Digital Garden

What is a digital garden?
How to start a digital garden.
Tending your garden.

leaves

pending webinar on digital gardening.
pending move to dumb phone in 2026.

Written a substack piece on Tony Blair informed by the global gaslighting we are all experiencing through politicians, media and institutions.

branches

what women already knew about telehealth
an article that led me down a rabbit-hole looking at the recent who toolkit for accessible telehealth services, which then led me to thinking about how since october 2021, the ni dept of health has refused to fund a central access point telehealth system for abortion in the north. this service is being run by bpas at a cost to themselves and there are anecdotally some difficulties here - especially emotionally. some abortion-seekers in ni feel stigmatised and uncomfortable speaking to british voices on the other side of the telephone line. it is also sometimes felt that the stress and impact of having decades of no access to to abortion isn't empathetically understood by british folks on the other side of the telephone. 

NOT MY BUSINESS
migrating to protonmail
non-us alternatives list
Auditing my online presence
articles explore how to retract from social media platforms and online corporations that monitor our browsing habits, physical movements. these articles are helping me plan for 2026 when i hope to move back to a 'dumb phone' and analog lifestyle. i want to be bored again!!

seeds

Does queer adjacency let men off the hook for poly?

Towards a reproductive justice framework for Africa

A complex legacy: USAID, population control, and reproductive justice in Africa 

Auditing my online presence
A treatise to download google sheets / offline excel and start to audit my internet use. Minimise time on smartphone as it is phased out, spend time on laptop making the internet a place. 

non-us alternatives list
comprehensive and updated list of non-us alternatives to accessing the web.

the threat from america
caroline cadwalladr drawing links between america acting as a rogue state and the global control it has over us through how we access the world through the internet.

interview with nicolas guillou, le monde
on being sanctioned by the united states - "the sanctions affect all aspects of my daily life. they prohibit any american individual or legal entity, any person or company, including their overseas subsidiaries, from providing me with services. all my accounts with american companies, such as amazon, airbnb, paypal and others, have been closed. for example, i booked a hotel in france through expedia, and a few hours later, the company sent me an email canceling the reservation, citing the sanctions. in practice, you can no longer shop online because you do not know if the packaging your product comes in is american. being under sanctions is like being sent back to the 1990s."

- reading articles approvingly citing the ni women's coalition without a class or reproductive rights-based lens

what women already knew about telehealth
an article looking at how much of the middle east and africa have embedded telehealth into their workflows - out of necessity. rather than just being seen as a western 'convenience,' telehealth offers a more immediate community and pharmacy-led pathway and arguably removes some paternalistic medical notions of control of patients.

tara brach resources: working with grief and loss
where to put feelings of sadness, panic, anger? what is the point in life if it can just be over - like that. unfairness. i’m afraid of being hardened by grief. i’m afraid in general. seeking answers to questions that no-one can ever answer. 

self soothe w/margeaux on its radio
listening to this radio show, in total grief, as my bus drove the winding road from malaga to granada. a fantastic variety of music, for the curious mind. listen to this :)

no husband. no kids. no regrets.
via the financial diet and zoë. there is a lot to be grateful for in the present moment and a lot to look forward to.

sister spinster sale
my favourite tincture-makers and a must-purchase any time i am near a stockist. sale now on and i highly recommend elderberry cordial.

NOT MY BUSINESS
excellent website/blog about navigating your relationship with the internet after leaving social media. pertinent reading following the one (1) like my lorine niedecker blogpost got :( am i here for 'likes' or am i here to express myself? "i write because there is a voice within me that will not cease" - always learning from sylvia plath even now.

gaza reveals how britain is run, and why we must change it
this article explains the failure of uk government to uphold human rights, to uphold international law (including “special immunity” for israeli leaders to visit britain), to decline to hold mp's accountable for their complicity in israeli genocide; for the refusal to respond to public pressures and the clampdown on civil liberties regarding the criminalisation of palestine action and their supporters, as well as excessive government secrecy. "britain has all the fancy trimmings of democracy but little of the real practice of it. uk foreign policy is in reality made by an elite few and routinely doesn’t promote the national public interest or real national security."

migrating to protonmail
i'm slowly trying to move away from ethically dubious and all-powerful online platforms and have started a transition to protonmail and its calendar system. i anticipate this will take 8-12 months to fully do.