Joining journalist Lenny Ann Low and photographer Pip Farquharson (who Cady reckons took World Pride's best photo), Cady and Amanda sat down to talk about how they met and the nature of love.

As 50,000 people walked over the Sydney Harbor Bridge for World Pride 2023, Cady's debut memoir The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody hit #1 in the Amazon Kindle store for LGBTQIA+ memoirs.

Cady said of the achievement:

"Thank you so much everybody for getting the word out about the sale!!! Look at me, jostling against a titan like Miriam Margolyes, 9 months after release! You did this!!! Thank you!"

A Walking Fish Production from writer/director Naomi Ball.

Charlie (pronouns he/they) is a 15-year-old transgender teen who also has an autism diagnosis. Research shows that people on the spectrum are more likely to be trans or gender diverse, but little is known about why.

Who I Am follows Charlie’s social transition, with a realistic portrayal of the challenges faced when coming out to family, making friends, accessing healthcare, and learning self-love. The story is told through observational moments and Charlie’s own animated characters, The Fallens, coming to life. His mum and two younger siblings, also on the spectrum, act as important supporting guides into this vibrant family world.

Thinking critically about the big ideas that impact our everyday.

Join our panel, moderated by journalist and author Jason Om joined by Photographer William Yang, writer/artist Fiona Kelly McGregor and author/producer Cadance "Cady" Bell, as we reflect on and celebrate the rich life of Sydney’s Queer community during Sydney Worldpride.

Following the blazing success of Melbourne's high street activation earlier this month, Aesop is giving away The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody for FREE in their Sydney store until March 1, 2023.

Celebrating LGBTQIA+ communities and artists, the initiative doesn't require a purchase - anyone can walk in without a buck, and walk out with a book.

Per the podcast's page:

Aunty Vesna, host of Sydney live music platform Queer As Fvck and front-human of Sydney's queer party band Gaia Rising, sits down with some of Australia's incredible queer/gender diverse artists, characters and activists to discuss the intersection of queer identity and spirituality.

This month Aunty and Sterling the Bass Lord chat with a truly stunning expression of consciousness named Cadance Bell for a inspiring and joyful discussion about her amazing book "The All Of It-A Bogan Rhapsody", queer identity and the supreme oneness of existence.

Cady joins host Alex for ABC Radio National's special roundtable celebrating World Pride 2023.

Loooong news

Perth was the place to be in the final week of November 22. For Cady & Amanda, it meant arriving to a fresh murder at a hotel (really!) and then catching Covid 3 days later.

But that didn't stop them having a wild hootenany of a time with Choon and the gang at Perth Pride W.A.

Cadance Bell discusses why her gender transition is the best financial decision she ever made in September 2022's edition Money Magazine Australia.

She discusses the financing of her increasingly bigly hijinx and shenanigans and her first experience of money as a kid (hint: there were Ninja Turtles). Available now!

In an exclusive piece for The Big Issue, Cadance Bell's new short "A Beer for his Ghost" is available in issue #667 of The Big Issue - the magazine which helps people help themselves.

Cady said she was delighted to work with the magazine for a special piece which explored a concept she called "phantom masculinity".

Jean Hailles for Women's Health announced Cadance Bell the first transgender person to become a champion of Women's Health Week. Cadance said: "My hope after a really turbulent few years is that we all remember how to care for ourselves again, so that compassion can continue to spread".

Other champions include Tara Moss, Melissa Doyle and Ita Buttrose.

A Walking Fish Production from writer/director Naomi Ball.

Charlie (pronouns he/they) is a 15-year-old transgender teen who also has an autism diagnosis. Research shows that people on the spectrum are more likely to be trans or gender diverse, but little is known about why.

Who I Am follows Charlie’s social transition, with a realistic portrayal of the challenges faced when coming out to family, making friends, accessing healthcare, and learning self-love. The story is told through observational moments and Charlie’s own animated characters, The Fallens, coming to life. His mum and two younger siblings, also on the spectrum, act as important supporting guides into this vibrant family world.

Announcing her next literary project, Letters to Our Robot Son will be available on Amazon's Audible as an Audible Original; FREE for subscribers.

Fifteen years in development, the novel follows a robot and its kitten as they travel a post-human Australia.

A panellist for session "Transcribe", Cadance discussed trans representation in the media and the arts.

This month I’ve had the honour of being the Artist in Residence at Mt Wilson in the Blue Mountains, where I’ve worked on my second book: Letters to Our Robot Son.

Beautiful doesn’t capture this place. Nestled on the peak of a dormant volcano, Mt Wilson is lush and gorgeous, a sub-tropical paradise which feels like ascending into Narnia. Baz Luhrmann shot The Great Gatsby here, and like Nick Carraway in that epic, Amanda and I have been staying in a cute cottage surrounded by gorgeous gardens and heritage homes, while I work from the nearby studio, a converted schoolhouse.

That I’m sharing so much in common with Old Sport has felt like a waking dream. The people I’ve met here are friends for life, and I am touched by their generosity and kindness.

You will undoubtedly see Mt Wilson in my upcoming work; this old volcano and its people have become a part of me now.

Cadance Bell will now be represented by Pippa Masson at Australia’s oldest and most prestigious literary agency, Curtis Brown.

Founded in 1967, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and London and affiliating with agencies in New York, Curtis Brown represent some of Australia’s best literary talent including Liane Moriarty, Jane Harper, Magda Szubanski, Mick Elliot, Tom Keneally, Andy Griffiths and Markus Zusak.

Cady said: “I’m so pumped to be with Curtis Brown. Seriously coolghetti beans! Five stars! A browse through their client list reveals some of my favourite authors; I devour their books the way I demolish freerange burritos, the ones which stray from the herd. I am so honoured that Curtis Brown are representing my shenanigans”.

The grant helps Cadance employ media strategists Media Mentors Australia to prepare for an intense publicity schedule for her memoir The All of It: A Bogan Rhapsody.

With over 90% of News Limited media covering trans people being negative, it's all the more important to be media ready.

Cadance Bell performed at the Sydney Opera House on the 29th of November 2020 as part of Queerstories for the Antidote festival. Cadance is performing “A Tale of Two Kitties” based on a chapter from her upcoming memoir.

Other speakers of the evening include Leonard Mickelo, dancer & performer in the stage adaptations of Priscilla Queen of the Desert and The Sapphires, Sarah Tiong, Masterchef favourite and author of Sweet, Savory, Spicy, Liv Hewson, star of Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet and Back in Very Small Business and Adrian Russell Wills, director of iconic Australian series including Redfern Now.

Queerstories is a national LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by Maeve Marsden, with live events around the country, a book and an award-winning podcast.

I forgot how to cry as a man. Laying in an economy box at the end of the funeral home was my departed grandmother. Flowers my mum had chosen hung from a borrowed vase. I sat with my family, numb. I knew I should feel something about her death, but I was empty.

I wanted to cry. I knew I should, but I couldn’t. I hadn’t cried in years. At that point, I barely felt anything, and it seemed like a betrayal of my grandmother’s love. But I was as dead inside my male body as she was inside the box.

A decade later, I’m a transgender woman. Thanks to hormone replacement therapy – or HRT – I feel again. There is a lot said about the obvious changes from HRT. The changes to secondary sex characteristics – skin, hair, fat and breasts. There is too much said about primary sex characteristics – that is, genitals. But for me, the real value of HRT is existential. It’s putting the right fuel in your engine, like filling up with unleaded instead of diesel at the pump.

The Rainbow Passage – the new documentary film written and directed by Cadance Bell premiered to a sold out crowd at QueerScreen’s Sydney Mardis Gras Film Festival on February 17 2020.

The film was then available for 12 months on TenPlay.

The Rainbow Passage was commissioned by Network Ten and Screen Australia as part of the Out Here initiative. It is an intimate documentary that charts the love story of Cadance and Amanda as they embark on their gender affirmation adventure. Along with their bestie Hannah, they build a life and community of LGBTIQA+ friends together in regional Australia.