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I write character-driven fiction about gender, power, belonging, and the women who build the rooms other people survive in.

I’m not formally published in the traditional sense, and I’ve had AI as a drafting partner, but I’ve been working seriously on a long fiction project about gender, belonging, and women’s authority and agency.

I’m still learning, but I care about the craft.

Purpose

I wrote Celeste’s Girl because I’m tired of two lies:

  • that womanhood is a costume, and
  • that trans-women are a threat rather than an ally

I know, intimately, what male privilege feels like from the inside—and what it means to step away from it. No one abandons that invisible armour for “skirts and perfume.” They do it for survival, for coherence, for the simple, radical relief of finally being able to recognise themselves in the mirror and in their own life.

This story isn’t interested in spectacle.

It’s interested in infrastructure: in the women who quietly build worlds where other women can breathe. Wardrobe is a deliberate answer to the patriarchy’s workshops and back rooms. It’s a place where competence is normal, where care is policy, and where a trans girl isn’t a punchline or a fetish object or a theory—she’s a colleague, a daughter, a wife, one of the women.

I wanted to show what happens when a former “beneficiary” of patriarchy walks into a women-led space and says, without quite knowing it yet, I belong with you. What does it cost her? What does it cost them? What do they gain together that none of them could have had alone?

Celeste’s Girl is my love letter to women’s work, to chosen family, and to the fierce, unglamorous kind of solidarity that stands in front of loading bays and board tables and says:

“No. Not here. Not to her.”

It’s also a quiet insistence that trans women are not an enemy camp, but some of the keenest, most motivated allies women will ever have in dismantling the structures that harm us all.