This has been a quietly busy week.

Lots of planning, lots of *sitting with my feelings*, lots of letting ideas stew and marinade before beginning anything. You can read all about that here.

I’ve also been writing the first post for my new Autostraddle column! It’s gonna be a monthly series of interviews with 30-something queer-lady entrepreneurs at all stages of starting/running their own businesses. The focus of the column is on ‘finding your thing’, and different approaches to making money from your passions. Look out for that in the next few weeks!

And the weekend…is a right old party

Last night was Black Angel – hands down the best night out in Manchester IMHO. I’m writing this on Friday, so I’ve no idea what state I’ll be in on Saturday morning when this post goes live, but chances are I’ll be sleeping in 🙂

From the last Black Angel’s photo booth. Photo by Jules Styles Photography

Then tonight, hooyeer, it’s EUROVISION – live from Vienna!!! Anyone else partying?

And, it’s a bank holiday weekend. Whoop!

Here’s what’s been floating my boat this week:

If your understanding of Mercury retrograde (like mine) begins and ends with ‘um, communications get messed-up’, read this really helpful guide by Mecca Woods.

We live in a world of movement and as such, time slows down for no one.  With all of this constant forward momentum, it can be tough sometimes to determine if the direction that we’re moving in is the best one. This is where retrogrades come in. They act a little like time machines, helping us to go back and see where we’ve might have missed important information necessary for our progress and evolution. The goal is then to use the clues we’ve discovered to inform our future decision making process.

Missed out on the Slow Holler Tarot Kickstarter? Great news – you can still pre-order a copy of this deck (and buy other Slow Holler goodies) in the new online shop. The first print run will be limited to just 2000 copies – bagsy yours before they all go. (Read more about the Slow Holler Tarot project here.)

Four things cis* people forget. (*Cis: comfortably living/presenting as the gender you were assigned at birth.)

You know how your cat is so adorable the way they jump on your face, meow and knock things over to wake you up at 3am? There’s a game about that and it’s amazingly addictive!

What do you think about this art project which is sending 9000 drawings to the moon?

Maybe you’ve heard that the new Mad Max film has some women in it, being heroes. Well shucks, not everyone can handle that. Check out these Mad Max: Fury Road posters improved by Dailt Mail comments.

Scarlett Crawford is an artist and facilitator whose work looks at cultural and social identity within marginalised communities – and she’s about to take an MA in Global Creative and Cultural Industries at SOAS. If you’d like to help towards her fees, do so here.

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Lookout these gorgeus Feminist Playing Cards from Homoground!

Kesiena Boom is a friend, fellow Autostraddle writer and radical Black feminist writer extraordinaire. Seriously, she’s going to be very famous, very soon. I was honoured to have helped her get her website off the ground. Go read everything she’s written and follow her on Twitter!

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