Primarily, I work with stories and help other people work with their stories and the stories they want to make. On any given day, this means you can find me editing, mentoring, consulting, teaching, tracking, resource-gathering, writing, constellating, space-making, and co-creating.

At the heart of my work is the desire to make better worlds by telling better stories; meaning stories that are true, complex, felt, liberating, resourcing, loving and engaged in the work of deinsitutionalising bodies and knowledges. Currently, among other things, this looks like supporting individuals and groups to liberate their creative expression from institutionalising forms, co-hosting workshops on writing with non-monogamy, and co-creating work on witchcraft, feminism and academia.

Before I became a freelancer in 2019, I worked as a lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in English Literature. My research background is in contemporary English and American literature, LGBTQ+ literature, life-writing, creative non-fiction, contemporary popular culture, affect, feminist, queer and critical theory and I continue to make work and teach in these areas.

My experiences within academia, and in the leaving of it, motivate a lot of my current deinstitutionalisation work. As someone who worked in academic institutions for over fifteen years, I know from the inside how academic institutions can discipline, harm and constrict our sense of joy, creativity, worth, and our capacity for emergent and necessary thinking. I also know how they can be spaces for community, pleasured and generative learning, and for vital inquiry. I see an integral part of my role now as being to foster conversations about all kinds of institutions, to look them in the eye, to notice and track how they shape our bodies and perspectives and to wonder what other structures and spaces might make possible.