

El Amethyst
Jun 2619 min read


From Moonlight to Manifesto: How Poetry Became My Queer History
Rediscovering the Moonlight: How 'Night Time' Opened a Window Back to My 15-Year-Old Self To fully appreciate the landscape of my queer...

El Amethyst
May 1914 min read


“So This Is How Democracy Dies … With Thunderous Applause”
There’s a scene that lives in my bones … Revenge of the Sith, Padmé Amidala’s voice trembling not with shock, but recognition: “So this...

El Amethyst
May 45 min read


Soulpunk Softwear
A visual and emotional journal in threads “I don’t follow fashion. I forge it.” — Me, wrapped in memory, stitched in truth. There are...

El Amethyst
May 32 min read


Spaces between our queerness
208. Spaces between our queerness 22nd April 2025 Born between the same hush of sky Just in different spaces within its expanse I've...

El Amethyst
Apr 222 min read


Rulings and Realities: A Spectrum Too Vast to Cage (Sex & Gender)
They did it again. Another ruling handed down by those who do not live the realities they claim to define. Another tightening of the...

El Amethyst
Apr 199 min read


A revolutionary game changer in mental health care; repositioning away from biomedical paradigm!
Exciting times for many in the field of mental health who are repulsed by the treatment and stigma created by capitalist societies...

El Amethyst
Oct 11, 20238 min read


My journey to becoming OBAN LESBIAN WEEKEND's Crew Photographer;
How I went from being in a mental health crisis, one of the lowest it had dipped to, to being in one of the most stable places my mental...

El Amethyst
Aug 17, 202320 min read


Personal opinions used as "barriers to reasoned debate" & "brutality" of modern political discourse!
Wednesday 15th February 2023 [mild trigger warning] Today I got up to the news that Nicola Sturgeon was resigning. Like probably...

El Amethyst
Feb 16, 20238 min read


Reyvinn; we had to say goodbye before we even got to say hello.
I Went to A & E early hours of boxing day due to severe pain all day Christmas day that I thought was really bad IBS Mild bleeding had...

El Amethyst
Jan 19, 20236 min read


Always in our hearts; Our deeply loving, Candid, Stubborn & feircly independent Nana
Words are hard! Very hard. Our Nana passed early on the morning of her 93rd birthday, it felt like her will, her choice, she was born on...

El Amethyst
Jan 18, 20233 min read


a wound unmended- no said good-bye For all my life I will wonder why:
The past month I have only been able to express in quotes and imagery, this complex grief Everyone remembers the day the Queen died. 8th...

El Amethyst
Oct 12, 20224 min read


Path to Self discovery: Queer, Polyam, Relationship Anarchist rebelling hetronormative expectations
Forenote; I'm a lesbian married to a man looking for a girlfriend... Lets, just stop for a minute and reflect on that...

El Amethyst
Jun 4, 202214 min read


When Music Speaks!
Long before I discovered any other form of self-care, therapy, escapism, or self-expression I turned to Music! In times of intense...

El Amethyst
Sep 4, 20216 min read


What Friendship means to me..
Most people understand the term, have friends and spend time with them. However, rarely do people understand what friendship means to me!...

El Amethyst
Aug 26, 20213 min read


Photography is more than taking Photos!
A few years ago in a college interview I exclaimed that Photography was more than a job to me, it was a "lifestyle choice" and a way of...

El Amethyst
Aug 21, 20211 min read
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