Essays

2022     

drip(feed), ‘In The Garden of Earthly Delights’

2021        

Meanjin, ‘The Boulder’

Overland, ‘Why are the cops at Pride?

2020

Archer, ‘at home & incredibly online

Meanjin, ‘Sitting outside the sanctuary

Overland, ‘Housing is a right, homelessness is a weapon

2019        

Meanjin, ‘Queerphobia is About Power

Overland, ‘Let’s abolish the Border Force and Home Affairs

Meanjin, ‘Difference and the Politics of Fear

2018        

Archer, ‘Choosing marriage

Articles

2021        

Junkee, How The New Online Safety Bill Targets Queer People

Junkee, Budget 2021: Damage Control For A Dysfunctional Government

The Age, Let’s drop the term ‘patient zero’, for history’s sake

Junkee, The Government Continues To Punish People On JobSeeker

Junkee, US Capitol Riots Should Be A Wake-Up Call To Australia

2020        

Junkee, The Victorian Government Is Forcing People Into Homelessness

Junkee, The Problem With Policing Our Way Out Of A Pandemic

Junkee, The Budget Screws Over Everyone Except The Rich

Junkee, Landlords Even Bigger Monsters During COVID

Archer Magazine, ‘Intimacy and being alone in ‘The Adversary’

The Guardian, ‘Australia's landlords hold all the power’

Junkee, ‘Cops and corporations don’t care about queer people

Pedestrian, ‘Changes on poppers unfairly target queer community

Junkee, ‘The government knows what porn you like

2019        

Junkee, ‘Trans people are the Australian’s new targets

The Guardian, ‘Australia’s decision not to ban poppers is a win but stigma remains

Junkee, ‘My long and painfully awkward quest to be legal poppers

Star Observer, ‘What is HTLV-1?

New Matilda, ‘Protecting a Predator

Eureka Street, ‘Government hypocrisy on fascism

2018       

New Matilda, ‘Want To Know Why The Far-Right Is Rising? Look To Canberra

Eureka Street, ‘Alt-right wolves in sheep's clothing

Star Observer, ‘We need a review of faith-based discrimination

ABC News, ‘A year after the postal vote, we're still wounded’

Eureka Street, ‘Religious freedom is not a zero-sum game

The Guardian, Australia's ban on poppers is an attack on gay and bisexual men

The Mandarin,Privacy concerns on My Health Record need to be addressed

Crikey, FOI reveals that health agencies ignored My Health Record concerns

Star Observer,Once You’re on the System You’re on there for Good

ABC News, Not all men are violent but all men can help prevent violence

Star Observer,Why My Health Record lets down minorities

Poetry

2023      

Westerly, ‘fitzroy pool 2022 (dir. luca guadagnino)’

2022      

Australian Poetry Anthology, ‘alien’

2021       

Going Down Swinging, ‘alien’

2020       

Going Down Swinging, ‘you can never be wrong

2019        

Cordite, ‘reply

Academic Writing

2021       

Sydney Corpus Lab, ‘Transgender people in the Australian press: “Bombarded by outright harassment”

2020       

International Journal of Drug Policy, ‘Prevalence, frequency, and motivations for alkyl nitrite use among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Australia

2018     

Contemporary Political Theory, ‘The democratic theory of Hans-Georg Gadamer

Comment

2021

Crikey, 'News Corp covers trans issues more than any other media outlet

The Guardian, 'Starvation payments': jobseeker recipients say new rate puts a life out of reach

2020        

Domain, ‘Experts decry ‘grotesque’ $688m construction stimulus as renters snubbed again

Junkee, ‘Landlords getting tenants to prove how much they spend on food and entertainment

Domain, ‘Agencies asking for leave and entertainment expenditure labelled ‘intrusive’

Syrup, ‘How young Australians are dealing with job loss under coronavirus lockdowns

10 Daily, ‘ANZ Mardi Gras Ad 'Upsetting'  LGBTIQ Australians Say

Pink Advocate, ‘Melbourne activists supporting First Nations people

Al Jazeera US, ‘Scott Morrison: The 'daggy dad' burned by Australia's fire crisis

2019        

ABC Life, Taylor Swift an LGBTQI ally or not?

ABC Life, ‘Can fashion labels ever be ethical, or are they pulling the wool over our eyes?

The Guardian, ‘My Health Record glitch generating thousands of internal files

Star Observer, ‘Members of queer community to march in Invasion Day Rally

2018       

Star Observer, ‘It’s about time we support others in their fights against injustice

Featured In

2021   

Junkee, Why Are Liberal Senators Suddenly Obsessed With What ABC Staff Like On Twitter?

Pedestrian, People Are Eviscerating A Victorian Landlords’ Group For Its Lockdown Take

Pedestrian, ‘Deputy PM on $400k Just Told Victorians A Week Without Pay Is ‘Not A Long Time’’

Junkee,Thousands Have Rallied Across Australia In Solidarity with Palestinians This Weekend

The New Daily, ‘The worst thing about that consent video? It’s believable our government made it

Junkee,The Government Tried Teaching Students About Consent With A Milkshake Video

iTWire, News Corporation papers fooled by bogus petition about fairy bread

Junkee,Vietnam War-Themed Bar Issues A “Sorry If You’re Offended” Apology

Junkee,Malcolm Turnbull Shut Down after Claiming Credit for Gay Marraige

2020       

Junkee, 12 Of The Best Stories We Published On Junkee This Year’

Junkee, ‘Josh Frydenberg only pretends to care about mental health

5Why, All the ways the federal budget hurts vulnerable people

Junkee, Peter Dutton is lecturing someone on compassion

5Why,R U OK? Day Is Tokenistic And Meaningless

The New Daily, Agents push back against calls to block reductions

Junkee, ‘Morrison dodging responsibility for covid-19 aged care deaths’

Junkee, ‘What can the HIV epidemic tell us about covid-19’

Junkee, Anthony Albanese thinks people got paid too much on JobKeeper

5Why, ‘Why you should care about the public housing tower lockdown’

Junkee, Casual workers can’t afford to isolate and it's a problem

Junkee, If masks are mandatory they should be free

Junkee, Public housing tenants given expired food

Junkee, ‘Morrison says welfare is too generous’

5Why, ‘Morrison thinks slavery didn’t happen here

Junkee, ‘Thousands turned up for Black Lives Matter

Pedestrian, ‘The most powerful signs from Black Lives Matter protests

5Why, ‘#AboriginalLivesMatter is trending on Twitter

Pedestrian, HECS fees are set to double and people are furious

Junkee, ‘Labour knows it’s not enough to live on but doesn’t think JobSeeker should stay

MTV, ‘Shock jock Alan Jones announces he’s retiring from radio

Junkee, ‘Rentals still unaffordable even with JobSeeker payment doubling

Junkee, ‘Why you should think twice before dipping into your super during the pandemic

Junkee, ‘This peak medical body has shut down the Australian’s proposed inquiry into trans kids

Yahoo Finance, ‘The illegal question your agent might be asking you

Pedestrian, ‘Q&A called out for allowing ‘appalling’ multiculturalism question to be asked

Junkee, ‘The media is once again failing a female victim of domestic violence

Punkee, ‘Here’s what happened when I, a dainty woman, tried to eat a “man-sized” meal

Junkee, ‘The government reckons it has no duty of care to robot-debt victims

The Guardian, ‘How Australia's bushfires have left its citizens struggling for air

Junkee, ‘Australia just banned all travellers from China who aren’t citizens

Junkee, ‘The Australian just compared being trans to having coronavirus

2019       

ArtsHub, ‘Department of Arts axed in government power play

Junkee, ‘Sky News tried to drag Jacinda Arden and it backfired

SBS, ‘Scott Morrison believes trans teens are under pressure from 'identity politics'

The Guardian, How the Herald Sun turned on its own

Junkee, ‘Thousands march in support of Tamil family

Junkee, ‘The government wants to make it easier to humiliate LGBTIQ people

Junkee, ‘Popper’s won’t be banned but there’s a catch

SBS, ‘Sunrise apologises over 'dole bludger' Newstart segment

Junkee, ‘All the best reactions to Tony Abbott losing his seat

Junkee, ‘Kerri'-Anne Kennerley’s unhinged rant about ‘gender-confused’ kids

SBS, ‘Bolt continues to defend Pell in new blog

Junkee, ‘Bolt & Devine are defending Pell because of course they are

The Guardian, Why are men at Australian music festivals wearing the same shirt?

Junkee, ‘The best and most powerful signs from Invasion Day

2018        

SBS, ‘Trans Day of Remembrance commemorated across Australia

Junkee, ‘The government sacrificed its encryption bill so it didn’t have to help kids on Nauru

Junkee, ‘Cory Bernardi Has Recruited Lyle Shelton

Buzzfeed News, ‘Here's Everything You Need To Know About Why #AfricanGangs Is Trending