hiya :-)
thanks for being here.
what is off-grid baby?
off-grid baby is a place i share stuff about the things that get me going. think madness, music, kink, ecology, radical civil engineering, apocalypse, hair, community, post-gender, faux fur, friendship & whatever’s going on in my life. i’ll also be considering the grid, what it means to be off it & why. this is inspired by living part-time on a house boat in london.
why baby? why not.
what should i expect?
expect treats from me in your inbox! (paid subscribers will get the juicy stuff because if i’m going to overshare for a living i would actually quite like to be remunerated for it. i live with chronic depression & value rest, so sometimes these offerings will be more regular than others but you know it’s always worth the wait.
why should i pay?
this newsletter, like most of my work, is mostly available for free. i want it to be accessible to everyone coz that’s the dream isn’t it. my energy & time is valuable though, so please do pay if you can. i’m also open to trades in the form of art, tattoos, clothes, guest posts, comp4comp… try me!
who are you?
i am an artist, writer, musician, dj, crisis counsellor & community worker living between a boat in east london & an apartment in brooklyn, new york. i love water, naps & dancehall. i don’t love clutter, religious dogma (least favourite dogma), or watching people cook.
writing
i have been writing publicly since 2008, usually about mental health, pop culture, social justice, race, gender, sexuality, technology & body hair. i have been published in the guardian, new york times, vice, them., buzzfeed, autostraddle, cosmopolitan & some books. from 2020-2024 i wrote a queer monthly advice column for galdem magazine, which i’m slowly republishing here. in 2017 my essay, white women drive me crazy went viral & i started taking writing a little more seriously.
mental health
in 2019 i created misery, a mental health collective & sober club night devoted to healing for queer & transgender people of the global majority based in london, but with a global reach. mental health is at the center of my work as i have a bunch of experience being really fucking sad & also i remain devoted to the otherworldliness of madness, & to imagining a society that could hold, honour & learn from it - a place where it could grow, become something else completely if it wanted to. i have worked in the emergency room of new york’s bellevue hospital as a sexual assault & domestic violence crisis counsellor. i have also worked as a social worker for a radical mental health housing provider in nyc. radical mental health care is life.
music
music is my first love & the dance floor is my happy place. genres i listen to & play out most include global club, dancehall, baile funk, afrobeat, north african percussion, bollywood melodies, french trap, qawwali & pretty much all other devotional music, trance, women with guitars. but also what is a genre. i am blessed to have performed live music & djed across the world. i’ve taken a break from djing coz i wanna play my guitar more.
