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Audacity is the most important creative skill

"I'm not like you. I could never do that." Someone said this to me during a studio visit, and it broke my heart a little - because I don't think audacity is a type of person. I think it's the most important creative skill there is, and anyone can learn it.

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Getting out of a reading slump

I haven’t read a single book in a month, and for someone who usually gets through 5–10 a week that’s kind of a big deal! Luckily, I have a foolproof trick for getting back into it.

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Going viral | The Misfit Diaries: Ch.10

September was the month I went viral. Twice. One was a lot more fun than the other! Join me for a secret-project trip to the costume shop, celebratory cocktails, freshly printed zines, and an autumn equinox card pull that's full of good advice.

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You don’t owe anyone your creative process

If you've ever felt like a fraud for not making constantly - for having fallow stretches, or working in sprints and bursts instead of a tidy daily grind - or resented the fact that the insatiable content beast of social media wants to consume every last scrap of your creativity, then this one's for you.

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The artist is dressed: dopamine dressing

Join me for a week of dopamine dressing and witness the mood-boosting power of clothes as they take me from bog-witch to glam bitch! If you're into pattern-mixing, colour-play, and the creative process of getting dressed in a way that showcases the real you, then I think you'll love this offering.

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Pride, painting, and plot twists | The Misfit Diaries: Ch.9

Pride month in Copenhagen, which brought up All The Feelings for me - the joyful, the complicated, and the ones I'm still untangling. Plus a queer art show, a gloriously boundary-fucking burlesque, some ridiculously exciting (and terrifying) news, and a return to painting after a break.

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The outsider history of black & white stripes

Everyone thinks of Tim Burton when they see black and white stripes, but there’s a hell of a lot more to the story than that. Join me for my first ever video essay exploring the 700+ year history of how the stripe was used to mark outsiders, and how outsiders reclaimed it as their own.

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