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Poems

‘Palestinian Embroidery (Kettles’ Yard, 19 October 2023)’, Responses to “Forbidden Colors” (1988) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, ed. Sam Moore, Pilot Press, 2023. 100% of profits go to Medical Aid for Palestinians.

‘Isaac Transaction’, Poetry Review 113.3, Autumn 2023.

‘betweensongs 4, betweensongs 9 & after ward’, Prototype 5, 2023.

‘bends with the remover to remove‘, bath magg 11, 2023 [scroll down on page for audio recording].

‘butt’, Impossible Archetype 13, 2023.

‘betweensongs 10‘, Modron 1, 2022.

‘Carapace’, Altered States, eds. Sarah Shin and Ben Vickers, Ignota, 2021.

‘Over’, On Relationships, 3ofCups, 2020.

‘Palaver’, Trans Love, ed. Freiya Benson, JKP, 2019.

Stories

‘A Yarn’, Gutter 29, Spring 2024.

‘boundless‘, Short Fiction, Nov 2023.

‘We Interrupt Our Program: An Exclusive Dispatch from a Film Festival Takeover [transmission facilitated by So Mayer]’, MUBI Notebook 3, 2023.

‘Questions Asked by the Water‘ (interactive story, co-written with Jenny Chamarette), Something Other, 2023

‘Dune Elegies’, Dinesh Allirajah Short Story Award 2023: Music, shortlist anthology.

‘In Space’, Riptide 15: Breath, 2023.

‘Introduction’ (with Adam Zmith), Unreal Sex, eds. So Mayer and Adam Zmith, Cipher, 2021.

‘Pornographene’, Extra Teeth 4, Nov 2021.

‘Lyonesses’, Fission 1, ed. Allen Stroud, BSFA, 2021.

Essays

‘ “Killing Joy is a World-Making Project”: Queer Female Friendships at the End of the World in Sally Potter’s The Gold Diggers (1982) and Ginger & Rosa (2012)’, On Feminist Films, ed. Stuart Bell, The South London Cultural Review Vol. 2, 2024

‘we are the language’, Poetry Wales 59.3, Spring 2024.

‘ivy’, Lunate 3, 2023.

‘Gracing Pattern: Luke Fowler’s Piobiareachd for Margaret Tait‘, Open City Documentary Festival 2023.

‘ish‘, What the Water Gave Us, Takeaway Press/Lucy Writers Platform, 2023.

‘Petite maman: Au revoir l’enfance‘, Criterion Blu-ray release of Petite Maman, May 2023.

‘On Not Watching Passion‘, Shuddhashar 34: Intimacy, May 2023.

‘Love Has (No) Laws: Queer Weimar Cinema Across Borders‘, WeimarCinema.org, Spring 2023.

‘Collective Bargaining: The Political Radicalism of British Film Collectives’, Frieze 233, Winter 2023.

‘Reaching Out from a Messy Place’, LUMIN 4, 2021.

‘ “An invitation to enchantment” ‘, Black Film British Cinema II, eds. Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha, Goldsmiths Press, 2021.

‘Well’, Magma 79: Dwelling, 2021.

‘Dancing in the Streets: The Politics of Sense8‘s Pleasure Activism’, Sense8: Transcending Television, eds. Deborah Shaw and Rob Stone, Bloomsbury, 2021.

‘Space Orchids’, In the Past the Future Was Better: Cipher Shorts 2, Cipher, 2020.

‘ “Ah! to fleet / Never fleets móre” ‘, At the Pond, Daunt Books Publishing, 2019.

‘Introduction: The Broken Open’, Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry, eds. Sarah Shin and Rebecca Tamás, Ignota, 2018.

‘Floccinaucinihilipilification’, Not that Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, (UK / US), ed. Roxane Gay, Atlantic, 2019 / HarperCollins, 2018.

Reviews & Interviews

‘Breaking Open New Worlds: An Interview with Bishakh Som,’ MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture 10, Special Issue: Feminist Discourse in Comics & Graphic Novels (Spring 2023)