This poetry chapbook playfully explores intergenerational touches and relations that wash through the lives of trans sex workers in Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland).

I gratefully acknowledge the generous financial support of ArtsNL and the Canada Council for the Arts.

This book takes an intimate, collaborative, interdisciplinary autoethnographic approach that both emphasizes the authors’ entangled relationships with the more-than-human, and understands the land and sea-scapes of Newfoundland as integral to their thinking, theorizing, and writing. The authors draw on feminist, trans, queer, critical race, Indigenous, decolonial, and posthuman theories in order to examine the relationships between origins, memories, place, identities, bodies, pasts, and futures.

poetry (selected)

Spawneater + Nearness

Paragon, forthcoming 2024.



Intracontinual

filling Station, 82, p. 16, 2024.

Errant Pleasure + Heretofore

Horseshoe, 2 (1), 2023.

Oceanleaving

PRISM international, 62 (1), p. 32, 2023.

Umbilicus

Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies, 3 (1), pp. 16-18. 2023.

anti-fragile looking forward

Spectral Lines: An Anthology of Visual Poems, 2022. Toronto: League of Canadian Poets.

How or Where + YOU ARE NOT ALONE + Eleanor Moody

Riddle Fence, 45, pp. 9-11, 2022.

A Blue Transhistoric

The Autoethnographer, 2022.

Every Shadow a Bother but You + Annals of Soft Resistance

Arc, 94, pp. 38-39. 2021.

 

Eating All Your Ashes I Was Meant to Spread at Sea

The Dalhousie Review, 100 (3), p. 358. 2020.

 

Sex Work Studies Syllabus is Void

untethered Magazine, 5 (2), p. 80. 2020.

 

Milky Light of a Clinica’s Infinite Gaze

Understorey Magazine, 18. 2020.

 

ANNOYING HH

Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry, eds. Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme, pp. 125-127. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press. 2019.

creative scholarship (selected)

Fish Trade Futures: Counter-Archives and Sex Worker Worlds at the Margins of St. John’s Harbour

Journal of Folklore Research, 60 (2/3), 67-94. 2023.

The Still Unfathomed Trans+Oceanic

The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada, 19 (2), Art 3. 2022.

Structural Slippage

Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NL. 2022.

Blue Light as Ineffable Sensuous Other

Feral Feminisms, 10, pp. 132-136. 2021.

Trans Women’s Archives in Fishy Fragments

Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NL. 2020.

Seawater/C-cup: Fishy Trans Embodiments and Geographies of Sex Work in Newfoundland

Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 11 (1), pp. 17-35. 2020.