about me

I am a scholar-activist, abolitionist, and agitator based at The Love Tank CIC, where I’m a post-doctoral researcher on Medicine Without Doctors, a Wellcome-funded research programme. I previously led the community research arm of the UK’s first London-centric Transgender Needs Assessment (second of its kind nationwide), and was a postdoc on Doing Disability Futures, a British Academy-funded project exploring the lives of queer disabled migrants and people of colour. I hold a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from University College London (UCL), where I am now an Honorary Research Fellow.

research

My current research explores how carceral technologies are being lifted out of the prison industrial complex into our everydayness, often under the guise of protection and progress. I particularly look at how these ‘technologies of capture’ have been, and continue to be, deliberately crafted to target and erase trans and non-binary people, and in turn are weaponised to govern and discipline the ‘deviant’ trans body. In tandem, the research platforms how we might begin to unlearn, disrupt, and disassemble carceral technologies, and in turn, devise our own technologies of liberation and empowerment.

My research is grounded in radical kindness and the abolitionist values of dismantle, change, build. That is, how we can create models today that can represent how we want to live tomorrow, and provide practical strategies for liberation that allow us all to believe that things can be different. Or rather, how we might work together to survive the present, supporting those that are most vulnerable now, whilst also keeping our eyes on the future.

Rhyme

Alongside, I am a rhyme-writer and associate artist at Anthoplay Theatre. My spoken word focuses on radical trans care, anger ⇌ joy, surviving the psychiatric industrial complex, existing and resisting in a ‘disruptive’ body, and how totally f**ked the system is. Most recently I performed at Clapham Fringe Festival, ‘Queer Talk Live!’, Anthoplay Theatres’ ‘Anthrotalks’, Poetry LGBT, and Edinburgh Love Hub. If you wanna hear my words then check the spoken word page and/or give me a follow me on Instagram.

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Assigned scrap rascal at birth. My pronouns are he/they 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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