Newsletter
The Importance of Writing Queer Joy
Queer joy is more important than ever.
Stuff.co.nz are back at it again, Krispy Kreme
After a few years of better-than-it-was reporting around rainbow issues, Stuff (and the Southland Times) are back at it again today with poor, unethical, and irresponsible reporting about trans folks.
Speaking Engagements
Pecha Kucha: Why I Stopped Fucking with Gender
when people think of ‘transition’ it’s usually in binary terms, and it’s usually thought of as ‘complete’. most importantly it’s thought of as the only way. but that’s not the complete trans experience. a lot of people do most of those things and a lot do some and some do none at all.
Essays
weaponised abjection & queer identity / visibility / experience
If being abject is distant, is other, is not something normative society wishes to face, then weaponising that abjection, emphasising it and making it impossible to ignore, is a radical act.
Essays
A Cult of Representation: Ignoring Harmful Ideologies in Favour of Queer Rep
Perhaps what we need is a new L Word; one filled so thoroughly with minority representations that we no longer are the minority; one that does not utilise our representations to justify harmful normative ideals.
Essays
"Beautiful and Lofty Things": Queer Appeals to Power & Turn of the Century Sexology
“How could it be unhealthy, that which makes a man happy and inspires in him beautiful and lofty things! His only misfortune is that social barriers and penal codes stand in the way of ‘naturally’ expressing his drive. This would be a great hardship.”
Essays
Para-: A Contemporary Working of Parasexuality
Contemporary workings of parasexuality describe specific kinds of relationships between majority groups and marginalised groups or people; relationships where structural power imbalances are at work.
Essays
Interview with Alex Metcalf-Wilson on Para-
I got an email from Alex Mitcalfe Wilson about a piece he’s writing as part of Artspace’s critical texts series on W e l c o m e.. The following is my response, containing his questions. The piece is in reference to the essay Para- and the accompanying sculpture.