Select Publications
Books
, 2026, Being Patient - Close Encounters in Cancer World, NewSouth Books
, 2022, Morality, Violence, and Ritual Circumcision, Routledge, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003092377
Book Chapters
, 2024, 'Let’s Get Critical: Thinking with and beyond the ‘Dead White Men’ of Social Theory', in Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies Breaking the Silence, pp. 49 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529234398.003.0004
Journal articles
, 2026, 'Cancer in pregnancy: navigating two medical systems', Lancet, 407, pp. 1226 - 1227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(26)00465-4
, 2024, 'Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies', CRITICAL RACIAL AND DECOLONIAL LITERACIES, pp. 1 - 329
, 2022, '“Friendship, but Bloke-ier”: Can Mateship Be Reimagined as an Inclusive Civic Ideal in Australia?', Journal of Australian Studies, 46, pp. 196 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2021.1982750
Creative Written Works
, 2022, When Less is Whole, Meanjin, Melbourne University Publishing, https://meanjin.com.au/memoir/when-less-is-whole/
, 2022, The Child in Me, Meanjin, Melbourne University Press, https://meanjin.com.au/memoir/the-child-in-me/
, 2019, The Beast Is Us, University of Melbourne
, 2019, Of the name, https://meanjin.com.au/memoir/of-the-name/
, 2015, Written in My Body, Melbourne University Press
Media
, 2026, Friday essay: I had to crowdfund my cancer treatment in Australia’s ‘universal’ health‑care system, https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-i-had-to-crowdfund-my-cancer-treatment-in-australias-universal-health-care-system-284562
, 2024, There is no beginning, https://meanjin.com.au/essays/there-is-no-beginning/
, 2024, Poverty as a policy decision and the significance of collaboration to address inequalities, Ask a Social Scientist Podcast, UNSW, https://www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-architecture/our-schools/social-sciences/about-us/ask-a-social-scientist#yuvisthinaidoo
, 2023, When cancer and pregnancy intersect it is overwhelming in every way – we need better support, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/26/when-cancer-and-pregnancy-intersect-it-is-overwhelming-in-every-way-we-need-better-support
, 2023, Unable to breastfeed my baby due to cancer, I was made to feel like a failure, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/08/unable-to-breastfeed-my-baby-due-to-cancer-i-was-made-to-feel-like-a-failure
, 2021, Mateship might sound blokey, but our research shows women value it more highly than men, https://theconversation.com/mateship-might-sound-blokey-but-our-research-shows-women-value-it-more-highly-than-men-169154
Other
, 2024, Poverty as a policy decision and the significance of collaboration to address inequalities, Ask a Social Scientist Podcast, UNSW, https://www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-architecture/our-schools/social-sciences/about-us/ask-a-social-scientist#yuvisthinaidoo