So Tough (Musings on Patriarchy) deconstructs patriarchal male culture - with a big slice of empathy (a la Alok Menon)
So Tough (Musings on Patriarchy) (2025)
So Tough (Musings on Patriarchy) deconstructs patriarchal male culture - with a big slice of empathy (a la Alok Menon)
26A7 (2025)
26A7 is the unicode character for the trans symbol / emoji ⚧️. The song is a celebration of what it means / what it is like to be trans.
Very Stupid Things (2025)
Very Stupid Things is a collection of stupid things – some of which are things I did – some are things my friends did. I have ambitions to curate many more.
Compton's Cafe Riot (2025)
Compton’s Cafe Riot celebrates a riot that occurred in San Francisco in August 1966, when queer and trans people fought back against police harassment and oppression.
Stories (2023)
Gender Frontier was inspired by my arriving in San Francisco – and realising this was where I was meant to be – “Pioneers in spirit, pioneers in form… We’ve found a place where we don’t hide”.
San Francisco has a disheartening number of unhoused people on the streets. And I wondered about their stories – were they veterans, single parents, queer kids, …?
Hot Bot Romance seems pertinent with the rise of AI relationships. It describes a romantic encounter with a bot in a chat room – plot twist: the narrator might be a bot as well.
Poems was inspired by a 3 line poem fragment about a first date with a poet – where it turned out the poet went home and the poems got to stay.
Boxing Day is about the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami – the deadliest natural disaster of the 21st century – and incorporates lyrics from the "The Kraken" by Alfred Tennyson.
I Want To Look Like That was written after a session with my therapist talking about body image anxieties – particularly challenging for trans people – but also resonate with many other bodies.
