ABOUT ME

I’m a writer, editor and journalist based in south London (but from south Wales, crucially) specialising in music, pop culture, sex and global youth politics.

I have over a decade of experience in digital and print media, championing countercultural storytelling and fun-first editorial. I’ve worked as an editor at VICE, Noisey, Huck Magazine and Crack Magazine, and my writing has been widely published by The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Esquire, CREEM, Vulture, New Statesman, Dazed and The Sunday Times among others. In 2016, I was nominated as Culture Writer of the Year at the Words by Women Awards, which I gracelessly lost.

In 2010 I graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing. After that, I completed a MA in International Journalism at Cardiff University, graduating with distinction. My thesis was on the use of satire and political humour by oppositional groups as a method of nonviolent resistance, looking at conflicts in Syria, Egypt, Serbia and Russia as case studies. This paragraph is here to couch my unusual array of ‘beats’ in some kind of context while also serving as a reminder of how far I have fallen, intellectually.

I’m currently working on my first book Tell All Your Friends: A Cultural History of Mainstream Emo 2000-2013, to be published in 2025 by Hachette US.

In the meantime you can find my introduction to Amy Winehouse in Naomi Parry’s beautiful book Beyond Black.

I also write Huck’s monthly culture newsletter, which you can sign up to here.

And if you really love me you’ll subscribe to Gabrielle, my Substack about desire.