Slate-os and sow-bugs and wood-pigs, oh my | September 2021 |
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blog post describing the interim results of our survey on names for terrestrial isopods and exploring the stories behind a few of the names we've found | |
Dialect loss as ecological loss | August 2021 |
a piece thinking about how misconceptions and miscommunications in academic-public discourse about dialects, and how a good parallel for the reality of dialects in the modern world can be found in the ecological crisis | |
Seeing desire through a clear glass | February 2021 |
a piece of personal writing on the movie Carol and the way different kinds of desires can be confused and interact | |
Perhap's we're wrong about the history of the word queer | January 2020 |
originally a talk delivered at the Cambridge Junction, this piece thinks about the history of the word 'queer' and how that history shapes our self-conception as a community | |
How can universities support trans students and staff? | October 2019 |
blogpost for WonkHE written with Emrys Travis | |
Afterword: on inference | August 2019 |
originally the afterword to my chapbook after the great death, this piece thinks about (and performs) the difficulty in capturing meaning across deep gulfs of time | |
On testing for trans brains | May 2018 |
short piece thinking about the research being done looking for neurological correlates of gender and/or trans identity | |
Response to Hadley Freeman's piece on Trans visibility | March 2018 |
blogpost on medium, responding to Freeman's Guardian article on TDoV 2018 | |
Diversity and the future of the college | March 2018 |
talk on International Women's Day for the Joyce Frankland Society at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge | |
What are we doing about trans women dying in our prisons? | June 2017 |
article published in GetReal magazine | |
If gender is a spectrum, isn't everyone genderqueer? | April 2016 |
article published in GetReal magazine |