I’m a writer of longform and medium-length nonfiction, exploring minority politics (in particular, race, queer and gender issues; mental health; migration and diaspora), film and media, pop culture, arts criticism, philosophy, linguistics, the publishing industry, literature and education, plus the many intersections between these fields.

I also write poetry—mostly on love, desire, language and distance—as well as ramen reviews on Instagram via my hashtag #ratetheramen.

‘Late Night Lit: I Want to Know What Love Is’, EWF 2016

2018

• ‘Dreadful Domestic: Elevating the Abject in The Babadook’, Screen Education (forthcoming)
• ‘Canon Fodder: The Polemics of Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar’, Meanjin
• ‘Solstice 2’, Milk Crates
• ‘Pride in Programming: 25 Years of the Mardi Gras Film Festival’, ABC Mardi Gras 40th Anniversary Magazine

2017

• ‘Growing Up Queer: A Filipino Perspective’, Dumbo Feather
• ‘A Conversation with Yumi Umiumare’, Liminal
• ‘Confronting Images: Suicide, Rape Culture and Responsibility in 13 Reasons Why’, Screen Education

• ‘In the Spotlight’, Midsumma Festival
• ‘Motion’, Cordite Poetry Review
• ‘Critical Opinion Is Critical’, Margaret and David: 5 Stars 

• ‘A Conversation with Raina Peterson’, Liminal
• ‘Love in Time: Confronting Queerness in Call Me by Your Name’, Meanjin
• ‘A Conversation with Elizabeth Flux’, Liminal
• ‘Death of the Editor’, Overland
• ‘The Abstraction of Privilege’, Right Now​

• ‘“I’m a Badass Hunky Dude”: Gender, Hegemony and She’s the Man’, Screen Education
• ‘Confession’, The Suburban Review
• ‘A Conversation with Bobuq Sayed’, Liminal
• ‘Terrain’, ‘Slingshot’ and ‘Turbulence’, Peril
• ‘Container’, Mascara Literary Review 
• ‘Fingerprint’ (republished), Liminal 
• ‘Confessions of a Privileged Minority’, Right Now

2016

• ​‘Queering the Airwaves for TV Diversity’, Eureka Street
• ‘Straight Talk about Toxic Homonormativity’, Right Now
• ‘Reimagining Manhood after ABC’s Man Up’, Eureka Street
• ‘Populism, Trump and the Perils of “Dutertopia”’, Right Now
• ‘Combating the Selfishness of Freedom of Expression’, Right Now
• ‘Oppression Olympics: A Game Nobody Wins’, Right Now
• ‘Discriminating Differently’, Right Now
• ‘Increasing Mental Health Visibility’, Right Now
• ‘Matters of Consequence: Growing Up with The Little Prince’, Screen Education

• ‘Fingerprint’, ‘Constellations’ and ‘Journey’, Plaything
• ‘Setting Change in Motion (Pictures)’, Right Now (republished by the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival)
• ‘Beyond “Colourblindness” and Racebending’, Right Now
• ‘1035’, Scum

2015

• ‘People of Colour and Sexuality (roundtable)’, Plaything
• ‘Power from a Different Perspective: Race, Gender and Grief in Big Hero 6’, Screen Education​

• ‘Adolfo Aranjuez Recommends Loving Absolutely and without Fear’, The Lifted Brow
• ‘Walking through the Fire: For Kat Muscat’, Writers Victoria (republished by The Wheeler Centre)
• ‘The Legend of Korra and Minority Representation’, Screen Education
• ‘Editorially Speaking’, Melbourne Writers Festival blog

2014

• ‘A Different Shade of Evil: Questions of Ethics in Maleficent’, Screen Education

• ‘In the Claws of the City: Manila in Film’, The Manila Review
• ‘Museums without Walls: Safeguarding Our Heritage’, Simpublica​
• Amadeo: Changing Latitudes, from ‘The Third Space’ series of novellas, Garratt Publishing

• ‘You’re “Literally” a Grammar Nazi’, Going Down Swinging​

​2013

• ‘Surface to Air vs Sea Hearts’, Meanjin
• ‘Introduction’, Award Winning Australian Writing 2013
• ‘Internet Killed the Editing Star’, Virgule
• ‘Does This Make Sense?’, Virgule​
• ‘Know Your Roots’, Virgule
• ‘Win, Win, Nudge, Nudge: Why Enter Writing Competitions’, The Emerging Writer
• ​‘Compounded’, Virgule
• Translation and commentary, ‘Three Stories in the Life of Julian Candelabra’ (by Lualhati Bautista), The Lifted Brow

• ‘The Write and Wrong Words’, Virgule
• ‘Apostrophilia’, Virgule​

2012

• ‘“That” versus “Which” (a.k.a. Microsoft Word Keeps Adding Squiggly Green Lines)’, Virgule
• ‘Introduction’, Award Winning Australian Writing 2012
• ‘Month of Reading’, The Victorian Writer
• ‘The Seduction of the Intellect: On Truth and Poeisis’, 
  Metre Maids
• ‘The Editor Wears Prada’, Virgule
• ‘Solstice’, Geek Mook​

2011

• ‘Latitudes’, Voiceworks
• ‘Introduction’, Award Winning Australian Writing 2011
• ‘On Writing and Competitions’, Meanjin
• ‘Pyrolysis’, Hands Like Mirrors
• ​‘Splinter’, Velour Poetry Zine
• ‘Off the Mill’, Voiceworks
• ‘To A.A.B., one year later’, Apple Cart Zine

2010

• ‘Introduction’, Award Winning Australian Writing 2010
• ‘Soldier(ing)’, Voiceworks
• ‘Reading Space’, Virgule
• ‘Josephine’, Love, Loss & Intimacy
• ‘How Exquisite (Corpse)!’, Virgule

​​2009

• ‘Panopticon 2.0’, Voiceworks

• ‘Dumpster Diving’, Youth Central
  
• ‘I Dress, Therefore I am’, Voiceworks
• ‘Of Catwalks and Copycats’, Voiceworks
  
• ‘Op-Shopping: A Rough Guide’, Youth Central 

2008

• ‘A T-Shirt Named Desire’, Voiceworks
• ‘Centre Upgrade to Open’, Hobsons Bay Leader
  
• ‘What is This Financial Crisis Thing All About?’, Youth Central 
• ‘Power is the New Black’, Voiceworks
• ‘Boy-girls and Girl-boys’, Voiceworks
  
• ‘Explode’, Vibewire
  
• ‘The Op-Shop Pandemic’, Vibewire 
  
• ‘Wooden-soled Boots and a Mustard-Yellow, Sausage-Shaped Train’, Vibewire