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You should come and see this in-person performance of my interactive queer sci-fi play Assigned Earth at Birth, at Bread and Roses Theatre in London on 11th or 12th December: app.lineupnow.com/event/tal…

→ 4:20 PM, Nov 20

On scripted interactions

A compliment I often receive is “you’re totally yourself, you don’t care what other people think”. Unfortunately, it’s not true. I worry a lot about how other people perceive me. It’s a bad habit, and an embarrassing one to have carried this far into adulthood. I’ve been told not to worry about this since I was a teenager who was verbally bullied a lot, and I’ve always found the advice illogical.
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→ 5:38 PM, Nov 12

A hybrid performance of Assigned Earth at Birth is coming to London in December, as part of the TALOS V science fiction theatre festival! post.intrapology.com/news/talo…

→ 2:35 PM, Nov 11

Interview with Geeks for Social Change

Dr Kim Foale very kindly invited me to do an interview for the Geeks for Social Change blog about digital archiving. It felt so validating to take a moment to reflect on one specific thread of my career, particularly one that connects to the museums side that goes all the way back to my undergrad year abroad experience. This interview was prompted by my two upcoming workshops with Raju Rage’s Desperate Livin project, on 22nd November online and 2nd December at Studio Voltaire in London.
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→ 4:39 PM, Nov 10

Trans-Digital-Archiving: Workshop 1 with Raju Rage, XYZ Projects and Studio Voltaire

Free, booking essential Saturday 22 November 2025, 4–6 pm UK time I’ll soon be running an online workshop on digital archiving, building on the Desperate Livin project that collects grassroots resources for trans people and our supporters in a handmade indie website (see desperatelivin.com) Participants will learn how to build and share their digital skills; centre Trans health, autonomy and community-led knowledge; improve accessibility across the Desperate Livin’ website; and keep the archive socially active and sustainable.
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→ 5:22 PM, Nov 3

Some (groups of) parks, mapped with Marcelo Prates’s Prettymaps github.com/marcelopr… All using my custom preset that focuses on green spaces and leisure / culture. Do you recognise any of them? I love how each has its own characteristic shape.

→ 3:54 AM, Oct 26

I’m running some queer storygame sessions in Rotherham during October half term, about witches, skeletons, and dirt: post.intrapology.com/news/plug…

→ 5:46 PM, Oct 14

I’m still looking for 3-5 artists who I can support with grant applications this Autumn-Winter. If you face barriers to formal grant writing processes then this is free to you, as many major funders will pay for support workers. zoyander.cc/services/

→ 12:27 PM, Oct 13

For artists doing projects in England - Arts Council Project Grants is now open for grants up to £100k. If you face access barriers that impact your ability to apply, I’d love to help: zoyander.cc/services/

→ 4:20 PM, Oct 6

Dodgy Derek's poisoned pond (a story about creative fields)

Here’s something that connects a lot of the moral injury and just awkward conversations that I have as a digital artist in the 2020s: A concept, tool, or field of enquiry was once a broad possibility space, explored by folks with lots of different perspectives and interests. A big pond that you can swim around in around fairly freely, without feeling a strong pull in one direction or another. Some currents lead you closer to capital, some lead you further away.
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→ 1:07 PM, Sep 30

On the question "Does Sheffield have an indie games scene?"

This article in Now Then Magazine is at its heart a lovely profile of three local game developers: one small work for hire boutique, and two artgame devs making the sort of thing that’s very close to my heart. Indeed, it’s the kind of thing I constantly have to explain even to people who consider themselves gamers: Maisha Wester’s Coded Black, co-written by Desiree Reynolds, is a walking simulator about anti-Blackness in the US and UK; and Benjamilian Swithen’s Trans Theft Horso is an adventure game about gender gladness.
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→ 7:00 AM, Sep 17

I’d like to support between 3 and 5 artists to write grant applications between now and December. Disabled and neurodivergent artists may be eligible for FREE support. You can request my help with Arts Council England Project Grants, which reopens this month: zoyander.cc/services/

→ 5:07 PM, Sep 1

Flags

I read an article on CNN that was like “it’s normal to see our national flag here in the US, but in the UK it’s controversial”. This was sort of true in the 2010s, for a certain value of “normal”. In my time in California in the mid-2010s I always knew I’d wandered too far from the Bart station when I started seeing flags. When you get too far from a dense population centre, the settlement quickly starts to lose its coherence and has to loudly assert its own existence.
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→ 5:25 PM, Aug 30

Map of regions supported by the UK government’s Department for Culture Media and Sports (DCMS) Create Growth programme. A frustrating time to be running a creative business in South Yorkshire.

→ 11:48 AM, Aug 14

Absolutely love being able to create a custom interface for every performance. This is one of those joys of creativity online that every artist should get to experience. I hope if we get to keep making the show we’ll be able to keep raising the bar on our digital set design. Intrapology.com

→ 1:13 PM, Jul 15

Catch up on Episodes 1-3 of Intrapology. Register to see Episode 4 LIVE this Sunday at intrapology.com/tickets

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→ 4:28 PM, Jul 14

Teletext art for Intrapology S01E04 audio description segments

I’m feeling so excited today after a fantastic session with the Intrapology tech team. This week we we’ve been preparing pre-recorded assets for the show on 20th July, which takes place in a utopian community in a small fragment world started by an alien anthropologist who did fieldwork on earth in the 1970s. I’ve long wanted to make a Teletext-based artwork, so I’ve been keen to take advantage of the opportunity to incorporate Teletext into how I imagine this world.
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→ 7:51 PM, Jul 12

Softly as in a Morning Sunrise [Free] [Interactive Fiction]

→ 9:33 PM, Jul 7

The lonely internet

I’m trying to guard these vulnerable feelings with care, but I want to say something in the open about how utterly lonely it is trying to find the audience for Intrapology. Rationally, I know that this is not personal, nor a reflection of the quality of my work. For one thing, Intrapology is made by a team of very talented people, and even on a bad day I can see clearly that my own deficiencies as an artist are more than adequately counterbalanced by their contributions.
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→ 5:48 PM, Jul 6

20th July performance of Intrapology Episode Four: You're So Jealous I Bet You Think This Episode Excludes You

We’re currently hard at work preparing our next show in the Intrapology series. You should join us for the live online interactive performance on 20th July! An audience member at our last performance said, “there isn’t another show that hits in the way this one does. Y’all are really speaking raw necessary messiness of existence and our current moment.” You’re So Jealous, I Bet You Think This Episode Excludes You
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→ 11:40 AM, Jun 30

Some really wonderful responses to the Intrapology performance on Sunday 🥰 It’s taken so much work by so many people to get here, and I’m gratified that everyone’s efforts are showing through in the final result.

→ 7:19 PM, Jun 19

“Hype and Doom are two sides of the same Bitcoin” I’ve been saving this Ruha Benjamin lecture for a day when I have the capacity to process it, and it does not disappoint youtu.be/ZseJigkUh…

→ 1:27 PM, Jun 18

Final week before the Intrapology performance on Sunday! Absolutely gorgeous live interactive performance about alien anthropologists whose worlds have broken apart. Our biggest challenge is actually reaching audiences - please share!

intrapology.com/tickets

→ 8:12 AM, Jun 9

Really keen to share Intrapology with #covidconscious people who are #stillcoviding or who face barriers to in-person theatre because #covidisnotover. Where should I be posting information about our shows? post.intrapology.com/episodes/…

→ 5:22 PM, Jun 5

2025 Access Ability Summer Showcase

Intrapology will be participating in Laura Kate Dale’s Summer Showcase event tomorrow! The aim is to ensure that disabled gamers can find out about new titles that will be accessible to them. Our format is of course super different to your typical game, even in the creative fringe of indie games, and that means we’re able to offer a different kind of accessibility. The showcase will be airing on Friday 6th June 2025 at 4pm UK, 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific.
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→ 1:10 PM, Jun 5