I am a woman. I am white. I am working-class. I am also Autistic. I was born in rural England. My lineage is English and Irish, family migrating to and from Kinsale and Cork. I am a researcher and a writer. I live in a council house in Bristol. I have two Autistic sons. I have no pretense for playing the academic game. I love writing.
My work uses research, memoir, and poetry to dismantle how whiteness and class function in museums. I look at the ways whiteness adapts, absorbs, morphs and co-opts Blackness to avoid the exposure of whiteness and to maintain its mask. I am interested in interrogating whiteness and exposing it, through critique, writing, art, and curation.
I am also interested in how whiteness divides people across racial lines from class and migration narratives.
I do not want a seat at the table, I want to disrupt it, unmask it, write about it.