selected essays

Wangaratta (2017, published in Reading Victoria)
Savegames (2018, published in Aftermath: Explorations of Loss and Grief)
The Restaurant at the End of the Internet (2020, published in Better Than IRL)

trans essays (slowly figuring it out)

hi, I’m agender. (2015)
portentous tumblr ask (2015)
The Caretaking of Life (2018, published in The Suburban Review #10)
‘Moving Into a More Transfeminine Space’: An Investigation (2023)
A home to treasure, a home to flee (2023)
HRT: five reflections after five months (2023)
‘going around being a woman’: an update (2025)

(plus a smattering of tumblr posts that I think have something to them:)

Rating the most trans passages in Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid (2026)
the greatest ever fantasy for passive and diffident trans girls (2023)
The Penises of Berserk: An Analysis (2022)
Fuck NFTs (2022)
The Ministry for the Future and Climate Grief (2021)
Climate Change and the Denial of Interdependence (2019)
My Experience of Religion as a Simpsons Meme (2019)
Tricking Your Brain with Jokes (2019)
The Battle Hymns of the Republic (2018)
Weird Ambivalent Whorephobia in Firefly (2016)
The Work of Managing Men’s Emotions (2016)
The Three Mistakes of Gender (2015)
Abusive Humans of New York (2015)
On Geeks, Creeps, and Statistical Thresholds (2015)
Philosophical Pragmatism and Gender (2015)
Florence and Jane (2014)
Feminism, Rationality, and ‘Rationality’ (2014)
Inhabitation vs Empathy in Video Games (2013)
Losing My Fucking Mind About How Garbage ‘The Newsroom’ Is (2012)
“What is Philosophy?” (2010)