For nearly two decades, I’ve been writing random articles published in a variety of newspapers: starting as a teenager with The Record (New Jersey, USA), and then for The Harvard Gazette, The Huffington Post, and finally to outlets like The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Mail on Sunday, The Belfast Telegraph, LitHub, and many others.
My most recent writing focuses on sexual assault — cultural attitudes toward the crime; representations in film and popular culture; and problems with the approach of legal, judicial, and other public systems towards rape. While this was sparked by my own experience as a rape victim, I’m also interested in a much broader investigation of the crime and how it is handled by contemporary society. I’ve been interviewed on the topic by the BBC, RTE, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky News, London Live, The Guardian, The Chicago Tribune, The Irish Times, The Daily Mail, The Independent, among others.
However, I still enjoy travel and nature writing — and actively welcome the chance to write about topics other than rape! Some of my articles and blog posts are available online and can be read here:
Essay for CrimeReads: Choosing our MeToo Heroes: Journalists or Survivors? – Dec 2022
Essay for heard: The Emotional Labour of Dealing with the Media – Aug 2022 (This essay won a Write to End Violence Against Women Award 2022 in journalism)
Essay for Bustle: Why We Still Need to Hold the Film Industry to Account – July 2022
Essay for Grazia ‘I Googled my rapist & was horrified by what I found’ – June 2022
Opinion piece for iPaper on sexual assault, workplaces & compassionate leave – June 2022
Essay for besea.n on race, complicity & working in the film industry – June 2022
Review of Cuties for Sight & Sound – Sept 2020
Feature on I May Destroy You for Sight & Sound – Aug 2020
A Pocket Guide to Writing Through Trauma – June 2020
Essay for The Belfast Telegraph on motherhood after rape – Jan 2020
Essay for Wasafiri for their ‘Writing Britain Now’ issue – Oct 2019
Essay for Electric Lit on being an Asian-American author published internationally – May 2019
Opinion piece for The Metro on rape jokes – May 2019
Opinion piece for The Stylist on traveling alone and violence against women – Dec 2018
Opinion piece for The Guardian on the Nobel Peace Prize & #MeToo one year on – Oct 2018
Opinion piece for The Metro on teaching sexual consent in school – July 2018
Essay for The Dark Mountain Project on ‘Rewilding the Novel‘ – July 2018
Essay for Goop on egg-freezing after sexual assault – June 2018
Article for The Belfast Telegraph on the anniversary of my rape – April 2018
Article for LSE Review of Books on influential books about sexual violence – Feb 2018
Article for Journal.ie on #MeToo & social media – 16 November 2017
Opinion piece for The Guardian on #MeToo & the film industry- 6 November 2017
Article for LitHub on fiction writing & cinema – 18 September 2017
Article for The Times on writing Dark Chapter – 29 June 2017
Article for The Pool on humanising my rapist for Dark Chapter – 31 May 2017
Article on my experience of rape and the journey towards writing Dark Chapter for YOU Magazine (Mail on Sunday) – 14 May 2017
Article on Hollywood’s Awards Season Obsession with Rape for Media Diversified – 25 February 2017
Article for The Conversation on the Stanford sexual assault (republished by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Independent, TIME, Raw Story, Scroll, et al, with more than 93,000 people around the world reading it) – 9 June 2016
Blog post for Polis: Journalism and Society at the LSE – 11 March 2016
Blog post for the Mitchell Scholars: US-Ireland Alliance blog – 16 June 2015
Semi-regular articles for The Huffington Post (US and UK site) – from April 2014 to present
Article in The Belfast Telegraph (published anonymously) – 10 September 2009