Publications

History

  • ‘Strange Characters: Gender Transgression 1860s-1930s’, a commissioned exhibit for Pride (R)Evolution at the State Library of NSW, currently on show in the Amaze Gallery  until 9 July 2023.
  • Crossing Time: Australia’s Transgender History. ABC Radio segment, 2023, interviewed by Sam Elkin and Gemma Cafarella. You can listen to it here or read the write-up here.
  • Eames, Robin. ‘Problem bodies and queer legacies: Rethinking approaches to trans history in the case of Harry Crawford, Sydney, 1920’. Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 25 (Nov 2019): 50-62. Available here or here (open access).

Poetry

  • TRANS BROKEN ARM SYNDROME, in Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia, edited by Sam Elkin, Alex Gallagher, Bobuq Sayed and Yves Rees, 2022.
  • EOS, published in Cordite #104: KIN, February 2022. You can read it here.
  • GOOD CRIPS GO TO HEAVEN BUT GET STUCK AT THE STAIRWAY, a digital poetry/photography zine for Red Dirt Poetry Fest, 2020. You can read it here.
  • ORACLE and THE DISABLED WARRIOR EMERGES FROM DARKNESS, published in Australian Poetry Journal, vol. 9.2, DIS─, January 2020. The latter poem was also shortlisted for the 2018 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. You can buy it here.
  • APOCALYPSE GLAM, published in A Whore’s Manifesto, September 2019. You can buy it here, and read it here.
  • IS THIS A GENDER?, published in Ibis House, June 2019. You can read it here.
  • SPARE KEYS, published in Southerly 78, no. 3, VIOLENCE, May 2019. You can buy it here.
  • ANABASIS, published in a special online disability issue of Westerly, May 2019. You can read it here.
  • PROGNOSIS, CIRCE’S POTIONS, CRIP MYTHIC, LAST WILL AND LAMENT, AMAZONS, and GENDER OF THE NIGHT, published in Cordite #91, MONSTER, May 2019. You can read them here.
  • HEART HEAL THYSELF, published in Meanjin, December 2018. You can read it here.
  • LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING, published in Voiceworks #113, FLARE, December 2018. You can buy it here, and read and listen to it here.
  • THERE ARE ONLY 16 GENDERS, published in Cordite #88, TRANSQUEER, November 2018. You can read it here.
  • HYMN TO THE STRAINING ONES, published in Scum, October 2018. You can read it here.
  • REQUIEM FOR MEDUSA, published in Hermes, October 2018, judges’ choice winner in the “word” category of the USU Creative Awards. You can read and listen to it here.
  • THE BODY ARGONAUTICA, published in Uncanny Magazine‘s Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, September 2018. You can read it here, or buy it here.
  • ἩΜΙΚΡΑΝΊΑ (HĒMIKRANÍA), published in Breath & Shadow, July 2018. You can read it here.
  • ON THE MOVEMENT OF BODIES, OR, THE TRANSGENDER CELESTIAL, published in Voiceworks #111, RIFF, May 2018. You can read it here, or buy it here.
  • LOVECRY/BATTLESONG, published in Ibis House, 1 March 2018, reprinted in the first disability edition of Honi Soit, September 2018. You can read it here.
  • CURB CUT CARTOGRAPHY, published in Cordite #84, SUBURBIA, February 2018. You can read it here.

Fiction

  • THE MOON UNDER WATER, published in Overland, December 2018. You can read it here.
  • GREENTEETH, published in Luna Station Quarterly, 2015. You can read it here.

Nonfiction

  • “Et Lux: also, light”, in Growing Up Disabled in Australia, edited by Carly Findlay, 2021.
  • “With events and venues pivoting to online experiences during the pandemic, what can we learn to make more experiences accessible in the future?”, Broadsheet, 2021. You can read it here.
  • “Disabled otherworlds”, an essay for the Overlapping Magisteria exhibition catalogue, accompanying Sam Petersen’s installation I’m still feeling it, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2020. You can buy it here.
  • “Love brings grief, and grief returns to love”, for a Red Room/Studio A collaboration, 2020. You can read it here.
  • “Finding crip lit community”, a blog post for the Emerging Writer’s Festival, June 2019. You can read it here.
  • “Defining disability poetics”, a review of Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, published in Deaf Poets Society, September 2018. You can read it here.
  • “Hell on wheels”, published in Honi Soit, October 2017. You can read it here.
  • “The nine lives of the quadrangle jacaranda”, published in Honi Soit, August 2017. You can read it here.

Art

  • CRIP FEMME ON FIRE UNDER THE SUPER BLUE BLOOD MOON, photo series, in the Sydney Femme Guild’s Mardi Gras exhibition 40 Years of Femme at the Burdekin Hotel, 2018.
  • CAPITALISM IS BURNING THE WORLD BUT LOVE BURNS BRIGHTER AND MORE BEAUTIFULLY, digital photocollage, 1mx1m, exhibited in Creative Conversations at the Newtown Festival, as part of a 2017 artist’s residency with the Annandale Creative Arts Centre.
  • EURYDICE LOOKS BACK, photo series, in the Sydney Femme Guild’s Mardi Gras exhibition Fierce Femme at the Burdekin Hotel, 2017.
  • You can see more of my artistic work here.

Videos