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Happy Trans Visibility Day. Also, can we stop doing this now?

No one should be celebrating trans woman today. Celebrate us as women, celebrate our achievements, everyday, any day but not one day…

2 min readMar 30, 2021

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Happy Trans Visibility Day. Also, can we stop doing this now?

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tea uglow

in defence of shame.

A letter to my American cousins in (partial) defence of the UK’s farcical, shambolic, yet honourable (‘ish) democratic humiliation (and how…

8 min readOct 23, 2022

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in defence of shame.

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tea uglow

Twitter thinks transphobia is free speech, it’s not & it’s another White People Problem.

I am not a great petitioner. But we have a real problem on Twitter and relatively few avenues with which to explain it. So, from the top…

5 min readFeb 18, 2021

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Twitter thinks transphobia is free speech, it’s not & it’s another White People Problem.

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tea uglow

What do we mean by privilege; explaining intersections.

A smart man said to a smart friend.. "when people talk about straight white men it’s essentializing and dehumanising and I don’t think it’s…

2 min readJun 7, 2020

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Picture of a small assistance dog called Ginny.

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tea uglow

Racial Injustice is a Social Injustice

What causes Social Injustice?

2 min readJun 7, 2020

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graphic protest poster — red fist raised with ND symbol next to text that reeds Black Disabled Lives Matter

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tea uglow

Mashable asked me about Transphobia in the UK press. Here’s the whole thread.

In a very elegant piece by Rachel Thompson for Mashable I was given the chance to think a little more deeply about an artwork I made…

7 min readAug 22, 2019

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Mashable asked me about Transphobia in the UK press. Here’s the whole thread.

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tea uglow

The WHY of ‘We Kiss the Screens’; Editions at Play; 2019.

This is a(nother) new kind of ‘digital’ book about an old idea, from Editions at Play. The old idea is that we all see truth in our…

7 min readMar 20, 2019

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The WHY of ‘We Kiss the Screens’; Editions at Play; 2019.

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tea uglow

Emmanuel School Speech Night.

I was very lucky recently to be asked, via the brilliant Rachel Botsman, to say a few words at the conclusion of the school year. That…

8 min readJan 20, 2019

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tea uglow

Does the sun go around the earth? .. and other reasons why we don’t understand gender.

Sometimes a sub-editor’s decision on a strap-line (below) can skew a whole article’s perspective.

7 min readMar 15, 2018

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Does the sun go around the earth? .. and other reasons why we don’t understand gender.

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tea uglow

Intersectionality is the new Black

[This is a longer version of the essay that appeared in It’s Nice That]

4 min readMar 15, 2018

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Intersectionality is the new Black

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tea uglow

tea uglow

[‘Tea’, like the drink.] I work for Google on atypical creative projects, and talk about doubt, reality, diversity, and biscuits.

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