About Sophie

Trials & tribulations of my increasingly full-time girl-mode.

sophie @ baskerville.net

Category: Boy-Mode

  • Croatia Beckons

    Freshly returned from România, now off to Croatia for a week, most of which will be work. Some play. And some (finishing my late BCC2025 write-up for a start) a combination of the two. I don’t yet have a great feel for the level of open acceptance of the non-binary in Croatia. The larger cities…

  • Selective Recollection

    Memory is a truly amazing and complicated thing. The range and nature of things that we do, and do not, remember, is a confusing mess. This came to mind recently because of a specific recollection of mine. Some people I know can tell you what they ate in detail on any day stretching months or…

  • Why are some people so scared? ❄️❄️❄️

    Warning: narrow minded individuals will be grossly offended, so stop reading here eh? So often it seems like prejudice against people being who they want to be is driven by fear and insecurity. Fear amongst those who feel threatened by difference. Insecurity amongst those who are scared that they might actually be different themselves and…

  • The Big Question

    Everyone wants to know, but not many know how to ask, or dare to ask This might end up quite long, so here’s the TL;DR “Much to the confusion of many, I’m a straight man who like to crossdress as a woman some of the time, but not all of the time. This appears to…

  • ̶B̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶H̶o̶l̶e̶s̶ ̶ Xmas Parties and Revelations

    An Xmas meet-up of around 10-15 former colleagues presents both opportunities and worries. All the ladies in the group except two already know about Sophie. Only one of the men though – and that was accidental (see this article) although he was on the list I was planning to tell. That left a substantial number…

  • 1̶2̶ ̶Y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶S̶l̶a̶v̶e̶ 12 Days in Girl-Mode (2/2)

    1̶2̶ ̶Y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶S̶l̶a̶v̶e̶ 12 Days in Girl-Mode (2/2)

    When the opportunity arose to spend 12 days in girl-mode away from home staying with a good close friend and attending a series of Pride events, it felt kind of scary yet kind of exciting.

  • 1̶2̶ ̶Y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶S̶l̶a̶v̶e̶ 12 Days in Girl-Mode (1/2)

    1̶2̶ ̶Y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶S̶l̶a̶v̶e̶ 12 Days in Girl-Mode (1/2)

    When the opportunity arose to spend 12 days in girl-mode away from home staying with a good close friend and attending a series of Pride events, it felt kind of scary yet kind of exciting.

  • Half Life of Glitter

    Glitter can look fantastic, but it has a few drawbacks. The most obvious one is that it gets everywhere and is almost impossible to get rid of. I’ve turned up to an office in boy-mode before only to discover (because someone told me!) that I’ve got tiny sparkly highlights on my face from glitter –…

  • Gender Wage Gap Thoughts

    The gap between earnings for men & women is a complex & tricky area. It’s difficult to compare like-for-like when the types of work are so skewed between the genders in the first place.

  • ♂ Guest Editor

    Today I was invited, rather surprised and bemused, to guest edit an item on Sophie’s blog.

  • A Few Days Away…

    ….in girl-mode. Taking the opportunity to visit a Pride Event in another country felt a little daring but… well, if you’re not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much space, right? Liquids and gels With the best will in the world, I cannot contemplate trying to take make-up through in hand-luggage. Which…

  • A Question for Men

    Have you ever complained about the time any woman has taken to get ready to go out? Have you ever felt frustrated by this time, or wondered how it could possibly take so long? If you’ve never tried it, then you simply have no idea. The expectations (by society, by partners, by everyone) to look…