The following are articles/zines/reports that I have produced in the past, exploring a variety of political themes.
1. Transport Champion Report
In 2023, I spent six months in a role pushing for transport in Bristol to be made more accessible and sustainable for Disabled people. This report highlights the barriers to achieving this and gives suggestions for where we go from here.
2. Charity or Change?
This article explores the complexity of charities and the work they do. I co-produced it with Sophie Pritchard, as part of my previous involvement with Bristol Redistro, which fundraises for grassroots groups working for social change.
Read ‘Charity or Change?’ via this link
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3. Welcome to the Working Class
Also related to my work with Bristol Redistro, I wrote this article as an attempt at honest exposure of how I can see that my class background has influenced the privileges I have and my wider life.
Read ‘Welcome to the Working Class’ via this link
4. How much is enough?
Also for Bristol Redistro, I created this as a tool to challenge people’s thinking on the wealth that they hold that is over and above what they need to live on. See below to download this if you want to share it.
5. Disabled activism, the environmental movement and Deep Adaptation
I’ve got a chronic illness and I’ve found things tough in the environmental movement when I’ve been involved, because my body and mind just can’t keep up and I get sick really fast. I wrote this article a number of years ago, after Jem Bendell’s ‘Deep Adaptation’ paper was released. A friend of mine got me thinking about the unexamined ableism in the environmental movement, and in Deep Adaptation thinking. I explore this in the article and look at some of the thinking on building inclusion into the heart of activism and resilience.
Read the article via this link
6. XR, do you love the world enough to help build a broad-based movement?
This article was written in 2019. I had early involvement in XR and left for a number of reasons (partly because my body and mind couldn’t keep up). XR has come a long way since then, and has developed in a lot of ways that I couldn’t see happening in the early days.
7. Just because you’ve been made invisible doesn’t mean you don’t exist
I wrote this ‘zine’ (DIY magazine/publication) a long time ago. It’s an exploration of what it might mean to be an ally to folks who are trans. A lot of the ideas and language have moved on, but it may still serve as a useful introduction. In writing the zine, my own sense of gender also shifted entirely to more of a non-binary identity (I still need to write that zine!).
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8. Welcome to the Desert…Enjoy Your Stay
This is another zine written from a long time ago. In 2010, I spent time on the US-Mexico border with ‘No More Deaths,’ who provide humanitarian aid to migrants from central America traversing the incredibly hazardous Sonora desert. The zine is some analysis of the situation of racism, migration and the border at that time, which has of course changed and become more extreme since I was there.
Read ‘Welcome to the Desert…Enjoy Your Stay’ via this link
9. Learning to Live with Heart in this most Brutal of Worlds
This is a transcript from an interview I did with Naomi Archer, an indigenous rights activist of European descent, community organizer, and teacher of indigenous European life-ways. The interview is an exploration of the politics of spirituality – of how to develop our sense of spirituality in a decolonized way, of accessing knowledge about our ancestry, of tackling cultural appropriation and much more.
Read the transcript of ‘Learning to Live with Heart in this most Brutal of Worlds here
From The Heart Grows Wild 
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