Non-Fiction

Published essays: 

Power Cut The Stinging Fly

Big Funeral Energy Moxy 

Once Removed Banshee 

Empire of Misogyny Headstuff

Change Comes in May Headstuff 

Girls Blush, Sometimes Headstuff: Irish essayist series 

Selected Book Reviews

The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed in the Irish Times 

Any Girl by Mia Döring in the Irish Times 

Unsettled by Rosaleen McDonagh in the Irish Times 

Travelling while Black by Nanjala Nyabola in the Irish Times 

Correspondences, by Jessica Traynor and Stephen Rea eds in the Irish Times 

Republic of Shame by Caelainn Hogan in The Stinging Fly 

This Hostel Life by Melatu Uche Ochorie in Headstuff 

Selected research and opinion pieces (see also my academic writing)

Trans lives aren't black and white: our conversations about them shouldn't be either Thejournal.ie

‘Respectful Relationalities: Engaging with Opposing Views’: for World Without Gender Website, by Carol Ballantine and Kath Browne

‘Learning to Listen: Storytelling infused with stigma’. Sage Perspectives research blog

Each for Equal on International Women’s Day AkiDwA blog

How Ireland’s asylum system commits violence against women’ RTE Brainstorm

‘How stigma and shame are deployed for political ends’ RTE Brainstorm

‘Funding for domestic and sexual violence support services “inadequate”’ Irish Examiner, by Forde, C., Ballantine, C. and Duvvury N. 

Book: Little Oases

Unpublished memoir: Please direct enquiries to Holly Faulks at Greene and Heaton 

In 2015 my twins started school: they were not quite five years old. The same month I began a PhD in the sociology of gender and violence against women. Although the twins, Jamie and Zack (not their real names) are identical, their gender identities are anything but. Little Oases is the story of what mothering my identical twins taught me, an Irish feminist sociologist, about gender and sex. 

Little Oases joins a growing body of literature that places trans lives in contemporary context as multiple, undefinable, joyful and utopian. It recognises the confusion and anxiety that surround the issue of trans identities in childhood, and shines an accessible, generous and expert light on the difficult theoretical debates that can make understanding difficult. It is shamelessly political, expertly researched, and immersively told, inviting the reader to imagine the lives of gender non-conforming children as something both daunting and deeply promising.