PUBLICATIONS
Cyborg Memoirs 2012-2019 working class internet history & trans memoir author, editor, layout & design 2023 Nov Cyborg Memoirs Newsletter monthlyish text & experimental audio subscriber newsletter for in-progress works, critiques, news & updates 2015 ~ present Real Work You Deserve excerpt for Nat. Brut Issue 14 2020 Fall Transitional Times Transitional Body feature short story collection author, editor, layout & design 2019 Dec Venus Saturn Square vol. 0 a smut zine of contradicting conflicting trans & queer desires editor, contributor, layout & design 2019 Apr METROPOLARITY'S Journal of Speculative Vision & Critical Liberation Technologies: Bad User Agreement co-editor, contributor, layout & design 2018 Nov Discipline Welcomes Beauty [audio version] a bitch's/witch's grimoire author, editor, layout & design 2018 May Under Empire essay for CLOG Magazine Artificial Intelligence issue 2018 Apr Transcendent 3: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction anthology edited by Bogi Takács, Lethe Press short story contributor w/ Heat Death of Western Human Arrogance reprint [audio] 2018 Oct SEXINESS: Rituals, Revisions, and Reconstructions contributor, Discipline Press 2018 May The Colonial Romance of Outer Space essay for Mask Magazine's Escape issue 2017 Jan Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction anthology edited by Bogi Takács, Lethe Press w/short story About A Woman and A Kid 2017 Oct Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers anthology edited by Cat Fitzpatrick & Casey Plett, Topside Press short story contributor w/ Heat Death of Western Human Arrogance [audio] 2017 Sept METROPOLARITY'S Style of Attack Report co-editor, contributor, layout & design 2016 Sept SHEDDING Zine a cut-and-paste time capsule author, editor, layout & design 2016 Aug Apiary 8: Soft Targets a METROPOLARITY collaboration with Philadelphia's only free, volunteer-run literary magazine guest fiction editor, contributor 2016 Jul METROPOLARITY's Journal of Speculative Vision & Critical Liberation Technologies Archive co-editor, contributor, layout & design collaborator 2013 ~ 2018 ALL THAT'S LEFT zine & audio cassette series zero, first, second & prototype packets 2012 ~ 2015
HONORS / AWARDS
2022 & 2021 Illuminate the Arts Grant pandemic related grant to "sustain and stimulate the recovery of Philadelphia’s arts and culture community" from the city's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy Anthologies including short story Heat Death of Western Human Arrogance • 2020 American Library Association Over the Rainbow Longlist Transcendent 3 anthology • 2018 American Library Association Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award; • 2018 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBTQ Anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere anthology About A Woman and A Kid in Transcendent 2 anthology • 2018 Lambda Literary Award Winner, Transgender Fiction; • 2018 Locus Award Finalist, Anthology Style of Attack Report by METROPOLARITY co-editor, contributor, layout & design, 2016 Sept • 2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBTQ SF/F/Horror 2016 Leeway Foundation Transformation Award Awards an artist’s long-term commitment to social change work in Philadelphia. 2014 Leeway Foundation Art & Change Grant Greater Philadelphia project-based grant to fund art for social change.
SELECT INTERVIEWS / REVIEWS
The bond of uncertain futures review of Transitional Times Transitional Body by Corey Qureshi for Broad Street Review 2020 May Non-Binary World Building with M. Téllez interview conducted by Estraven Lupino-Smith for Shameless Mag 2018 Jan Viable Ways For Living: Trans Authors on SFF in Meanwhile, Elsewhere roundtable with Cat Fitzpatrick, Jeanne Thorton, Trish Salah, and Ayşe Devrim for Unbound Worlds SFF magazine 2017 Oct “Meanwhile, Elsewhere” Unapologetically Centers Trans People In Sci-Fi review by Katherine Cross for Bitch Magazine 2017 Oct In Other Worlds A Review of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science-Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers by Brett Cassady Willes for GUTS Magazine 2017 Sept An interview with Discipline Press conducted in New York City by Tamara Santibañez 2016 Dec with METROPOLARITY Interview with METROPOLARITY conducted in Philly by JB Brager for Mask Magazine's Material issue 2017 Mar assassinating infinity: an interview with metropolarity conducted in Philly by marcella faustini for SFMOMA's Open Space 2016 Jul Metropolarity for New Museum Seminars: (Temporary) Collections of Ideas around SPECULATION watch full video - skip to 1:07 for our part 2015 June, New York City Zine Philosophy: METROPOLARITY for Broken Pencil Magazine 2014 Aug
SELECT READINGS/APPEARANCES/PERFORMANCES
The Floating World Podcast Episode 5: Ghosts of Mars (feat. M Téllez) 2020 Feb, West Phila Weird Kids Wanted Podcast Episode 11: Speculative Fiction Panel LIVE at Novel Idea 2019 Nov, South Phila Bodies Assembled: Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives at Haverford College 2019 Dec, Haverford PA Venus Saturn Square: A Smut Reading Official release soirée for a trans-centered erotic zine Vox Populi Gallery 2019 Sept, Downtown Phila Philadelphia Sci-Fi Unconvention featuring Metropolarity at The Insectarium & Butterfly Pavillion 2019 Mar, Northeast Phila What Color is Blue appearance as fictional person in full length film by Carman Spoto 2018, West Phila Soothsaying with Metropolarity one-off television program produced by PhillyCAM 2017 Jul, Center City Phila MOOGFEST workshops & reading events alongside Black Quantum Futurism collective as part of the fest's ‘Future Thought’ programming 2017 May, Durham NC a cross thru feature on Solarized's Thermodynamics of Life 2017 Apr, West Phila TOMORROW NEVER HAPPENS opening reception at Samek Gallery, Bucknell University 2016 Aug, Lewisburg PA ICA Philly Free For All w/ Black Quantum Futurism 2016 Sept, University City Phila Soft Targets: Vulnerability and Violence in the New Post-Apocalypse writing workshop and reading double feature in collaboration with Apiary Magazine 2016 Mar, Free Library of Philadelphia Parkway Central Location YOU HAVE 4 MESSAGES Recess Critical Writing Program written in parallel with Sondra Perry: My Twilight Zone Thing 2015 Dec, New York City Metropolarity LIVE at the Kelly Writers House WXPN 88.5FM 2015 Sept, University City Phila NOWTOPIA at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University 2015 Aug, University City Phila 2015 Trans Literary Salon featured reader 2015 June, PA Convention Center Metropolarity at Swarthmore’s Queer & Trans Conference 2015 Mar, Swarthmore PA Featured Guest at RIPExpo: Rhode Island Independent Publishing Expo 2015 Mar, Providence Public Library, RI 4th AUX Curatorial Fellow Anthony Romero and METROPOLARITY present ERASURE at Vox Populi Gallery 2015 Jan, Center City Phila CANARIES group show at Cleopatra’s w/Maggie Eighteen [former pen name] 2014 Dec, New York City CHROME CITY co-host & performer for alt retro futurism QTBIPOC centered cabaret series 2014 ~ 2015, Center City Phila SPACE_DOME :: A NIGHT OF COSMIC ART at 40th Street AIR Space 2013 Aug, West Phila ALL THATS LEFT: generations of vomit. aka you keep fucking up her pronoun (so us faggot cyborgs will kill you) feature on HIRS's REMIXXXES10" 2013 Jan, West Phila LASER LIFE Queer Sci-Fi Reading Series regular reader at quarterly/intermittent series 2012 ~ 2019, West Phila, Center City Phila
SELECT COLLABORATIONS, WORKSHOPS, GUEST LECTURES, GATHERINGS
Mercury Monastery a month-long intensive fiction writing workshop for working people, initially free and closed to MFAs & career artists, then open & donation-based June & October 2021, via Discord Bodies Assembled: Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives guest lecturer, workshop facilitator, performer over fall semester. Fall 2019, Haverford PA Desire Practice recurring speculative writing workshop series, birthed in support of VENUS SATURN SQUARE smut project 2019 ~ ongoing Against Empire guest lecture w/Alex Smith for 'Design for this Century' graduate lecture course with Edward Keller at The New School Parsons Fall 2017, New York City Transcribez Trans & Gender Nonconforming Youth Writing Workshop Series guest workshop facilitator for Transcribez writing group at Kelly Writer's House 2016 Dec, University City Phila Apiary x METROPOLARITY Soft Targets Launch Party at the Painted Bride featured reader, guest fiction editor for Apiary Magazine issue 8 2016 Jul, Old City Phila Center for Peace and Global Citizenship's annual internship retreat sci-fi memoir writing workshop w/Alex Smith 2016 Apr, Haverford PA Rutgers New Brunswick LitFest centering marginalized voices through zine making workshop w/Alex Smith 2015 Oct, New Brunswick NJ Liberation Technologies Track at 2014 Allied Media Conference co-coordinator for programming track 2014 Jan ~ Jun, Detroit MI
DESIGN
SLOGANS FOR CYBORGS screenprinted cotton patches, pins, and stickers with the following slogans: 'A CACKLING BITCH' 'TRANSITIONAL TIMES TRANSITIONAL BODY' 'VAGINA MAYBE SHE'S BORN WITH IT MAYBE IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS' 'MY OTHER BODY IS IN THE SHOP' 'NOT EVERYBODY IS GOOD AT THEIR BODY' 2012 ~ 2019 MEAN SCARY FEMME APPRECIATION CLUB screenprinted cotton tote and stickers with above slogan 2018 DESIRE HOPE DESPAIR screenprinted tee and sticker series with slogan that evolved into DIY press & accessories distro 2016 ~ present RIDE WITH US AGAINST EMPIRE critical media poster for Metropolarity, avilable for free download with screenprinted versions available free for educators at all events