writer, filmmaker, speaker, photographer and transgender advocate.
In addition to being a co-editrix of Twisted Moon Magazine, Liz is a regular contributor to Crikey and Scarleteen, as well as being published in a range of other print and online publications. A full publication list is available below.
You can also read Liz's work in the Queerstories book, out now with Hachette.
If you are interested in commissioning them to write or speak for your publication, organisation or event, please get in touch.
Areas of Interest:
NEWER
‘Passing’ - Poem for Cordite Issue 88
‘Trans people won't be erased, we can't be’ - Opinion for SBS Sexuality
‘Liz and Her Ex’ - Letter and loaned item for the Love exhibit (opening December 1st) at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne
‘'Rapid-onset gender dysphoria' is a poisonous lie used to discredit trans people’ - Opinion for The Guardian
‘What's the harm of blocking LGBTIQ students and teachers?’ - Roundtable for Crikey
‘Left Wanting’ - Reading for Queerstories, at Giant Dwarf
An artist at NYWF in 2018, readings including 'Ana Pascal'
‘Let's Talk About Girldick’ - Article for Scarleteen
‘The Period of Choice’ - Essay for Meanjin
‘bleeding in a foreign city’ - Poem for Rabbit Magazine Issue 23
‘Why Germaine Greer is not entitled to a place at the Brisbane Writers festival’ - Opinion for SBS Life
‘We Need to Talk About Tom Ballard’ - Essay for Meanjin
‘Australia’s gender recognition laws are a mess. It’s time for radical change’ - Article for Crikey ($)
‘Rethinking How We Talk About Sex and Gender’ - Article for Scarleteen
‘The trailblazing, opera singing queer icon you never knew you needed’ - Profile and Interview with CN Lester, for SBS Sexuality
‘Knowing and Unknowing’ - Reading for Queerstories, at Giant Dwarf - podcast available here, and available to read in the Queerstories book
OLDER
Speaker at SAMAG's 'Disarming Sexism in the Arts: #Metoo, but what next?' panel, at Sydney Opera House (video)
‘How a US law broke the internet (and what that means for Australia)’ - Article for Crikey ($)
‘On deadnaming Chelsea Manning’ - Opinion for SBS Life
‘Navigating My Health Record For Trans And Gender Diverse Communites’ - Article for ACON
‘Becoming Seen’ - Memoir for The Pussy Parlour newsletter ($)
‘The banality of discrimination: how bureaucratic inertia is failing non-binary people’ - Article for Crikey ($)
‘Trans Stories: about us, by us and for us’ - Review for Overland
‘I'm Here, Get Over It’ - Interview, for the ABC's Mardi Gras 40th anniversary magazine
‘#MeToo, But Now What’ - Article for Overland
‘The Family We Leave Behind’ - Review of Belvoir's 'Hir', for Kill Your Darlings
‘A Definitive Ranking Of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's Best Films’ - Longform review for Junkee
‘The tragedy of silenced conservatives: an interview with the rainbow gestapo’ - Humour, for Crikey, originally self published
Coeditrix of Twisted Moon Magazine
‘moonless'’ - Short story for Gravel Mag
‘Why Malcolm Turnbull’s attack on privacy is a feminist issue’ - Opinion for Daily Life
‘So You Wanna Record And Release A (Cheap) Podcast’ - How-to self published on Medium
Attendee of Junket 2017 in Canberra, Australia
‘Non-hierarchical polyamory: Stepping off the relationship escalator’ - Article for Archer Magazine
One year on: a reflection - Personal writing on the Orlando shooting, self published
Four micro-fictions for Story Seed Vault, 10, 18, 26, & 48 (26 which won 3rd place in their Antarctic contest, and 48 which won 3rd place in their Bee contest)
‘Shake the Ghosts: A conversation with Ivan Coyote’ - Interview for Kill Your Darlings
‘7 reveal parties more fun than gender reveal parties’ - Humour self published
‘The best things about being a card-carrying member of the queer community’ - Opinion for Daily Life
‘Framing a Framed Man: The trouble with The Trouble with Harry’ - Review of Siren Theatre Company's 'The Trouble With Harry', for Kill Your Darlings
‘The problem with how transgender beauty is celebrated on the pages of Vogue’ - Opinion for Daily Life
‘two poems’ - Poems for moonsick magazine
‘If it’s still taboo to date transgender people, how far have we really come?’ - Opinion for Daily Life
‘7 reveal parties more fun than gender reveal parties’ - Humour self pubished on Medium
‘a private email’ - Blackout poem for pnk prl
‘seeing elizabeth’ - Personal writing self published
‘Why it’s time for parents to re-think declaring their children’s gender’ - Opinion for Daily Life
‘Representation’ - Poem self published
‘A look inside the false church of tolerance’ - Opinion for Star Observer, April 2016 print issue
‘tectonic girl’ and ‘partial memories of friday night’ - Poems for Concrete Queers zine CQ5
‘Queering Ideas, or the kids are alright’ - Opinion self published on Medium
‘R Is For Representation’ - Article for F is for Feminism
‘I’m A Man, And I’m A Feminist’ - Humour self published
’when girls talk’ and ’threads’ - Poems self published 1 & 2
‘On Trans Day of Remembrance’ - Personal writing self published