I'm an Irish writer and a cultural historian of gender and sexuality. My books are Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper and Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories. I'm a BBC New Generation Thinker, the creator of Prick Up Your Ears, and the co-founder of Club Urania. Until 2021, I was a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where I now curate the Creative Careers Festival. My new book, The Invention of Man, will be published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin in 2027. 

My name is pronounced deer-mid.

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