I enjoy singing guest vocals in my husband’s band from time to time. I play acoustic guitar and sing. I am a keen run leader (England Athletics-qualified Leader in Running Fitness) and I teach people to run (Couch to 5K) and help them keep running regularly, in my village social running group Alvechurch Running Buddies.Continue reading “What I enjoy doing outside work”
Category Archives: LGBTQIA
Background on me
Having made it into Theo Smith’s list of Top 80 UK Neurodiversity Evangelists to follow, here is some background for my new followers. In 2018, I took my eldest child, who was 14 at the time, to see a psychiatrist about his extreme anxiety attacks. She listened and observed, then concluded that what he wasContinue reading “Background on me”
Straight passing relationships and LGBTQIA Pride
Straight passing relationships and LGBTQIA Pride: “A relationship is referred to as being ‘straight passing’ when even though one or more people in it are queer, their romantic and sexual identities are often perceived by others to be heteroromantic and heterosexual. This can occur, for example, when a cis, bi man is dating a cis,Continue reading “Straight passing relationships and LGBTQIA Pride”
Coming out story
#NationalComingOutDay I was sixteen when I first concluded that I was bi (thanks, Winona Ryder). I was open about this with my best friend, and my boyfriend at the time, but I was too embarrassed to discuss it with my family or wider social circle. However, the truth did come out during a sixth formContinue reading “Coming out story”
How to be an ally to bi and pan people
By Charlie Hart (Ausome Charlie) Understand what labels mean One definition of “bisexual” or “bi” is “attracted to more than one gender”. My preferred definition is this: May experience heterosexual (different sex) or homosexual (same sex) attraction. “Pansexual” or “pan” means when we are attracted to individuals, their gender does not come into it. NeitherContinue reading “How to be an ally to bi and pan people”
Insight into Bisexuality by Charlie
Some of Charlie’s lived experience as a bisexual woman
What being an ally means to me
Being an ally means supporting people and promoting acceptance of normal human differences. Allies can help to create a culture where all individuals feel supported, included, and valued. Sometimes allies stand up to bullying and discrimination, helping people to feel safe to be their authentic selves. Nobody should be bullied or excluded due to normalContinue reading “What being an ally means to me”
Iggy’s Initiative Introduction
Nobody should have to feel weird, ashamed, rejected, excluded, isolated due to their sexual orientation or their gender expression, nor due to their disability or neurological differences, nor any other human characteristic, but sadly this happens all the time. Young people, especially teenagers, can be particularly affected by lack of acceptance and support. An alarmingContinue reading “Iggy’s Initiative Introduction”
The Double Rainbow
Intersectional Diversity: The ‘Double Rainbow’ of Autism and LGBTQIA+ Here are Charlie’s answers to questions they were recently asked about their lived experience of the ‘double rainbow’. Can you explain what the term ‘double rainbow’ means? Studies show that autistic people are far more likely identify as a sexuality minority and/or a gender minority, comparedContinue reading “The Double Rainbow”
Making the Stonewall Top 100 Inclusive Employers List
What it means to me that my employer made it into the Stonewall Top 100: I have always been passionate about diversity and inclusion, partly because I am #autistic and bisexual and hence I identify as a member of an intersectional minority group. In our family there are gay, bisexual and gender-fluid young people, someContinue reading “Making the Stonewall Top 100 Inclusive Employers List”
Ausome Charlie 