writer, filmmaker, speaker, photographer and transgender advocate.
In addition to her speaking and educational work, 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.
If you are interested in commissioning them to write for your publication or organisation, speak at or moderate your event, ro to enquire about rates, please send her an email.
‘Crosses, Flags, Arches; an unofficial eulogy for Ronald McDonald’
Essay for Meanjin
‘Stigma and Shame: Accessing Healthcare as a Transgender or Gender-Diverse Person’
Article for Pussypedia
‘Wheelie Bin Juice’
Poem for Overland
‘The Last Decade Has All Been About Iconic Queer Women’
Article for Junkee
‘Archer Asks: Raquel Willis, executive editor of Out Magazine’
Interview for Archer Magazine
‘As the private lives of trans people are dragged into public debate, it’s time for facts’
Article for The Guardian, with Teddy Cook, Shoshana Roseberg, Mish Pony and Jeremy Wiggins
‘Becoming Out’
Article for Scarleteen
‘Trans women’
A co-written chapter in Sam George-Allen's 2019 book Witches: What Women Do Together
‘Clear History: Digital Minimalism and KonMari-ing the Cloud’
Essay for Kill Your Darlings, syndicated in The Guardian
‘When the personal ID becomes political’
Article for Crikey ($)
‘'Rapid-onset gender dysphoria' is a poisonous lie used to discredit trans people’
Opinion for The Guardian
‘Let's Talk About Girldick’
Article for Scarleteen
‘Knowing and Unknowing’
Story for the 2018 Queerstories book, edited by Maeve Marsden
‘bleeding in a foreign city’
Poem for Rabbit Magazine Issue 23
‘We Need to Talk About Tom Ballard’
Essay for Meanjin
As well as interviews with CN Lester, Ivan Coyote, and Pindi Hurring.
‘The Transphobic ‘Anti-PC Pack’ Proves Conservatives Don’t Actually Give A Fuck About Kids’
Article for Pedestrian
‘Four Crucial Queer Survival Tips for 2019’
Article for Scarleteen
‘Passing’
Poem for Cordite Issue 88
‘Liz and Her Ex’
Letter and loaned item for the Love exhibit (1/12/18 – 28/04/19) at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne
‘We Created A Wholesome Alternative To ‘The Australian’s Trashfire Gender Column’
Article for Junkee
‘Passing as What? All About Passing Privilege’
Article for Scarleteen
‘Trans people won't be erased, we can't be’
Opinion for SBS Sexuality
‘What's the harm of blocking LGBTIQ students and teachers?’
Roundtable for Crikey
‘The Period of Choice’
Essay for Meanjin
‘Why Germaine Greer is not entitled to a place at the Brisbane Writers festival’
Opinion for SBS Life
‘Australia’s gender recognition laws are a mess. It’s time for radical change’
Article for Crikey ($)
‘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
‘How a US law broke the internet (and what that means for Australia)’
Article for Crikey ($)
‘On deadnaming Chelsea Manning’
Opinion for SBS Life
‘Becoming Seen’
Memoir for The Pussy Parlour newsletter ($)
‘The banality of discrimination: how bureaucratic inertia is failing non-binary people’
Article for Crikey ($)
‘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
‘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
‘Non-hierarchical polyamory: Stepping off the relationship escalator’
Article for Archer Magazine
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘tectonic girl’ and ‘partial memories of friday night’
Poems for Concrete Queers zine CQ5
‘R Is For Representation’
Article for F is for Feminism
’when girls talk’ and ’threads’
Poems self published 1 & 2
Sydney Writers Festival in 2020 [appearance cancelled due to COVID19]
NYWF in 2019, readings including 'My Problematic Fav' and 'Boomer Porn'
‘Left Wanting’
Reading for Queerstories, at Giant Dwarf
NYWF in 2018, readings including 'Ana Pascal'
Speaker at SAMAG's 'Disarming Sexism in the Arts: #Metoo, but what next?' panel, at Sydney Opera House (video)
‘Knowing and Unknowing’
Reading for Queerstories, at Giant Dwarf - podcast available here,
and available to read in the Queerstories book
Attendee of Junket 2017 in Canberra, Australia
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