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'My Body is Not the Enemy' - photo by me
Rx: Medicine from the Cripothecary - an audio tapestry of exhausted LGBTQIA+ voices
Listen: I have some chronically exhausted audio literature for you, laid carefully on a sound bed of breath: click here with headphones on for the ASMR head tingles.
It's part of the Disbelief Disregard AHRC-funded research project at University of Liverpool which includes new writing and art made by people with energy-limiting conditions (with particular focus on Muslim women and people of marginalised genders - some of those who are often ignored in medical research), imagining what care could look like if it was what we needed. It has truly been an honour being part of this. All my hats off to the incredible all-disabled research team who made it possible.
You can find all the pieces we made with people with energy-limiting illnesses here - scroll down to our names. Comix, zines, essays and more by some of the smartest artists I know working in this area: khairani barokka (okka), Louise Kenward, Khisra Ahmed and Julian Gray.
Listen: I have some chronically exhausted audio literature for you, laid carefully on a sound bed of breath: click here with headphones on for the ASMR head tingles.
It's part of the Disbelief Disregard AHRC-funded research project at University of Liverpool which includes new writing and art made by people with energy-limiting conditions (with particular focus on Muslim women and people of marginalised genders - some of those who are often ignored in medical research), imagining what care could look like if it was what we needed. It has truly been an honour being part of this. All my hats off to the incredible all-disabled research team who made it possible.
You can find all the pieces we made with people with energy-limiting illnesses here - scroll down to our names. Comix, zines, essays and more by some of the smartest artists I know working in this area: khairani barokka (okka), Louise Kenward, Khisra Ahmed and Julian Gray.
Dreaming in Green - creative essays in response to the climate crisis
a new eBook from Cultureword
**UPDATE: I am currently working on an audio version of this essay so if that's easier for you to access, stay with me - I'll have it for you soon.**
My new essay - on the kinds of disabled eco-wisdom and learning that everyone needs right now. This came straight from the heart, with huge influence from many writers and thinkers and activitsts and teachers. An ecosystem of disabled knowledge and interconnected care. A poem that is a thought that is an essay that is an invitation.
I am incredibly honoured to have this sit alongside powerful work by writers I have long admired and learned from; I especially love Maya Chowdhry's poetic exploration of sea and bone, border and memory and carbon. Holding so much in such a compact space. And John Siddique's decolonisation of self and nature. Exactly the kinds of things that I look to for bearing in this late capitalist confusion of destruction.
Read it free, here.
about
I'm a UK-based writer and one third of the Skear Zines editorial trio. I've performed at many festivals and live events across the UK and beyond, solo and in collaboration with other writers, musicians and visual/digital artists. My stories have featured on BBC Radio 4 and in Short Fiction Journal, among other places, with poetry appearing in numerous anthologies and magazines. My collection of short stories about the messy overlap of aid work and war (Jebel Marra, Comma Press 2015) was described by the Guardian as 'muscular', and 'exceptional' by the Irish Times. My novella exploring Manchester's housing crisis will be out with Comma Press in 2024, supported by the Society of Authors. I recently created and edited the TransBareAll anthology of trans writers and artists, as well as the accompanying podcast of the same name. My zine Knuckle Pushups is out now.
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