When Lyndsey joined a dating app in 2021, she didn’t have high hopes. “I was a bit useless at these things,” she says. “I’d moved to Nottingham to work as a sociology and geography research fellow at Nottingham Trent University. After the lockdowns, I was keen to meet new people.” She soon matched with CJ, a journalist with “bright green hair and tattoos”.
The pair started chatting online that autumn. “We talked about pronouns very early on as we both identify as non-binary,” says CJ. “We went for a drink and she was really easy to talk to. It was nice as I’d experienced a string of disastrous dates before that.”
