Writing

Counting Communities: Using LGBTQ+ data to take action (The Skinny, January 2022)

For Queer Communities, Being Counted Has Downsides (WIRED, December 2021)

LGBTQ equality: MSPs must act to restore Scotland’s reputation as a world leader (The Scotsman, August 2021)

The census was a landmark moment for LGBTQ people – but we’ve still got to push for full inclusion (The Independent, March 2021)

Data vandalism: Sex and the English and Welsh census (March 2021)

Teaching Guide – Constructing a Queer Population? (February 2021)

Gender by default – New Zealand’s proposed approach to collecting data about sex and gender (July 2020)

Predictably queer (April 2020)

Queer erasure in the US census (April 2020)

Myth busting – The sex question in Scotland’s 2021 census (January 2020)

Sexual orientation and the Scottish census (November 2019)

Letter against changes to the sex question in Scotland’s 2021 census (September 2019)

Data activism and the fight for social justice in Scotland (September 2019)

Scotland’s 2021 census should not ask about ‘legal sex’ (August 2019)

Looking beyond Scotland – sex and gender in the census (July 2019)

Let’s look at the evidence – the sex question in Scotland’s 2021 census (June 2019)

A non-binary sex question in Scotland’s 2021 census (April 2019)

Sex and gender in Scotland’s 2021 census (February 2019)