about me

I’m a scholar-activist, abolitionist, and agitator based at The Love Tank CIC, where I’m a Postdoctoral Research Fellow 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 Postdoctoral Researcher 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 trans communities bite back against hostile healthcare systems, engaging in fugitivity to access, adapt, and evolve healthcare on our own terms. I am particularly interested in DIY HRT and the care webs trans communities cultivate beyond medical gatekeeping, systemic abandonment, and colonial notions of health. Drawing on Black trans feminism, abolition, harm reduction, and living experience, my work examines the deep community epistemologies that emerge within these healthcare ecologies: how knowledge is practised, shared, and sustained beyond the watchful eyes of the medical-industrial complex and the state.

Central to this work is an interest in fugitive care and mutual aid as practices of imagination, resistance, and possibilities for building liberatory models of healthcare. My research celebrates the ways trans communities care for one another while holding firmly that no one should have to navigate carceral healthcare alone, or be pushed (as opposed to actively choose) to DIY in the first place.

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 medical industrial complex, existing and resisting in a ‘disruptive’ body, and how totally fucked 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 @kylo.pdf

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

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