About

I’m a gay trans man community educator, organiser, and writer based in London.

Why learn with me?

I’m passionate about building solidarity with LGBTQ people via antiracist, community-focused, trauma-informed teaching. I offer trans and LGBTQ trainings, consultancy, and facilitation drawing on my backgrounds in frontline LGBTQ health support, queer history, and community organising.

If you’re feeling anxious, sceptical, or just unsure about how LGBTQ topics relate to your life or workplace – you’re exactly the person I want to hear from! I don’t believe in stupid questions or being the ‘PC police’. Instead, I use history, current events, pop culture, and the experiences and skills of everyone in the room to create conversation, have fun, and learn together.

I work with people and organisations in the education, arts, healthcare, trade union, heritage, legal, small business, retail, transport, local government, and community support sectors. I especially value collaborations with people far removed from the corporate EDI world, and have done some of my most meaningful work with unpaid carers, bar staff, sex workers, shelter residents, and youth groups. I also offer free and low-cost mentoring and facilitation for activists and grassroots groups, and am always open to collaborating on movement-building skillshares.

With queer and trans people under threat on the world stage, it’s more important than ever that we build community education about LGBTQ experiences. Get in touch to discuss how we can work together.

My background

I have over a decade’s experience as a health, housing, food, and migrant justice worker in the UK, working in grassroots activism, the UK charity sector, and international coalition-building across Europe and North America. I co-founded Oxford Mutual Aid, a Covid-19 community response that’s now Oxfordshire’s largest provider of emergency food. I also set up the UK’s first professional trans health advocacy service, based at Spectra in London, which helps other trans people access healthcare, education, crisis support, and information. I write an advice column as ‘Auntie Lou’ for Irresistible Damage, an online magazine for gay and bi transmasculine people.

I hold a doctorate in modern history from the University of Oxford, where I worked as the university’s first named lecturer in LGBTQ history and co-developed some of the UK’s first higher education spaces for interdisciplinary queer research and trans history pedagogies. I research and teach histories of war, queerness, and race in the 19^th and 20^th century British, French, and American empires. I’ve also loved working in public history as a tour guide and heritage consultant, and have experience as a breaking news journalist, classically trained actor, and suicide prevention worker.

I’ve worked as a freelance trainer in LGBTQ education since 2020, with clients including the National Archives, Glyndebourne, the National Survivor User Network, Mind, the UK Civil Service, the National Education Union, the NHS, grassroots activist groups, and many schools, universities, mental health charities, and domestic violence refuges.

I’m always looking for new ways to collaborate – get in touch today!