Publications

A curated display in a library gallery of materials from the library's collections pertaining to gender crossing.

Strange Characters: Gender Transgression 1860s–1930s, Amaze Gallery, State Library of NSW, 2023.

History

  • Robin Eames, Jordan Evans, Samantha Kohl Grey, David T. Roth, Lucinda Stormont-Sainsbury, Effie Karageorgos, ‘Picturing Medical Histories: “Ways of Seeing” the Historical Medical Subject’, Health and History 25, no. 2 (2023): 55–86. Available here or here (open access).
  • ‘Strange Characters: Gender Transgression 1860s–1930s’, a commissioned exhibit for World Pride at the State Library of NSW, on show in the Amaze Gallery from February to July 2023.
  • ‘Trans people aren’t new, and neither is their oppression: a history of gender crossing in 19th c Australia.’ The Conversation, March 22, 2023. You can read it here.
  • Robin Eames, ‘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).
  • 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.
  • Interview on Queer View Mirror podcast, with Sam Elkin, Gemma Cafarella and Hamish McLachlan. You can listen to it here.

Poetry

  • PRINCIPLES FOR VICTIMS AND OTHERS in Red Room Poetry’s AUTHOR UNKNOWN project, February 2024. You can read it here, and its partner poem (by David Stavanger) here.
  • VOCALISATIONS and SONG OF THE BIPED in Bramble #2, 2024. You can read the issue here, or read and listen to my poems here.
  • GHOSTS IN THE SMOKING AREA, in Sunder #1, July 2023. You can read and listen to it here.
  • QUESTING BEAST, cowritten with with Michèle Saint-Yves, and COALESCENT, with Beau Windon, Andy Jackson, Michèle Saint-Yves and Ruby Hillsmith, in Rabbit #37, COLLABORATIONS, January 2023. You can buy the issue here.
  • 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. You can read it here, and buy the book here.
  • 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 (with image descriptions).
  • 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 read them here, and buy the issue 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.
  • REQUIEM FOR MEDUSA, published in Hermes, October 2018. 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.
  • 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

  • ‘In a Crip Time and Place’, Runway Journal, issue 47, 2023. You can read and listen to it here.
  • ‘Spaces of Possibility’, an essay for the sensorial exhibition catalogue, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 2023. You can read it here.
  • ‘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 read it here, or buy it here.
  • ‘Love brings grief, and grief returns to love’, for a Red Room/Studio A collaboration, 2020. You can read it here.
  • ‘Crip intimacy and digital detritus’, a multimedia collaboration with Quin Eli for the Digital Writers Festival, 2019. Archived 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

  • Queer as in Crip, a spoken word installation at the Art Gallery of NSW for Queer Art After Hours, with Kerri Shying, Sam Petersen, and Hanna Cormick, curated by Riana Head-Toussaint. February 2024.
  • 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.

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