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.
The secret’s out | The Misfit Diaries: Ch.11
Last month we went to the costume shop together for a top-secret project. This month, I can finally show you what it was for! Plus a trip to CPH Zine Fest, some very spooky shows, and getting ready for the UN.
One weird trick to start an art collection
When I was a kid, my mum turned me into an art collector before I was really old enough to know what that meant, and it’s the reason I made a calendar this year.
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.
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.
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.
Making a witchy autumn zine from old sketches
Every season, I make a little zine as a thank-you for the people who support my work. Join me in the studio with me as I put the autumn equinox zine together - the theme is harvest witch!
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.
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.
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.
Why I quit Instagram - let’s make the internet weird again
Join me in the studio as I slosh some paint around and make the case that idiosyncratic, personal websites are the future of the internet (and that neurodivergent people are leading the charge).
I overdid it - on purpose | The Misfit Diaries: Ch.8
Is it worth deliberately overworking in order to buy an easier life later? A 30-day experiment in burning hot on purpose, and the real cost of pushing a creative practice and a chronically ill body to its limits.
The book that made me glad to be autistic
Ready for a magic-filled library haul? This week, I’m diving into 8 incredible books that have quickly become some of my favorite reads of the year. Grab a cuppa and join me for a love letter to libraries!
What goes up, must come down | The Misfit Diaries: Ch.7
The comedown after a social extravaganza, and the slow climb back up. A month of quiet studio days, my summer solstice ritual, Sankt Hans Fest, a drag show and the cats (as always). Essential elements in the gentle art of tending oneself back to life.
It’s a Pisces moon thing
In this video I head to the beach to gather seaweed, shells, and inspiration for my latest Friends of the Haus zine - a love letter to summer memories by the water, made from old sketchbook pages, hand drawn lettering, and a lot of feelings (it's my Pisces moon!).
Finding my creative spark again | The Misfit Diaries: Ch.6
This is the story of how May brought new sparks of creativity into my life, through a fairly random series of incidents - also: thanks to the infamous Cat Distribution System WE UNEXPECTEDLY GOT CATS!
My husband’s algorithm is better than yours
Join us on the couch as Lars & I explore the delicious flurry of gay shit, puppets, autism shit, drag, cool angry women, and a whole bunch of other funny, weird, queer delights that populate his spectacular Instagram feed
Do you have to look 'different' to be different?
Someone asked me recently whether fully owning your difference inevitably makes it visible on the outside. In this video I share my answer along with some of my favourite, most ‘me’ outfits.
Sometimes I feel like a monster
What happens when the same week someone tells you that you've created a safe space where people feel truly seen, you also put your foot in it so spectacularly that your brain is still replaying the horror movie version three days later?
Reading to soothe my jangled nerves | Library haul
The construction outside has been relentless, my brain is frazzled, and the only thing that's making me feel better is losing myself in fictional worlds! So the wonderful Lars was dispatched to the library and came back staggering under the weight of a giant pile of books