Megbarker
MY BLOGS
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Social Mindfulness
http://socialmindfulness.wordpress.com/
Social mindfulness draws together projects which explore the social potentials of mindfulness. The kinds of issues and topics explored on the social mindfulness blog include:
The potential of existing mindfulness practices for addressing social issues, such as conflict, sustainability, and discrimination.
The development of mindfulness practices which are explicitly social and/or collective (e.g. with the aim of improving empathy, or conducted in conversations or groups).
Explorations of the possibility of mindful relationships.
Dialogues between mindfulness and social theory, social science and social psychology.
Mindfulness therapies which are located more explicitly within sociocultural understandings of human experience.
The application of mindfulness to social settings, such as healthcare, education, and social work. -
Northern Existential Group
http://northernexistentialgroup.wordpress.com/
Northern UK group on existential philosophy, psychology and psychotherapy
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BiUK
http://bisexualresearch.wordpress.com/
The UK national organisation for bisexual research and activism
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Rewriting the Rules
http://rewritingtherules.wordpress.com/
A blog on love, sex and relationships covering issues such as self-help, break-up, communication, conflict, marriage, LGBTQ, monogamy, non-monogamy, break-up, gender, sexuality, commitment, romance, depression, self-care, society, mindfulness, existentialism, philosophy, psychology, and counselling/therapy.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 326 )
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Four Things I’ve Learnt About Relationships for Poly Dallas Millenium
This year I was invited to speak at the Poly Dallas conference. The organiser, Ruby Boie Johnson, generously decided to subtitle the conference after my... Read more
Posted on 16 July 2018 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
All About Writing
This post is dedicated to Alessandro Pedori . Happy birthday! ... I've been meaning to write about writing for a while. When I went back through my all my old... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2018 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Non-binary Gender and LGBT History
February is LGBT history month which is always a busy time for me, hence few blog posts. I'm taking part in several events, mostly talking about the history of... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2018 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Podcast: Who to Talk to About Sex, and How
Just a reminder that relationships and sex educator extraordinaire Justin Hancock and I have a podcast over on megjohnandjustin.com. If you enjoy listening to... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2018 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
New Year, New Zine: Plural Selves
To mark the turning of the year I've made a new zine about one of the ideas that I've found the most helpful during the challenging times of 2017. This is the... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Hell is Other People?
I've been looking through old blog posts and bringing them together in one place over the holiday season. Here's one I wrote back in 2011 that's relevant to... Read more
Posted on 30 December 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
2017 Review: The Transgender Moral Panic
Today there's a piece by me on the trans moral panic of 2017 in . You can read that article here. I've also included a longer version of the same argument,... Read more
Posted on 27 December 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Rewriting the Rules of the Festive Season
Next year the second edition of my book Rewriting the Rules is coming out. As I was making the edits for the new (hopefully improved) version, I thought that th... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
New Resource on Gender, Sexual & Relationship Diversity (GSRD) and Mental Health
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance (#TDOR), a sad day indeed which remembers all the lives lost as a result of transgender-based hate or prejudice. This year... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Polyamory and Wonder Women
Many thanks to Anna Smith for including me in this fab Guardian article about the awesome new movie Professor Marston and the Wonder Women. Check out the... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
BiUK- Looking Back, Looking Forwards.
BiUK was established in 2004 by Meg-John Barker and Christina Richards, in order to promote and support bisexuality research in the UK and to create a link... Read more
Posted on 01 November 2017 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
How to Understand Your Gender – US Book Launch
Alex Iantaffi and I got to launch our book for the second time together this week. The first launch took place when he was visiting the UK in September, and thi... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
New Gender Zine
Alex Iantaffi and I have created a zine about gender to give you a sense of the kind of thing we cover in our book How to Understand Your Gender. It includes th... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
The Wheel of Consent and Why I’m a Fan
Content note: Includes descriptions of consensual kissing with people in more or less dominant and submissive mental states, and mention of non-consensual sexua... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Bi Visibility Day: Gay Invisibility
For bi visibility day (Sept 23rd) this year I wanted to share a piece I wrote a couple of years back imagining what the world would be like if bi people were... Read more
Posted on 22 September 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
How to Understand Your Gender
comes out today! It's my first time writing a full book with the amazing Alex Iantaffi, and we're so pleased with what's come out of our collaboration. Huge... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
It and Intergenerational Trauma
Last night I went to see the new (2017) movie version of Stephen King 's . I have a long history with this story so I almost didn't go. I was nervous that it... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
It and Intergenerational Trauma
Last night I went to see the new (2017) movie version of Stephen King 's It . I have a long history with this story so I almost didn't go. I was nervous that... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY -
Reading List on Bisexuality and Ageing
Here’s a reading list of academic literature on bisexuality and ageing. It’s a pretty small field, so the heading ‘Empirical studies of bisexuality and ageing’... Read more
Posted on 13 July 2017 LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX, SEXUALITY -
Mindfulness: It Ain’t What You Do It’s the Way That You Do It
Here's an old post on mindfulness, revamped now that I'm returning to the topic for the 2nd edition of my book Rewriting the Rules. What makes something... Read more
Posted on 10 July 2017 LOVE & SEX, RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY