Media Curriculum Vitae

Lola Phoenix has over a decade of experience as a freelance writer and speaker focusing on sexuality, gender, LGBTQ history, disability, relationships, nutrition, mental health and death positivity both in writing and speaking.

Personal essays

• INTO - How Death Positivity Helps Me Mourn the Living
• INTO - Non Verbal Cues Are Crucial to Understanding Consent
• Medium - What fatphobia tells us about our fear of death
• Talk Poverty - I Couldn't Spend Money Like My Classmates. So I Tried To Eat Like Them.
• The Independent - Opinion: As an agender person, this is what going to a women's university taught me about all-women's spaces
• The Establishment - When You’re On The Autistic Spectrum, Consent Is Complicated
• The Mighty - What Society Tells Me as a Trans Disabled Person The Mighty
• LGBT History Month Magazine - Are you socially transitioned?
• Huffington Post - Journey Beyond the Binary Series
• Beyond the Binary - Lola Phoenix Would Be the Name
• Huffington Post- A Case of Cis Regret
• Vada Magazine - Are you socially transitioned into your gender role?
• Gay Star News - What do you do when you're 'not trans enough'?

Authored articles

• VICE - I Learned How to Permanently Remove Hair to Help Trans People Like Me
• Beyond the Binary - The Impact of the Gender Identity Clinic on Mental Health

Lectures and talks

The History of the Stonewall Riots Lecture

• June 2016 – LUSH Oxford Street
• Aug 2015 & Aug 2016 – BiCon
• Feb 2017 - Goldsmiths, University of London, Warwick University
• Feb 2018 - Imperial College London, Goldsmiths, Birkbeck
• 'The Stonewall Riots: How love kickstarted a revolution' - February 2018 - NerdNite
• Feb 2019 - University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, UCL
• Mar 2019 - London Pride Volunteers
• June 2019 - Science Museum Lates Sexuality

Panels and talks

• ‘The Gender Binary – and why it’s bullsh*t’ – June 2015 - NerdNite
• Queer Identity - Aderonke Apata and Lola Phoenix - Feb 2017 - Cambridge University
• Transgender Day of Visibility – March 2015 - LUSH Oxford Street
• Queer Newham - February 2019 - Queerness and Faith
• Participated in the NHS Transgender and non-binary network meeting – Dec 2015

Podcasts

• Lovecast 821 - Savage Lovecast
• Real Relationship Talk - Multiamory Podcast
• The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-Monogamy - Multiamory Podcast
• The Anxiety and Non-Monogamy Episode -They Talk Sex
• Episode 83 - Fifty Shades of Gender
• My First Time: Polyamory - VICE
• Episode 11 - Queers & Co. Podcast

Video

"Why We Don't Need Another Diversity Talk" Film for The Unmistakables

Books

• Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are 
• Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Articles

• Buzzfeed - This Is What It's Like Growing Up With No Gender
• The Independent - What's it like to be a Mx?
• The Independent - ‘How Pokemon Go is helping players tackle anxiety and depression’
• The Independent - What does non-binary mean?
• The Independent - Being non-binary in the UK 'feels like a hole in your chest where gender used to be'
• The Independent - An agender person is fundraising for breast reduction surgery after being refused by the NHS
• The Biscuit - “We’re Just Not Hung Up About Gender”: Bisexuality & Binary/Non-Binary Relationships
• Huffington Post - 8 Trans People Give Incredibly Moving Messages To Their Younger Selves
• The Gay UK - 'Not Trans Enough': The Cost of a Gendered Name
• The Daily Dot - Why this person is crowdfunding a breast reduction surgery
• VICE - Inside the Landmark, Long Overdue Study on Chest Binding
• Dazed – ‘Why does it take rape victims so long to speak out’
• The DeBrief – ‘The fascinating things I learnt about sex from an autistic person’

Magazines

• Attitude - There's No Hidden Agender
• Fabulous Magazine - The Rise of Gender Fluidity

Radio

• BBC Five Live – August 2015 – ‘Bisexuality and young people’
• BBC Radio London - October 2017 - 'Drivetime with Eddie Nestor: T-charge and pregnant people'

Television

• OMG! With Peaches Geldof – March 2011 – ‘Fame! Furries! Fetish!’