Shot from below looking into the sky, through a hole we see a complex network of entangled bamboo growing together

The Wisdom of No Escape

NOTE: I wrote this for a guest issue of a pretty well known international fashion/alternative magazine in 2023. A good friend who was asked, nay, solicited, to write an article by them, tapped me to...

Podcasts and Poetry

So, belatedly I realised I hadn’t mentioned that my Episode on the The End of Tourism Podcast had gone live, so — tada! Entitled We Will Dance With Stillness, Chris and I discuss...

On Howling and Dread

Grief is not bad, nor is the mourning wail something that should be proscribed. The very fact that we are encouraged to grieve, but only to a “socially acceptable” level, lest we...

The Nest of Snakes

So:What if I told youThat the blind Might sense moreThan the sharpestEyes of Eagles? The deaf moreThan the keenestEar – Infinite Angels TopplingFrom their pins – dropping likeA cacophony...

(Dis)abling Futures Recording

Here is the talk I did at the WFSF conference with Loes Damhof and Martin Calnan in October 2023. In it, we explore the notion of disability as morally neutral, and what a shift in our views about...

On Purity

The precise balances in the universe are not products of clarity or distinctnesses but emergent qualities of mess, fuzz, sloppiness, blurring, complexity, and obscurity. Thick and dark, a gleaming...