Freelance Writing: Info, Experience, Samples and Publications

My writing has appeared in numerous publications including the Guardian Comment is Free, Channel 4 News blog, The Daily Dot, xoJane, the Independent Editors’ Choice blogs, the New Statesman, AOL Money, Access Magazine, Feminist Times and Off Our Backs, and I had a series of poems published in a book. You can also read my blog posts at The F-Word and Where’s the Benefit? and listen to me talk about the language of disability on The Pod Delusion. I am also a weekly columnist at Global Comment.

My main areas of expertise in my writing are disability, health, women’s issues, and social media, SEO and digital marketing. However, I also love the challenge of getting commissions to write about any and every subject and I have created content on topics as varied as garden machinery, storage solutions, health and safety and fetish footwear.

I ghostwrite the majority of the commercial copy I produce so I can’t ‘claim’ authorship of it here. I write website copy, press releases, news stories, blog posts and case studies for numerous websites and businesses and these are mostly not listed below.

• Weekly Global Comment column
• “When physical disability and mental ill-health collide: At least we know now you’re not making it up” for Hysterical Women
• “Advice to my younger self” for Mslexia magazine, September 2017
• “Hurricane Harvey, Disabled People and Disaster Planning” for Global Comment, August 2017
• “Should the police be allowed at Pride events? I’m starting to think not” for Global Comment, August 2017
• “5 ways you stigmatise people taking psychiatric drugs” for Global Comment, July 2017
• “Can assisted suicide ever be safe when disabled people are so unequal?” for Global Comment, July 2017
• “Bijan Ebrahimi’s racist and disablist murder ‘preventable’ by UK police” for Global Comment, July 2017
• “Charlie Gard: sentenced to death” for Global Comment, June 2017
• “Grenfell Tower Fire Deaths: Yes, It’s Political” for Global Comment, June 2017
• “We’re here: LGBT issues and the UK General Election” for Global Comment, June 2017
• “Women and the UK General Election” for Global Comment, May 2017
• “Disabled people and the General Election #CripTheVoteUK” for Global Comment, May 2017
• “Do Great Britain’s local elections betray the future for the country’s leadership?” for Global Comment, May 2017
• “Death and terror for LGBT community in Chechnya” for Global Comment, April 2017
• “Pepsi, Nivea, United and Spicer: a disastrous PR week for all” for Global Comment, April 2017
• “Christians lament the lack of Jesus and excess of Muslims in chocolate eggs” for Global Comment, April 2017
• “Hard Brexit, hard times. Theresa May leads the UK into disaster” for Global Comment, March 2017
• “How learning to drive empowered my life and business” for The Sheffield Star, March 2017
• “Westminster attacks: context, fallout and consequences” for Global Comment, March 2017
• “European Employers’ Hijab Ban Ruled Legal” for Global Comment, March 2017
• “UK introduces compulsory sex education in schools. Kind of.” for Global Comment, March 2017
• “Mack Beggs and Transphobia in Sport” for Global Comment, March 2017
• “Tipping Point: Milo Yiannopoulos, and Conservatives Shifting the Goalposts” for Global Comment, February 2017
• “Conservative Christianity is making the LGB community sick” for Global Comment, February 2017
• “Le Front national: a populist neo-Nazi party” for Global Comment, February 2017
• “The betrayal of the Lib Dems is something to learn from, not repeat #Article50” for Global Comment, February 2017
• “Victim blaming, concern trolling, racism: trawling the comments on reports of sexual assault” for Global Comment, January 2017
• “The Women’s March on Washington: a lesson in intersectional failures” for Global Comment, January 2017
• “Populism is killing healthcare in the US and the UK” for Global Comment, January 2017
• “Don’t make fatphobia your new year’s resolution” for Global Comment, January 2017
• “6 big LGBTQ rights gained in 2016” for Global Comment, December 2016
• “Poverty and isolation at Christmas: kind hearts and brutal policies” for Global Comment, December 2016
• “Piers Morgan belittles rape survivors” for Global Comment, December 2016
• “Ohio’s six-week abortion ban is dangerous and immoral” for Global Comment, December 2016
• “The football sexual abuse scandal just keeps getting bigger” for Global Comment, December 2016
• “The dangers of the Trump – Farage bromance” for Global Comment, November 2016
• “12 ways to support LGBTQ friends and family in a Trump era” for Global Comment, November 2016
• “Every vote for Trump was a vote for rape culture” for Global Comment, November 2016
• “Oh, America. Don’t screw this up” for Global Comment, November 2016
• “The UK’s child refugees deserve our support” for Global Comment, October 2016
• “Ched Evans rape case: a woman’s sexual history on trial” for Global Comment, October 2016
• “Migrants in Britain are fighting back against xenophobia… and it’s inspired! #OneDayWithoutUs” for Global Comment, October 2016
• “How Polish women killed a restrictive abortion law” for Global Comment, October 2016
• “Disability Discrimination” for Pos’Ability Magazine, September 2016
• “Scrounger: disability hate speech” for Global Comment, September 2016
• “200+ prosecutions under new UK ‘revenge porn’ law” for Global Comment, September 2016
• “6 astonishingly simple ways schools can improve life for LGBT+ kids” for Global Comment, September 2016
• “May’s ‘common sense’ threats to the Human Rights Act” for Global Comment, September 2016
• “Toilets, basic rights and kids in danger” for Global Comment, August 2016
• “Disability hate leads to mass murder in Japan” for Global Comment, July 2016
• “A female prime minister is not necessarily a feminist prime minister” for Global Comment, July 2016
• “Destructive and divisive: a response to the British Brexit referendum” for Global Comment, June 2016
• “10 obscene reactions from the far right to Jo Cox’s murder” for Global Comment, June 2016
• “7 things straight people aren’t understanding about Orlando” for Global Comment, June 2016
• “7 Tips for Content Marketing” for YellowBulbs, May 2016
• “Criminalising distress: when suicide attempts lead to prison” for Global Comment, May 2016
• “What a possible Brexit could mean to Britain’s disabled people” for Global Comment, March 2016
• “Kiddle and other kid-safe internet tools don’t protect children” for Global Comment, March 2016
• “Junior Doctors Deadlock with UK Government as More Strikes Threatened” for Global Comment, February 2016
• “Top 10 Adrenaline Experiences Across the World” for DisabledGo, November 2015
• “European Mobility Week – A truly inclusive campaign?” for All Together Now, September 2015
• “Disabled Access at Music Festivals in the UK” for DisabledGo, June 2015
• “Self-hosting vs Free Hosted Blogs: Which Should You Choose?” for LCN, June 2015
• “Outrank Bad Reviews on the First Page of Google” for LCN, June 2015
• “Destination London: A Disability-Friendly Guide” for Disabled Go, June 2015
• “How to Create a Social Media Plan for Emergencies” for LCN, June 2015
• “How the Web Empowers Disabled People to Run Successful Businesses from Home” for Disabled Go, April 2015
• “User-Generated Content: How it can Benefit Your Business” for LCN, April 2015
• “Email marketing: what to test for success” for LCN, April 2015
• “Why your site needs multiple, tailored landing pages” for LCN, April 2015
• “SEO Copywriting: The Most Common Myths” for LCN, March, 2015
• “Supporting the Supporters: Working as a Disabled Occupational Therapist” for Access Magazine, March 2015
• “10 Essential Tips for Effective Content Marketing” for LCN, March 2015
• Interview on Accessible Media Inc.‘s ‘Contact’ radio show for International Women’s Day, March 2015
• “You should be watching these 5 disabled vloggers on YouTube” for The Daily Dot, March 2015
• “A step-by-step guide to conducting a content audit” for LCN, March 2015
• “Beginner’s guide to rich snippets and schema markup” for LCN, March 2015
• “Freedom of movement: the world of disability dance” for Access Magazine, February 2015
• “4 free tools to make keyword research a breeze” for LCN, February 2015
• “How apps are changing the face of accessibility” for The Daily Dot, February 2015
• “Migrating WordPress to a new host or domain in 11 simple steps” for LCN, February 2015
• “I Am Disabled and People Tell Me On a Regular Basis That They Would Rather Die Than Be Like Me” for xoJane, January 2015
• “A step too far: How retailers are losing disabled customers” for AOL Money, January 2015
• “Vary your content marketing mix to supercharge success” for LCN, January 2015
• “5 free web-browser plugins to streamline SEO” for LCN, January 2015
• “Whose streets? Our streets! Mobilizing to stop violence against disabled women” in Rain & Thunder, 2014
• “Rape is not seduction” for End Victimisation and Blame, December 2014
• “SEO essentials checklist: 23 steps to an optimised website” for LCN, December 2014
• “Why you should always use a professional email address” for LCN, December 2014
• “Light therapy: the science versus the pseudo” for Access Magazine, November 2014
• “Book Review: Dimensions by Shahidah Janjua” for  A Room Of Our Own, November 2014
• “How to Find, Contact and Engage Industry Influencers on Social Media” for LCN.com, November 2014
• “I’m on #SamaritansRadar and I wish someone had asked me first” on The Daily Dot, November 2014
• “A beginner’s guide to Twitter ads” for LCN, November 2014
• “What to do if Google detects malware on your website” for LCN, November 2014
• “8 WordPress Plugins to Streamline your Content and Simplify your Workflow” for LCN.com, November 2014
• “The Professionals: What it Takes to be a Disability Consultant” in Access Magazine, October 2014
• “Disabled Students: Your Guide to Navigating and Accessing Higher Education” for Blue Badge Company, October 2014
• “Ched Evans, Natasha Massey and This Morning: Who has the right to forgive, and what is being forgiven?” at End Victimisation and Blame, October 2014
• “Get Maximum Social Exposure for your Real-Life Event” for LCN.com, October 2014
• “Why Every Blog Should Have a Content Calendar” for LCN.com, October 2014
• “Explaining Facebook’s 20% Text Rule” for LCN.com. October 2014
• “Essential Smartphone Apps for Disabled People” for Blue Badge Company, September 2014
• “The Beginner’s Guide to Landing Page Optimisation” for LCN.com, September 2014
• “How to Optimise a Facebook Business Page for Graph Search” for LCN.com, September 2014
• “Bright, Bold and Bling: Disability Products No Longer Need to be Grey!” for Blue Badge Company, September 2014
• “No More Excuses! Accessible High Streets Benefit Everyone” for Blue Badge Company, September 2014
• “A Beginner’s Guide to YouTube Analytics” for LCN.com, September 2014
• “Top 10 Email Marketing Tips” for LCN.com, September 2014
• “I ate 2,346 Calories of Chocolate in my Sleep Last Night and I Don’t Remember Any of it” in xoJane, August 2014
• “What Feminist Times Means to Me” in Feminist Times, July 2014
• “Most Rapists and Misogynists Aren’t Ill. Don’t Call Misogynists Mad” in Feminist Times, July 2014
• “Creature Comforts: Animals as Therapy for Disabled People” in Access Magazine, April 2014
• “On the Ball: Are Sporting Venues Sufficiently Accessible?” in Access Magazine, April 2014
• “How to Create a Secure Password: Beat Heartbleed and Hackers in Four Easy Steps” at Constant Content, April 2014
• “‘Manifestly Inadequate’: austerity and cuts are punishing and devastating” in Feminist Times, also republished at A Room Of Our Own, April 2014
• “#SexIndustryWeek: Nobody’s entitled to sex, including disabled people” in Feminist Times, also republished in Feminist Current and A Room Of Our Own and translated into French, March 2014
• “March of the Food Snobs” in Disability Intersections, January 2014
• “Intrusive entitlement: disabled women as public property” in Feminist Times, January 2014
• “Coping with Christmas: a survival guide for when festivities are tough” at The F-Word, December 2013
• “Feminist connections” at The F-Word, November 2013
• “Skin Deep” in Access Magazine, September 2013
• “On the Move” in Access Magazine, August 2013
• “Armpits4August: Body hair, beauty myth and PCOS” at The F-Word, July 2013
• “Marte Dalelv: Norwegian woman convicted after reporting rape now loses job” at The F-Word and Ending Victimisation and Blame, July 2013
• “Marion Bartoli faces barrage of misogynist abuse after Wimbledon win” at The F-Word, July 2013
• “You never ask a lady her age” at The F-Word, May 2013
• “A story of hate in three parts” at The F-Word, May 2013
• “On allies, silencing and privilege” at The F-Word, March 2013
• “Showing too much” at The F-Word, March 2013
• “We saw your boobs” at The F-Word, February 2013
• “Why your contribution matters” at The F-Word, February 2013
• “More equal than others: marriage, relationships and prejudice” at The F-Word, February 2013
• “Menstruation, 1946, Disney style” at The F-Word, January 2013
• “Get an imaginary job with your imaginary wheelchair and your imaginary leg” at The F-Word, January 2013
• “Is the Guardian trolling us?” at The F-Word, January 2013
• “Creating an enriching environment for your hamster” in Pet Focus magazine, Spring 2013
• “5 Things to Do on a City Break in Sheffield” at Constant Content, December 2012
• “Drug-Free Relief for the Common Cold“ at Constant Content, December 2012 (sold)
• “Social Media Marketing for Small Business Success” at Constant Content, December 2012
• “Stigma in Crisis: mental health, fear-mongering and murder” at the New Statesman, December 2012
• “The PCC Elections: Are You Ready to Vote?” at BitchBuzz, November 2012
• “Mehdi Hasan & Abortion: When Left is Right” at BitchBuzz, October 2012
• “Disability Hate Crime Happened to Me” at Channel 4 News, October 2012
• “Bodyform and the Marketing of Periods” at BitchBuzz, October 2012
• “Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Symptoms and Treatment Options Explained” at Constant Content, October 2012
• “Online bullying is out of control” at The F-Word, September 2012
• “Do the Paralympics Put Extra Pressure on Disabled People?” at the New Statesman, August 2012
• “The Ultimate 14-Part Guide to Getting More YouTube Views” at Constant Content, August 2012
• “The Top 10 Confidence Issues Faced by Internet Marketers” at Constant Content, August 2012
• “Using whiteboards to stay organised: low tech, high satisfaction” at WordCount, August 2012
• “Bad attitudes do not cause disability any more than good attitudes guarantee health” at the Independent Editors’ Choice Blogs, August 2012
• “Policing blame: Calls for the Immediate Withdrawal of West Mercia Police’s anti-rape campaign” at The F-Word, July 2012
• “Tom Martin’s Odious Opinions Know No Limits” at The F-Word, July 2012
• “Make-Up tips for the morning after” at The F-Word, July 2012
• “Mate Crime: Learning Disability Week” at The F-Word, June 2012
• “How to Get More Followers on Twitter” at Social Media Writer, June 2012
• “How to Become an Art Therapist in the UK” at Constant Content, June 2012
• “How to run an accessible feminist event” at The F-Word, May 2012
• “Caffeine Withdrawal Symptoms” at Constant Content, May 2012
• “Freelancers: How to Get Started Without Getting Exploited” at All Freelance Writing, May 2012
• “Flying the Flag for Women in Snooker: Interview with Michaela Tabb Part 2” at The F-Word, May 2012
• “The First Lady of Snooker: An Interview with Michaela Tabb” at The F-Word, May 2012
• “5 Surprising Causes of a Sleepless Night“ at Constant Content, April 2012 (sold)
• “Pretending to be Poor” at The F-Word, April 2012
• “How to Raise Self-Confident Daughters” at Constant Content, April 2012
• “Exact Match Domains – How Important Are They for SEO?” at Constant Content, April 2012 (sold)
• “The Shy Person’s Guide to Marketing” at Constant Content, April 2012
• “Period Pain: What Are the Symptoms and How to Cope” at Constant Content, April 2012
• “Crafty Ways to Reuse Kids’ Old Clothes” at Constant Content, April 2012
• “How to Tame a New Hamster” at Constant Content, April 2012
• “Harness The Power Of Pinterest To Attract Visitors And Backlinks To Your Site” at SEO Expert For You. Also syndicated to Dig IT Mate; Triangle Local Search Solutions; Thoughts from Down Under; and Local Web Tips, March 2012, to SEO Resources; SEO Tips for Page 1 Rankings, April 2012 and to Jeff Wendland, Money Making Buzz and Trend Authority, May 2012
• “40 Days Spreads to the UK” at Feminists for Choice, March 2012
• “Easy SEO for YouTube Videos” at Constant Content, March 2012
• “If Your Teen Is on Facebook, You Should Be Too” at Constant Content, March 2012
• “Optimize Pinterest’s Potential for Search Engine Success” at Constant Content, March 2012
• “Planning Your Wedding with Pinterest” at Constant Content, March 2012.
• “Cinderella Ate My Daughters” at The F-Word, March 2012
• “Dennis Waterman: “It’s not hard for a woman to make a man hit her”” at The F-Word, March 2012
• “Pinterest for Photographers: The Skilful Self-Promotion Tool“ at Constant Content, March 2012 (sold)
• “Promote Your Brand With a Pinterest Contest” at Constant Content, March 2012.
• “Negative Attitudes towards Disability” in the Guardian Comment is Free, February 2012.
• “Are you a neighbour from hell? You might be surprised” at The F-Word, February 2012
• “The Dos and Don’ts of Getting Rid of a Hangover” at Constant Content, February 2012.
• “Facebook Fundamentals: How to Promote Your Business and Get ‘Liked’ on Facebook” at Constant Content, February 2012.
• “Facebook Hacks to Make Your Business Page Pop” at Constant Content, February 2012.
• “Is it any surprise?” at The F-Word, February 2012
• “Gay Marriage is Really Very Scary” at The F-Word, February 2012
• “Useful Eczema Creams for Toddlers, Infants and Kids” at Constant Content, February 2012.
• “How to Post Automatic Updates to Facebook” at Constant Content, February 2012.
• “Shocked headline as fat disabled woman has fun” at The F-Word, also republished at A Room Of Our Own, February 2012
• “Find Your Next Job with LinkedIn” at Constant Content, February 2012.
• “How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep and Banish Insomnia From Your Life” at Constant Content, February 2012.
• “How to Choose a Tattoo to Symbolize Your New Beginning” at Constant Content, February 2012 (sold)
• “When is an affair not an affair?” at The F-Word, February 2012
• “5 Ways to be Thoroughly Annoying on Twitter” at Constant Content, February 2012
• “Is it Worth Getting “Nofollow” Backlinks to Your Niche site“ at Constant Content, February 2012 (sold)
• “How to Choose the Right Dentist“ at Constant Content, January 2012 (sold)
• “3 Days” at The F-Word, January 2012
• “Cloud Hosting Versus Dedicated Hosting for Online Businesses“ at Constant Content, January 2012 (sold)
• “You’re Frightening Me” on Sisters of Frida and The Womankind Party, January 2012.
• “Privacy and prejudice” at The F-Word, January 2012
• “6 Clever Ways to Create Instant Income” at Constant Content, January 2012.
• “Gardening on Prescription: Digging for Mental and Physical Health” at Constant Content, January 2012
• “Natural Remedies for Endometriosis” at Constant Content, January 2012.
• “Madness Gone Politically Correct” on The Pod Delusion podcast, quoted in The Guardian, August 2011.
• “Silent Noise”, in Artemis: the noise & silence issue, Nottingham University Women’s Network, Spring 2011.
• “Devoted: A Feminist Analysis of Disability Fetishism”, in Rain and Thunder, a Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism #50, Spring 2011.
• “Activism as a Disabled Woman”, in Rain and Thunder, a Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism, Issue #45, Winter 2010.
• “Remembering Andrea Dworkin”, in Rain and Thunder, a Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism, Issue #27, Summer 2005.
• “Letter from the Future”, 1st place writing competition winner with GrownUpGreen.org.uk, April 2005
• “Mental Health Services: Addressing the End Result Rather Than the Root Causes of Patriarchy”: Off Our Backs; Jul/Aug2003, Vol. 33 Issue 7/8, p54.
• “New Online Support Groups for Voice-Hearers”, Perceptions Magazine, 2002.
• “Welcome to my World”, a series of poems, in Prozac Prose, Sheffield, 2002.
• Contributor to numerous sexual health, welfare, positive body image, eating disorder, promotional and campaigning publications distributed within the University of Sheffield Students’ Union.