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Corrected links from last newsletter!
November 30, 2025
Hi everyone! It was very kindly pointed out to me that the links I sent to my previous work in my last newsletter weren’t accessible. I had checked the links...

Refusing to climb the ornamental tree
November 24, 2025
It’s taken a long time to feel like I have any right to tell people I am a writer. When I had an essay published in Vittles earlier this year, I thought that...

There Is No Escape: Video Games and Failure Under Late Capitalism
September 18, 2023
(TW: this piece includes a link to a news article which discusses suicide and self harm in the context of the UK benefits system. There's no discussion in...

Music for Albatrosses
July 3, 2023
The nostalgia cycle has been flirting with the mid-noughties for so long that it’s almost passé. In August, it will be the third anniversary of this Vice...

More Songs About Being Autistic
June 19, 2023
There isn’t one objective, universal experience of autism, but the stereotype that’s been most often held up as the One True Autism - quiet, avoidant...

Too Many Tomato Plants
Too Many Tomato Plants
June 12, 2023
My tomato plants as of a week ago Every suitable windowsill in my house is taken up by tomato plants. Last October, when I moved house, my friend Siân bought...

Trans Nipples are Human Nipples
December 19, 2022
QUICK NOTE TO SAY: content warning for some gender surgery related chat, I've tried to highlight the gory bits but that's what this newsletter edition is...

We're Not The Only Ones: an argument for a queer interpretation of Employment by Kaiser Chiefs
August 23, 2022
Hey 'sup. You may have noticed I've switched from Tinyletter to Buttondown! To celebrate please enjoy something I've spent about three months picking at,...

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