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recent words 

OCT 2026

Visibly Unwell: Representations of Illness in the Archive

Curationist Foundation


26 SEP 2026

Turner Prize Review

Frieze


SEP 2026

Space Afrika Album Review

The Quietus


14 SEP 2026

Carmen Villian Album Review

The Quietus


JUL 2026

Roy Claire Potter Crosses the Airwaves

Frieze


19 FEB 2026

Tendrils: Ecopoetics of Community and Justice

Spiral House × Silver Press

 
4 FEB 2026 

The Prosthetic & the Posthuman 

ArtReview


15 JAN 2026 

Crip Scripts: Disordered Patterns and the Politics of Recognition

BlackFlash Magazine Issue 42.3


AUTUMN 2024

Ursula Le Guin’s dream-time

esse arts + opinions


23 JAN 2024

Through the Cracks: Dismantling Dreams, Disrupting Seams

SLEEK Magazine


12 JAN 2024

(To): M/other

SLEEK Magazine #79


4 OCT 2023

In My Mother’s Garden

MOTHER NATURE BURNS 


5 SEP 2023

This Aching Archive

SPORA PRESS 


8 AUG 2023

Anxiety Poem(s)

TERRA FIRMA MAGAZINE


14 JUN 2023

Ecologies of the Future: Sowing Worlds Beyond (the) Collapse

JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION


29 DEC 2022

A Sonic Storm: On Rieko Whitfield’s ‘Enter Regenesis’

SLEEK Magazine


16 AUG 2022

A Plurally-Determined and Sustainable Other-World: Omsk Social Club and Alexander Iezzi’s ‘Fucking Hardcore Self-Divinization Weekender’

SLEEK Magazine


14 JUL 2022

Hold them in love: notes on Every Ocean Hughes’ One Big Bag, end-of-life care & resisting a ‘slow death’ under neoliberal capitalism

AQNB


WINTER 2022

The Map IS the Territory: On Lucas LaRochelle’s Queering the Map

C Magazine

workshops

1 DEC 2026

Crip Scripts: Prose for Disabled Writers

Auto Italia


11 NOV 2025

Crip Scripts: Writing Chronic Illness & Narrative Disobedience

THE FEMINIST LIBRARY


21 + 28 JUNE & 5 JULY 2025

Grief Weaving Group

QUEERCIRCLE


9 – 30 OCT 2024

Writing out our Grief

QUEERCIRCLE & London Queer Death Café


5 AUG 2023

Word & Weft: Writing as water

The Common Press


10 JUN 2022

Run Deep, Run Wild

CASCO Art Institute


7 JUN 2022

Bending the River back into the City

Gemene Grond


11 MAY 2022

Word & Weft: Writing as water

Gemene Grond


28 SEP 2018    

Crit Night w/ Kat Benedict

The Drake Hotel


talks & performances

11 FEB 2026

Tendrils Book Launch

ICA London


20 SEP 2025

I Still Hold The Rock You Gave Me 

Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Festival


26 OCT 2024

Artist Talk w/ Jonathan Harvey 

STRATFORD EAST 


18 FEB 2024

Chips: A Queer Poetry Night 

HOT WHEELS LONDON


4 OCT 2023

Artist talk w/ Rieko Whitfield & Luca Eck

REFERENCE POINT


13 JUN 2023

Tuesday: Poetry Reading

ICA London


15 DEC 2022

Making your words count! Writing about culture in the age of digital media

ICA London


9 SEP 2021

The Breaks. On Mastery and Curation at the End of the World (Co-thinking group w/ Julietta Singh)

Young Creator’s Academy


8 AUG 2021

To be at Sea: Tales of Tentacularity

MAXIM GORKI THEATRE


16 APR 2020

Conciousness Conversations

GenderFail


15 SEP 2019
Eva Hesse: This Monster My Body
Good Life Garden


7 NOV 2018   

Writing in the Arts Roundtable

InterAccess 


residencies & projects

2026
Research Fellow
Curationist Foundation


2025 - ONGOING
Writer/Facilitator
Crip Scripts


2025 
Co-editor
UNFURL

2024 – ONGOING
London Queer Death Cafe
QUEERCIRCLE

MAY – JUN 2022

Water is what we make it 
Gemene Grond


JUL – OCT 2021

Young Creatives Academy

MAXIM GORKI THEATRE


APR – JUN 2020

Full Spectrum Fellowship

IMPAKT Centre for Media Culture


MAY – SEP 2019 
Research Fellow
Haus der Kulturen der Welt

SEP – OCT 2018

Dude, where’s my phallus?

Bunker 2 


MAY 2017

Façades

Bunker 2


APR 2017

Growing Sideways

Bunker 2