Into the Menschosphere: Vashti Media, 2026
“The problem with weakness is not its existence, but the presumption strength makes that weakness signifies a legitimate target.”
The hunger era: The Nation, 2026
“Last summer, I noticed that no one on my Instagram feed was eating.”
Why we keep falling for rules on how to live: The Guardian, 2026
“The thing in me that watches these videos – something in millions of us, judging by the engagement on these posts – does actually desire some guidance on how to look, live, be.”
No action: The Baffler, 2025
“Accusations of terrorism are automatically serious because our capacity for terror is intrinsic.”
Mosley’s shadow: Tribune, 2025
“Actions with drastic implications for people’s survival are commonplace in our politics.”
The revolt of the housewives: Tribune, 2024
“‘When bread is costly,’ Thompson advises, ‘the poor do not go over to cake.’”
The Dunnes Stores Strike was a lesson in solidarity: Tribune, 2024
“The story of the Dunnes Stores strike, when it’s told, often begins on 19 July 1984, with a woman approaching a supermarket till on Dublin’s Henry Street.”
“There was a whole world we were fighting for”: LGSM turns 40: Tribune, 2024
“Dai Donovan still lives in the house on whose living room floor LGSM activists slept forty years ago.”
Life after loving a Met Police spy: Tribune, 2022
“Every minute they spent together was being paid for by the state.”
The government has abandoned carers during Covid-19: Novara Media, 2020
“It’ll take more than a crisis grant to get carers justice.”
Why sex workers need two phones: Vice, 2020
“Like other industries, the machinations of sex work are increasingly online – a trend vastly accelerated by Covid.”
The Welsh village taking on the armed forces: Novara Media, 2020
“Llanbedr, a village in rural northwest Wales, is known for its neolithic standing stones, its bronze age hut circles and its Grade II-listed church. This year, it’s also become a political battlefield.”
Should we keep the Elgin Marbles?: i, 2020
“Rethinking Relationships looks beyond what JC Niala calls ‘the simple binary of retain versus repatriate’.”
Will antinatalism become the new normal?: Huck, 2020
“In February, a man in India brought a lawsuit against his parents for having birthed him.”
In defence of chicken soup: Open Democracy, 2019
“There were no implications for the Amazon rainforest when my great-grandmother was throwing meal out to the birds in the garden.”
Face your taste: private canons and public culture: Rife, 2018
“What we understand now as cultural canon started out somewhere as the personal taste of individuals.”
Essays, opinion, and features
Fiction
Try-Hard: Letter Review, 2023
“If there’s one thing I’ve always hated, it’s laziness.”
The Client: Longlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Award, 2023
“The light fixture wasn’t even nice.”
Space: Third place in the Cambridge Flash Fiction Prize, 2020
“Space started out as a bit of fun.”
Orthodontics: Flash Flood, 2020
“You don’t smell things when you’re dreaming.”
Other
Era Magazine: Creator and editor, 2020-21
Heart of the Nation: Researcher, 2020