Publications and appearances

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Co-presenting at AusPATH 2025
Muller J, Duck-Chong E. Trans Sexual Pleasure: Serving what's been missing! Presentation at AusPATH 2025 in Hobart

Trans rights are being targeted around the world. In Australia, it means complex ID risks
Article for Crikey ($)

How can I be a good ally to trans people right now?
Article for Nonsense Newsletter

Trans Book Festival 2025
Short reading for the first Trans Book Festival

Composer Queer x Queerstories 2025
Memoir piece 'Knowing and Unknowing' adapted into composed vocal works by Leila Harris and Lillian Hearne.

Paper for LGBT Health
Simpson PL, Callander D, Haire B, Pony M, Rosenberg S, Duck-Chong L, Holt M, Cook T. Factors Associated with Transgender and Gender Diverse People's Experience of Sexual Coercion, and Help-Seeking and Wellbeing Among Victims/Survivors: Results of the First Australian Trans and Gender Diverse Sexual Health Survey. LGBT Health. 2024 Jul;11(5):370-381. doi: 10.1089/lgbt.2023.0146. Epub 2024 Feb 1. PMID: 38301144.

Trans Sexual podcast
Appearance on Trans Sexual with Juniper Muller - listen

Paper for Culture, Health & Sexuality
Newman, C. E., Smith, A. K. J., Harvey, S., & Duck-Chong, E. (2023). Gender diversity and social change: transgressions, translations, transformations. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 25(12), 1758–1761. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2023.2277606

Panel Discussion: Understanding and affirming non-binary people: A lived expertise panel discussion
AusPATH 2023; Statement read out at panel due to inability to attend.

Write Around The Murray 2023
Interview with Paul Dalgarno about 'Prudish Nation', and an installation of the Love Letters podcast. - watch

‘COVID still exists: When is the queer party no longer the protest?’
Article for Archer Magazine

Queer Ideas Forum for World Pride 2023
Reading for the Archer Magazine World Pride event

Write Around The Murray 2023
Panel for the collection 'Nothing to Hide' with Yves Rees, Sam Elkin, Jack Nicholls, and Anastasia Le - watch

Sapphic Literary Lounge
Host of the Sapphic Literary Lounge hosted by Woolhara Council

Paper for Sexuality Research and Social Policy
Smith AKJ, Davis MDM, MacGibbon J, Broady TR, Ellard J, Rule J, Cook T, Duck-Chong E, Holt M, Newman CE. Engaging Stigmatised Communities in Australia with Digital Health Systems: Towards Data Justice in Public Health. Sex Res Social Policy. 2023 Feb 6:1-12. doi: 10.1007/s13178-023-00791-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36776992; PMCID: PMC9900552.

Melbourne Writers Festival
Up late and You're Too Much sessions

Watching Things Grow
Story in the collection 'Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia' published by Allen & Unwin

A tapestry of transphobia: A review of Shon Faye's 'The Transgender Issue; An Argument For Justice'
Review for Australian Book Review ($)

Conference paper presented at AusPATH 2022
Duck-Chong, Liz & Cook, Teddy & Clay, Taz & Keeffe, Sophie & Tsao, Leo. (2022). The role of lived expertise in trans and gender diverse health messaging.

Sydney Writers Festival
Interview with Torrey Peters about her book 'Detransition Baby' - listen

Innies and Outies episode: Coming Out Online
Speaker for ABC: Innies and Outies

Paper for International Journal of Transgender Health
Holt M, Broady T, Callander D, Pony M, Duck-Chong L, Cook T, Rosenberg S. Sexual experience, relationships, and factors associated with sexual and romantic satisfaction in the first Australian Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health Survey. Int J Transgend Health. 2022 Jan 5;24(1):38-48. doi: 10.1080/26895269.2021.2016540. PMID: 36713145; PMCID: PMC9879190.

Non-monogamy and intimacy: A slut for friendship
for Archer Magazine

Summer! I Hardly Even Know Her.
Reading of the piece Dead Bedrooms

Collaboritive writing for the Sex Toys chapter of the Pussypedia Book
Book for Pussypedia

Out for Australia
An Out For Australia 30 Under 30 winner for 2021

Paper for PLOS One
Rosenberg S, Callander D, Holt M, Duck-Chong L, Pony M, Cornelisse V, Baradaran A, Duncan DT, Cook T. Cisgenderism and transphobia in sexual health care and associations with testing for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections: Findings from the Australian Trans & Gender Diverse Sexual Health Survey. PLoS One. 2021 Jul 21;16(7):e0253589. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253589. PMID: 34288911; PMCID: PMC8294496.

The World Is Better Because Of The Courage And Power Of Trans Kids
Article for Junkee

My Experience Coming Out As Trans Makes Me Feel Lucky, But Being Loved Shouldn’t Involve Luck
Opinion for Pedestrian

Paper for Transgender Health
Callander D, Newman CE, Holt M, Rosenberg S, Duncan DT, Pony M, Timmins L, Cornelisse V, Duck-Chong L, Wang B, Cook T. The Complexities of Categorizing Gender: A Hierarchical Clustering Analysis of Data from the First Australian Trans and Gender Diverse Sexual Health Survey.Transgender Health, 2020; online first. DOI: 10.1089/trgh.2020.0050.

What Does Trans Community Mean To Trans People?
Article for Junkee

Twitter
Queer joy in digital spaces

The Joy Of Finding Sisterhood In The Trans Sex Worker Community
Interview for Junkee

Paper for Health Sociol Review
Newman CE, Smith AKJ, Duck-Chong E, Vivienne S, Davies C, Robinson KH, Aggleton P. Waiting to be seen: social perspectives on trans health. Health Sociol Rev. 2021 Mar;30(1):1-8. doi: 10.1080/14461242.2020.1868900. PMID: 33622203.

The Importance of Finding Spaces For Trans Joy
Article for Junkee

Bodies of water: who is welcome in women's spaces?
Article for The Guardian

Mark Latham's bill seeks to ensure trans and queer children remain in the closet
Article for The Guardian

Paper for UNSW, Commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Health
Newman C, MacGibbon J, Smith, AKJ, Broady T, Lupton D, Davis M, Bear B, Bath N, Comensoli D, Cook T, Duck-Chong E, Ellard J, Kim J, Rule J, & Holt M (2020). Understanding trust in digital health among communities affected by BBVs and STIs in Australia. Sydney: UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health.

TransHub
Lead writer and designer from 2019-2023

Crosses, Flags, Arches; an unofficial eulogy for Ronald McDonald
Essay for Meanjin

The Last Decade Has All Been About Iconic Queer Women
Article for Junkee

Scarleteen birthday card
Article for Scarleteen

‘Wheelie Bin Juice’
Poem for Overland

Archer Asks: Raquel Willis, executive editor of Out Magazine
Interview for Archer Magazine

NYWF
Readings including 'My Problematic Fav' and 'Boomer Porn'

As the private lives of trans people are dragged into public debate, it’s time for facts
Opinion for The Guardian

Panel discussion at Joint Sexual Health and HIV&AIDS Conference (ASHM) 2019
Cook, T, Rosenberg, S, Duck-Chong, L, Page, J, Schweizer, K, Smith, Aunty V, & Van Hale, L. (2019). Stories from the trenches: Meaningful involvement of trans & gender diverse communities in the HIV response. Symposium presented at the Joint Australasian Sexual Health and HIV&AIDS Conference, Perth, Western Australia

Conference paper presented at Joint Sexual Health and HIV&AIDS Conference (ASHM) 2019
Duck-Chong L, Cook T, Holt M, Pony M, Vlahakis E, Rosenberg S, Wiggins J, Cornelisse V, Callander D (2019) A body I am comfortable with’: the interplay of hormones and sex for trans and gender diverse people. Paper presented at the Joint Australasian Sexual Health and HIV&AIDS Conference, Perth, Western Australia

We Created A Wholesome Alternative To ‘The Australian’s Trashfire Gender Column
Article for Junkee

Becoming Out: a totally non-exhaustive, step by step guide to coming out
Article for Scarleteen

The Transphobic ‘Anti-PC Pack’ Proves Conservatives Don’t Actually Give A Fuck About Kids
Article for Pedestrian

Is it safe to hand your banking passwords over to finance apps?
Article for Crikey

Polyamory and Non-monogamy panel hosted by Archer Magazine
Speaker for The Wheeler Centre

Paper for Sexually Transmitted Infections 2019
Callander D, Cook T, Cornelisse V, Pony M, Duncan D, Wiggins J, Vlahakis E, Duck-Chong L, Rosenberg S, & Holt M. (2019). O11.4 Trans and gender diverse people’s experiences of sexual health care are associated with sexual health screening uptake. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 95,A64.

tectonic girl
Poetry for Concrete Queers (Issue 5)

partial memories of friday night
Poetry for Concrete Queers (Issue 5)

Stigma and Shame: Accessing Healthcare as a Transgender or Gender-Diverse Person
Article for Pussypedia

Emerging Writers Festival
"Freelance for life" panel for the Emerging Writers Festival 2019

‘Trans women’
Chapter in Sam George-Allen's 2019 book Witches: What Women Do Together published by Penguin

Queer Thinking @ Mardi Gras
reading as part of the Trans Stories event

Queer Thinking @ Mardi Gras
After Safe Schools panel

Clear History: Digital Minimalism and KonMari-ing the Cloud
Memoir for Kill Your Darlings ($)

When the personal ID becomes political
Article for Crikey

Four Crucial Queer Survival Tips for 2019
Article for Scarleteen

Paper for The Kirby Institute
Callander D, Wiggins J, Rosenberg S, Cornelisse VJ, Duck-Chong E, Holt M, Pony M, Vlahakis E, MacGibbon J, & Cook T. (2019). The 2018 Australian trans and gender diverse sexual health survey: Report of findings. Sydney, NSW: The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney.

Immigration Museum
Item and short audio story exhibited at the Love Exhibition at Immigration Museum

Queerstories
Reading of the story ‘Left Wanting’

Passing
Poetry for Cordite

Trans people won't be erased, we can't be
Opinion for SBS

Rapid-onset gender dysphoria' is a poisonous lie used to discredit trans people
Opinion for The Guardian

Crikey roundtable: what’s the harm of blocking LGBTIQ students and teachers?
Opinion for Crikey

NYWF
Readings including 'Ana Pascal'

Passing as What? All About Passing Privilege
Article for Scarleteen

On deadnaming Chelsea Manning
Opinion for SBS

Knowing and Unknowing
Story in the Queerstories book published by Hachette

Why Germaine Greer is not entitled to a place at the Brisbane Writers festival
Opinion for SBS

Let's Talk About Girldick
Article for Scarleteen

How a US law broke the internet (and what that means for Australia)
Article for Crikey

We Need to Talk About Tom Ballard
Essay for Meanjin

Panel discussion with Jack Halberstam, Christy Newman and Teddy Cook
Speaker for UNSW Center for Ideas

Finding the joy - genderqueer icon CN Lester on thriving in the face of negativity
Interview for SBS

Australia’s gender recognition laws are a mess. It’s time for radical change.
Article for Crikey

Use Your Words: The Language We Use to Describe Ourselves Matters
Article for Scarleteen

Rethinking How We Talk About Sex and Gender
Article for Scarleteen

Fiction and Feeling's The Pussy Parlour newsletter
Written for 'The Pussy Parlour' online newsletter as part of the launch of Becoming Dangerous

SAMAG
Speaker at SAMAG's 'Disarming Sexism in the Arts: #Metoo, but what next?' panel, at Sydney Opera House - watch

The banality of discrimination: how bureaucratic inertia is failing non-binary people
Article for Crikey

Overland
Review of the 2018 Trans Stories event

ABC's 40th Anniversary Mardi Gras magazine
for the ABC's Mardi Gras 40th anniversary magazine

The trailblazing, opera singing queer icon you never knew you needed
Interview for SBS

bleeding in a foreign city
Poetry for Rabbit Poetry ($)

The Period of Choice
Essay for Meanjin

seeing elizabeth
Memoir for self published

#MeToo, but now what?
Article for Overland

Kill Your Darlings
Review of 'Hir' at Belvoir Street

A Definitive Ranking Of The Rock's Best Films
Article for Junkee

The tragedy of silenced conservatives: an interview with the rainbow gestapo
Humour for Crikey

Moonless
Short story for Gravel mag

Why Malcolm Turnbull's attack on privacy is a feminist issue
Article for Sydney Morning Herald

Non-hierarchical polyamory: Stepping off the relationship escalator
Article for Archer Magazine

Shake the Ghosts: A conversation with Ivan Coyote
Interview for Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings
Review of 'The Trouble with Harry' at Siren Theatre Company

The problem with how transgender beauty is celebrated on the pages of Vogue
Opinion for Sydney Morning Herald

Knowing and Unknowing
Reading for Queerstories

7 reveal parties more fun than gender reveal parties
Humour for Self published

If it's still taboo to date transgender people, how far have we really come?
Opinion for Sydney Morning Herald

‘a private email’
Blackout poem for pnk prl

Why it’s time for parents to re-think declaring their children’s gender
Opinion for Sydney Morning Herald

A look inside the false church of tolerance
Opinion for Star Observer

R Is For Representation
Article for F is for Feminism