The fight is real and it continues (Originally published 24th June 2021 in Prism & Pen) Today, in my beautiful city of Liverpool, we marched. We marched because this Pride month has been marked by a spate of hate crimes against queers. Fifty five years after Comptons, more than half a century since Stonewall, the fight remains…

The Tories are at it again. — Yesterday, Sunday August 13, the UK government’s Minister for Women and Equalities, Kemi Badenoch, made a pronouncement, going so far as writing an entire column in the right-wing rag, The Telegraph. What was so important on a lazy Sunday? Toilets. More specifically, a new requirement that new buildings must provide…

A Long-anticipated Tryst — (Originally published in The Scarlett Letter 21-02-10) From the airport to the hotel, the taxi ride is like every other time, except it isn’t. There was a new tension when we kissed through our grins at the arrivals lounge. It’s been too long. I’ve missed you. Desperately. So here we…

Showing how it’s done. — (Originally published in Prism & Pen on 21/02/03.) Last Tuesday Governor Pedro Pierluisi declared a state of emergency in the American territory of Puerto Rico. Why? Because of the prevalence of gender-based violence. This includes violence against women and transgender people. The announcement follows the brutal killing of Samuel Edmund Damian…

One of those days — (Originally published in Prism & Pen 21/01/2021.) Moonlighter was the first hit. The crisp, virgin powder beneath his feet suddenly, with no hint of a warning, lifted and sent him somersaulting across the clearing. He landed deftly and spun, reaching under and back to grasp and retrieve his battle axe. …

Unless they’re queer, in which case, screw ‘em — (Originally published 13th January 2021 in Prism & Pen) US Secretary for Education Betsy DeVos served her last day on the 8th of January of this year, having tendered her resignation a day earlier. …

What’s going on? — (Originally published through Prism & Pen 6/1/21.) So... It was literally Christmas for the transphobes with the right wing toilet paper omnibus the Telegraph giving us this gem: https://web.archive.org/web/20201225233400/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/25/lesbians-facing-extinction-transgenderism-becomes-pervasive/amp/ This is stealth transphobia, under cover of blatant transphobia. The blatant hate is from the usual suspects, LGB Alliance, and the…

When is the right time? — (Originally published in Prism & Pen 20th December 2020.) I’ve been out as a trans woman now for a meagre fourteen months. Now, I don’t know it that means I’m beyond the period when I could safely be described as 'babytrans' but despite it only being a tad over a…

Finally getting my shit together. Hi there. I’m Abigail Imogen Drake. I’ve been writing on Medium since late 2020, off and on. Mostly off. Late 2021 I suffered a string of breakdowns. Maybe I’ll recount those days sometime, maybe I won’t. But crucially, I attempted to commit ‘virtual suicide’. I…