Permanently Differed: A Bibliographic Opera

2024   with Sophie Paul
How to Sleep Faster #15: PRIVATE (London, UK: Arcadia Missa Publishing)

Taking the form of a three-act play, this essay brings together a cast of gender and indigenous studies theorists, performance makers, and historians, to speculatively examine how the process of privatisation has produced hegemonic gender systems and therefor privatised gender, and what feminist publishing, as an activity of public-making, might do to re-common gendered affects.

In April 2025, we did a collective performance of the opera at TISSUE No. 8 at the Goldmsiths Centre of Contemporary Art. Each of the 2t parts in the opera were read or sung aloud by a different audience member.