Hi, I’m Jennifer and this is my blog.<\/p>\n
For work I mostly do writing<\/strong>, music<\/strong> and organising things<\/strong>.\u00a0 I’m self-employed, and open to offers of paid work if you’re creating something that’s up my street.<\/p>\n Once upon a time I did a maths & computing<\/strong> degree, and I am still quite techie by average standards.\u00a0 Yes I am a geek basically :-)<\/p>\n I write songs<\/strong>, and sometimes make other kinds of music<\/strong>.\u00a0 Single Bass<\/a> is “songs + voice + solo electric bass guitar”.\u00a0 I toured quite a bit in my youth and made a CD album.\u00a0 You can hear a song via the playback thing further down this page.<\/p>\n I’m interested in creative processes<\/strong> (and process-geekery generally), especially what gets people stuck & unstuck.\u00a0 I wrote a zine<\/a> about creativity which gives a pretty good idea of how I think about that stuff.\u00a0<\/p>\n One of my best skills is the kind of nonfiction writing<\/strong> which analyses<\/strong> a situation and explains<\/strong> it.\u00a0<\/p>\n Nottingham<\/strong>, England, is my home base.\u00a0 The main networks I’m part of here are (a) queer\/bi<\/strong> communities and (b)\u00a0non-school education<\/strong>, sometimes known as “home ed”.\u00a0 Since covid started, I’ve got quite into running online events as well.<\/p>\n I have a classical music<\/strong> background, originally violin.\u00a0 I’ve written a handful of pieces for orchestra, and spent a while running one for adult learners.\u00a0 I’m brewing a covid-careful, beginner-friendly string orchestra for Nottingham<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n As a facilitator for group discussions<\/strong> and learning environments<\/strong>, I like to ensure that everyone’s included and no-one’s stressfully “put on the spot”.\u00a0 Besides music teaching (inc songwriting & stagecraft), I’ve done “bisexuality awareness” sessions, created the format for “Fitting and misfitting in the bi community”, and hosted a variety of different discussions and informal meetups.\u00a0<\/p>\n I’m currently learning how to do Systemic Modelling<\/a>, a specific way to support people to learn about themselves & each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n I make beautiful little one-inch button badges, known as the “identity badges<\/strong>“, and you can see a picture of them further down this page.\u00a0 So far, I’ve sold about 4,000 of them, some at events and some by mail-order.\u00a0 I started them partly because back in the 1990s there was hardly any merch for bi people, but then they expanded into some other areas too.<\/p>\n I’ve lived in England<\/strong> all my life except for 3 years in the Netherlands<\/strong> as a kid, where I went to the Montessori School in Leiden and learnt to speak Dutch.\u00a0<\/p>\n In terms of class<\/strong> background, I feel I had “the luck of the draw”:\u00a0 both sides of my family of origin went “skilled working class” \u2192 education \u2192 well-paid indoor jobs”.\u00a0 So that meant woodwork tools at home, a love of learning, and<\/em> enough money for music lessons.\u00a0<\/p>\n I started this blog in 2007.\u00a0 Despite the long life of the blog, there’s not that<\/em> many posts here, what with being busy and the time it takes me to think things through to my satisfaction.\u00a0 The web site as a whole pre-dates the blog;\u00a0 I first set that up in 1997, and some of the earliest stuff is available from the original main home page<\/a>.<\/p>\n A list of blog “categories<\/strong>” is available towards the bottom of any article page. WordPress allows you to follow a RSS feed of any individual category page – possibly useful if you’re only interested in a subset of what I write about.<\/p>\n On the Fediverse<\/strong>, I’m at @UnchartedWorlds@scicomm.xyz<\/a>, SingleBass@musicians.today<\/a>, @BookTrail@sunny.garden<\/a> for tiny book reviews, @IdentityBadges@sunny.garden<\/a> for the badges and @NBFSOrchestra@musicians.today<\/a> for the orchestra. If you don’t want a Fediverse account but would like to follow any of these, another option is to use a feed reader:\u00a0 all Mastodon feeds can be read as RSS.<\/p>\n I’m not much on Twitter<\/strong> any more, but the earlier book reviews are at @BookTrail<\/a>, my main account is at @UnchartedWorlds<\/a>, and there’s also @SingleBass<\/a>.<\/p>\n For simplicity, I’m okay with “she\/her” pronouns<\/strong>, although in my own mind I might be more of a genderqueer “they”.\u00a0 On the whole, gender is weird :-)<\/p>\n You can email me<\/a> if you like (old page, still mostly true).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi, I’m Jennifer and this is my blog. For work I mostly do writing, music and organising things.\u00a0 I’m self-employed, and open to offers of paid work if you’re creating something that’s up my street. 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