Collected writing

Books * Comics * Culture * Development * Environment * Fiction * Food * Gender * History * Money * Music * Science/Tech * Sex * Social justice

• Literary Hub, "On the use of sensitivity readers in publishing"
• Brooklyn Magazine, " 'Death librarians' shed light on mortality and grief"
• [Contributor page at Book Riot]
• [Contributor page at the Ploughshares blog]

• VICE, "More women than ever are Marvel creators, but does that matter?"
• VICE, "Why Chew and Asian American superheroes still matter"
• Bright, "Comics pack an emotional punch"
• [Reviews of visually impressive books at Wink Books and Boing Boing]

• VICE, " 'The Scratch and Sniff Book of Weed' is more serious than you think"
• VICE, "Two KKK documentaries explore the responsibilities of activists and filmmakers"
• VICE, "White supremacists were everywhere in movies this year"
• BBC, "The stories behind Britain's weirdest weather words"
• BBC, "Why British English is full of silly-sounding words" (plus radio appearance)
• Submittable, "Dear white writers, please stop doing these things"
• The Offing, "London's current crush on New York"
• Inverse, " 'A Mortician's Tale' is a game about dealing with death"
• Catapult, "How I talk to my mother"
• Next City, "Game strengthens community links in London social housing"
• Cracked, "6 insane prejudices people have based on the way you talk"

• The Development Set, "How do you get people to give a shit about shit? Tell poop jokes"
• Next City, "Finding the 'heart and soul' of planning"
• The Atlantic, "The enduring unpopularity of the female condom"
• Truthout, "Crisis narratives and the ongoing drought in Ethiopia"
• WhyDev, "The language of development - and the bigger picture"

• Earth Island Journal, "Flights of fancy"
• Earth Island Journal, "London's urban batmen and batwomen offer lessons in urban coexistence"
• Hakai, "Fire, protests, and distrust in the wake of Chile's fishery shutdown"
• Hakai, "Coming soon: sustainable Saint Lucian sea moss"
• Next City, "Citizen-led Bucharest park gets official stamp"
• The Daily Dot, "How the earliest victims of climate change are protecting each other"

• Apogee, "Managed migration"
• Mash Stories, "The first time"
• Eco-Chick, "Meditations on water, from an unwell woman"

• Food52, "Why people are choosing to eat at hospitals"
• New York Times, "Visiting McDonald's with my grandmother"
• Munchies, "How Korean seaweed got turned into a health food"
• Vegan Society, "The cost of a vegan diet: an international perspective"

• How We Get to Next, "How to make public transportation safer for women"
• Bitch, "Hey hey! Ho ho! Where did radical cheerleaders go?"
• SheKnows, "Why it's so important for women to share their stories about not having kids"
• Women's Media Center, "Sextortion: name it, fight it"

• Damn Interesting, "No country for ye olde men"
• Damn Interesting, "Poor execution"
• Damn Interesting, "The king's letters"
• Damn Interesting, "The prince of icebergs"
• Damn Interesting, "Into the bewilderness"
• CityLab, "At these costume parties, Londoners take refuge in Blitz nostalgia"
• Hyperallergic, "From birch-bark shoes to propaganda posters, surveying relics from the Russian Revolution"
• The Telegraph, "Can a hidden underwater city bring tourists back to Turkey?"

• The Billfold, "The price of British citizenship (via the long and scenic route)"
• The Billfold, "A less-than-helpful guide to socializing while broke"
• The Billfold, "Tiny mobile rooms of summer"

• Noisey, "A look back at the Chinkees, the ska band that reclaimed Asian identity"
• CityLab, "What being a touring musician teaches you about practical urbanism"
• Motherboard, "Tomorrow's musical instruments look like lightsabers and metal detectors"
• The Smart Set, "The positive psychology of metal music"

• Ars Technica, "How being replaced by a machine turned this graphic artist into an activist"
• Ars Technica, "The challenge of keeping Olympic wheelchair rugby players cool"
• Ars Technica, "Your teeth are probably better than an Olympian's"
• Motherboard, "Virtual autopsies help shed light on possible child abuse"
• New York Magazine, "When sleep problems turn into relationship problems"
• New York Magazine, "Here's why eye contact is so awkward for some people"
• New York Magazine, "Why audience participation is so terrifying"
• CityLab, "Can't sleep? Maybe it's your neighborhood"
• The Daily Dot, "How Romania brought broadband to a whole country--and who got left behind"
• Damn Interesting, "Of earwax and ethnicity"

• Broadly, "What sex guides say about our changing views on sex"
• Broadly, "When 'staged' voyeur porn gets too real"
• The Week, "Why we should all be having sex with robots" (plus podcast)
• Barefoot Vegan, "Conversations with makers of vegan sex toys"
• Upworthy, "These savvy women are redefining the sex shop, and business is taking off"

• How We Get to Next, "Without technology inside, how can prisoners thrive when they get out?"
• How We Get to Next, "The world has a playground deficit"
• Hyperallergic, "101 unflinching portraits of survivors of US gun violence"
• The Development Set, "Keep protesting. It's good for you."
• Literary Hub, "Telling stories of police brutality, one panel at a time"
• GOOD, "The Deplorables' Guide should be everyone's go-to handbook for resisting hate"
• The Big Issue Australia, "Off the shelf"
• Medium, "An explanation for genocide? Testing aggression against different groups"