Lisa looks back on her first office Christmas party as an out trans woman BY LISA BOND, IMAGE BY RODNAE PRODUCTIONS VIA PEXELS Christmas 2017 was for me the best of times and the worst of times. My relationship had finally ended and the fallout had spread as far as my work. I’d taken almost every [….]
Lisa looks back on transformation she saw in stories growing up and the life-changing magic of underwear BY LISA BOND, IMAGE BY CLIFF BOOTH VIA PEXELS Far and few Far and few are the lands where the Jumblies live Their heads are green and their hands are blue And they went to sea in a [….]
It’s like that with my brain: I have to build a player in my mind before I can access my oldest memories BY LISA BOND, IMAGE BY SUZY HAZELWOOD VIA PEXELS If you dial back your memories, beware – for beyond a certain point, the trail becomes rough and uncertain. Weeds and bushes push apart [….]
“It wasn’t that having a chest was the be-all and end-all. Boobs were simply milestones – markers of my journey” BY LISA BOND Boobs are a thing. Two things in fact: conceptual and actual. If Plato had had boobs or been interested in them (which it seems he was not), he would have discussed how [….]
Lisa Bond is on a very important mission… BY LISA BOND I reached the front of the security line and put my bag in the plastic tray, along with my house keys, watch and phone. The guards looked on sternly as I walked forward, arms raised as in pre-emptive surrender. A peaked cap passed a [….]
In the first of a news series, columnist Lisa Bond takes her first wobbly steps into womanhood BY LISA BOND Once upon a time there was a girl. I’m better at beginnings than endings – isn’t everyone? But that’s how my story began. Unlike most girls, I was completely unaware of the fact that I [….]
