about me
I am a scholar-activist, abolitionist, rhyme writer, and skate rat based at The Love Tank CIC.
research
My current research explores how carceral technologies are spilling 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 are weaponised as a means to govern and discipline the ‘deviant’ Trans body. In tandem, the research platforms how we might begin to unlearn, disrupt, and disassemble carceral technology, and in turn, devise our own technologies of liberation and empowerment.
My research is firmly embedded 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.
Rage
Alongside, I am an active member of the UK block of ‘No Tech for Apartheid’, where I am co-steward of the research working group. ‘No Tech for Apartheid’ is a tech worker direct action movement that is actively fighting for Amazon and Google to stop funding the settler colonial state of Israel and the genocide of the Palestinian people. We understand that such corporations can only exist through the labour of tech workers, and as such we have the power to actively withhold this labour, as well as engage in tech activism so as to shake big tech at its foundation.
Rhyme
Finally, 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 ‘deviant’ body, and how totally f**ked the system is. Most recently I performed at Clapham Fringe Festival, ‘Queer Talk Live!’, Anthoplay Theatres’ ‘Anthrotalks’, and Poetry LGBT. 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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