questioninguk.blog

@questioninguk
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UK teacher blogging about education from an LGBTQ+ perspective.

https://questioninguk.blog/
@hlseward Hello! Sorry I missed this when you posted it and only just noticed it now, not been on Mastodon much. Hope your 2026 has been ok so far!

Hello. It’s been a while, sorry.

Anyway I wrote a

*NEW BLOG POST*

It’s about sport, and me being a bit rubbish at it.

http://questioninguk.blog/2026/01/02/sport/

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Sport

Sport, sport, masculine sport Equips a young man for Society Yes, sport turns out a jolly good sort It’s an Odd Boy who doesn’t like sport – Sport (The Odd Boy) – Bonzo Dog Doo-Da…

Questioning

Tom Ravenscroft’s brilliant podcast ‘The Sheds at Peel Acres’ - where he plays records from his dad John Peel’s ginormous record collection - now has 100 Patreon subscribers, but really deserves many many more. Spread the word and, if you can afford the £4 a month, consider becoming a supporter

https://www.patreon.com/TheShedsAtPeelAcres?utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan

@ijk thank you for saying this - they made me feel quite bad about myself, despite not doing anything wrong. Other users were happily responding to my post before the mods waded in!

@questioninguk More seriously though, I relate to your struggles quite a bit. I *despise* the experience of being on a dating app, but I have no choice to wade back into their hell if I ever again in my life feel not so ugly, because I *need* a space where the explicit purpose of being there is to speak to strangers and find a partner.

Being autistic, I've never figured out how to cross that barrier in any other kind of space which I live my life in, and nobody's ever crossed it for me in those spaces either. It would be amazing if there were persistent real-life spaces for doing that, but there's not, and so we have to go through this excruciating process.

@questioninguk

I love the straight allies that "don't see sexuality," really I do, but "What's being gay got to do with it?" is pretty oblivious. It's great that they're treating sexuality as not-a-big-deal, but that doesn't mean we get to.

At long last it’s a…

*NEW POST*

In which I consider the possible perils of online dating while working in education.

http://questioninguk.blog/2025/09/22/dating-as-a-teacher/

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Dating as a Teacher

It’s been a while.  Again.  I started writing this post about three months ago, but things got busy and I’m only just getting round to finishing it.  I thought I’d write a post about…

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Just walked past a group of vaping teenagers. Only one of them, just ONE, had the decency to smoke a real cigarette. A good man who will go on to do great things
Preparing myself for the new school year by instablocking any teacher who expresses enthusiasm for it
I feel you, Eddy.