about me

I am a scholar-activist, abolitionist, and agitator based at The Love Tank CIC, where I’m a postdoctoral 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 transgender people in the UK face widespread medical negligence rooted in systemic knowledge gaps in healthcare, and how the increasing use of clinical AI across the medical industrial complex reinforces and widens these gaps. The work underlines how an overreliance on guesswork on the part of clinicians, in tandem with the consistent scapegoating of HRT as the primary source of health issues for trans people, results in carceral clinical algorithms shaped through rigid male/female binaries that structure data gaps and erase trans bodies from medical metrics altogether. The result is a devastating lack of understanding of trans bodies and their active erasure within healthcare settings.

In contrast, my work champions fugitive care and foregrounds how trans communities survive in, and exist outside of, the medical industrial complex, cultivating healthcare webs embedded in abolition, mutual aid, harm reduction, and lived experience, ultimately fostering liberatory healthcare models for all.

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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