Decoding Static is home to the writing, art and photography of Andy Harrod. Including the Guardian First Book nominated tearing at thoughts.
Lins hosts a weekly column on being childfree at her website, Boo & Maddie. Today, I tell my story of being childless. I am nowhere close to saying I am childfree, for that has the connotation of choice, and the one thing about being childless is the choicelessness of it. But I am there saying […]
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On Thursday 19 September 2019 it is Men Matter Too day as part of World Childless Week 2019. I share my reflection on being on the Fullstop Podcast. Please do visit the honest, open and heartfelt stories at Men Matter Too. Thank you.
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It is World Childless Week this week and under the theme of Childlessness and the Arts I share a piece of art I have created that represents how my heart feels. The cracking and bruising is not only to the losses and grief of being childless not by choice, but also the masking of my […]
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It felt like I had to take part. And then I was floored as I was asked to say a little about myself. I’m childless, is there more? From (un)becoming an imposter I reached out and began the process of re-belonging, not only as a childless man, and as a part of a childless couple, […]
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The wearing of masks leaves scars. Scars, which I haven’t always allowed to heal. It is the daily picking of these scars, which, for me, defines being an imposter. The underlying uncomfortableness of inhabiting myself, physically, emotionally, mentally. At many times during my life so far, I have been disconnected, insecure and in conflict. Too […]
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I am late. Grief has that habit of interrupting promises, attempts to return to what was the normal. Even so normal shifts everyday and with grief it lurches everyday, there was still that false aim. It was being in grief, with loss, for something I’ll never know, which introduced me to Influx Press via Paul […]
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‘A lion’s eye stares, asking you… And is that a snout or a dragon’s eye in shadow [a dead phone & digital memo lost], watching over its gold as the lion starves. The clockwork gears shifting.’ Void Voices by James Knight begins with an image, lion infused clockwork. Further images are dispersed throughout the book, […]
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As part of Burning House Press month of BELONGING/RETURNING/RETREATING curated by Rachael de Moravia my new writing and art, under there, somewhere, was included under the theme of (non)BELONGING. “A digital collage//textual hybrid exposition of distorted music, missed signals and unbelonging” Rachael de Moravia. ‘Drum sticks meet, guitars rev. On his knees wailing ‘Imagine your […]
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It is World Childless Week this week and today’s theme is Men Matter Too. I have shared a story of my grief, Dancing under Rainbows. ‘…The gate swings open, four small wheels roll along the path; a deafening war cry. His heart pounds. They knock…’ Childlessness is a grief that will never leave me, a […]
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The ‘shark faced boomerangs’ seem the least of Gareth E Rees’ problems. For there is the dilapidated house in need of not only renovating, but also an exorcism or three. Then there is that nagging pain in his groin. Not to mention how the coast whips up the ghost of his dead friend. And so […]
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