PUBLICATIONS
Scroll down to view a selection of my published works related to anthropology, history, LGBTQ+ issues, feminism, and other topics. I have also published poetry.
My work is written in Bokmål, Nynorsk, and English.
I prefer not to self-publish. However, some texts that are thematically outside the scope of other established platforms have been published on my personal WordPress site called Miriams potetåker.
Please note that everything prior to 2018 was published under my birth name, and texts published in the period from 2018 to September 2024 - prior to my coming-out as nonbinary - refer to me as a binary trans woman.
BOOKS
EN BALANSERT DEBATT (2022)
Poetry collection published by the queer publisher littMELK, Oslo, Norway. Graphic framework designed by Martine Næss Johansen; foreword by Jeanette Solstad Remø. ISBN 9788269103250
En balansert debatt was believed to be the first poetry collection in Norway written by a trans woman.
CROSSING THE RIVER (2018)
Transgender coming-out memoir published by Langaa RPCIG, Bamenda, Cameroon. ISBN 9789956550753
E-book available from Google Books.
Recommended by Chatham University's Jeannie King Mellon Library.
Recommended by the University of Michigan Library.
Recommended by the Harford Community College Library.
Recommended by Mensa Norway.
GORILLADRAKT PÅBUDT (2016)
Illustrated poetry collection published by Bokforlaget Publica, Sandnes, Norway. ISBN 9788282514972
LANDSTRYKEREN (2014)
Illustrated poetry collection published by Bokforlaget Publica, Sandnes, Norway. ISBN 9788282513586
FRISK SOM EN FISK (2013)
Illustrated poetry collection published by Bokforlaget Publica, Sandnes, Norway. ISBN 9788282513258
OTHER POETRY
"Emil Johansens vise" (15 November 2024). Miriams potetåker, standalone poem.
"Ei jente fra Marienlyst" (12 November 2024). Miriams potetåker, standalone poem.
"Sanatuul/Ordvind" (2024). Finnkultur 2/2024, p. 10. Bilingual poem with one version in Forest Finn and one in Norwegian; probably the first-ever published text in a revitalised form of the Forest Finn language.
"Sjakk matt" (2023). In: B.-I. H. Lundqvist, L. Lundqvist, & J. Olsson (Eds.), FEMINIQA – Berättelser om motstånd
(p. 306). Skellefteå, Sweden: Förlag DIKKO. ISBN 9789152745526.
"Sånn som deg" (2023). In: B.-I. H. Lundqvist, L. Lundqvist, & J. Olsson (Eds.), FEMINIQA – Berättelser om motstånd (p. 213). Skellefteå, Sweden: Förlag DIKKO. ISBN 9789152745526.
"Flight" (2023). In: K. Millar, & R. Sen (Eds.), Queers in Quarantine (pp. 93-94). Oslo: Mohini Books.
This poem was favourably reviewed by Chintan Girish Modi in Hindustan Times, 28 July 2023.
"Litt mindre skummelt" (2023). MensaNytt 1/2023, pp. 28-29.
"Hat" (26 October 2021). Maddam, standalone poem.
"Hele tiden" (5 July 2021). Maddam, standalone poem.
"(Ikke) kall meg en mann" (6 April 2021). Maddam, standalone poem.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES:
With Sonia Muñoz Llort: "Normkritiske verktøy for å inkludere transpersoner: Incompleteness og anarkafeministisk
interseksjonalitet" (2023). Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning (The Journal of Gender Research) 47(1), pp. 6-18.
DOI: 10.18261/tfk.47.1.2
"Fanget i fortiden? Majoritetsbefolkningens syn på rom (sigøynere) og deres plass i samtiden" (2017). Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift (Norwegian Journal of Anthropology) 28(2), pp. 118-132.
DOI: 10.18261/issn.1504-2898-2017-02-04
BOOK REVIEWS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS:
With Francis B. Nyamnjoh: Review of The Material Subject: Rethinking Bodies and Objects in Motion (2022). Africa 92(1), pp. 164-166. DOI: 10.1017/S0001972021000772
Review of #RhodesMustFall (2019). Africa Spectrum 54(1), pp. 87-89. DOI: 10.1177/0002039719848508
Review of Intimate strangers (2018). Anthropology Southern Africa 41(4), pp. 338-339. DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2018.1542325
SELECTED ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
"Incompleteness and the compassionate monster" (22 November 2024). Miriams potetåker.
"Hvithet i grenseland" (7 November 2024). Miriams potetåker.
"Kjønn er vakkert, kjønn er glede: Å finne seg selv som ikkebinær" (25 October 2024). Miriams potetåker.
"– Jeg synes matlaging er gørr kjedelig. Og det synes jeg transdebatten er også" (7 August 2024). Blikk.
"En gammel skogfinsk slekt fra Oslo" (2024). Finnkultur 2/2024, pp. 35-41. Torsby, Sweden: Solør-Värmland Finnkulturforening.
"Bedre neste gang: Om feil, tilgivelse og den gode samtalen" (24 April 2024). Miriams potetåker.
"Trans, autist og optimist" (14 April 2024). Blikk.
"Viktigheten av ydmykhet" (7 April 2024). Magasin DIKKO.
"Bygdesamer innerst i Trondheimsfjorden: En slektshistorisk oppdagelsesreise" (11 March 2024). Miriams potetåker.
"The Raggy Dolls: Glede og samhold i utenforskap" (11 March 2024). Miriams potetåker.
"«Mongolene» som forsvant: En liten kildestudie av rasebiologiens syn på skogfinnene fra 1775 til 1979" (2023). Finnkultur 3/2023 (pp. 14-22). Torsby, Sweden: Solør-Värmland Finnkulturforening. ISSN 0800-4242
"Reiser i identitet og kamp: Min historie som aktivist" (2023). In: B.-I. H. Lundqvist, L. Lundqvist, & J. Olsson (Eds.), FEMINIQA – Berättelser om motstånd (pp. 23-43). Skellefteå, Sweden: Förlag DIKKO. ISBN 9789152745526
"Håpet er det viktigste vi har" (24 July 2023). Blikk.
"Jeg skal gå i Pride-paraden" (16 June 2023). Blikk.
"Svart trekant for en ny tid" (3 May 2023). Blikk.
With Vesle Krey and Kristina Zimmer Athanasiou: "Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad redder liv" (1 March 2023). Blikk.
"En utredning av opphavet til Anne Olsdatter (1777-1871) i Hansstua Løken i Elverum". Tjukke Slekta 3/2022 (delayed publication), pp. 42-52.
"India – en del av vår historie" (21 February 2023). Magasin DIKKO.
With Philip Rynning Coker: "Hvem er våre kjemper?" (2 February 2023). Trønderdebatt.
"Eufori og håp for et nytt år" (2 January 2023). Blikk.
"Å leve og blomstre er en radikal handling" (2022). Fett 4/2022, pp. 15-17.
With Vesle Krey: "– Skeive nevrodivergente er gjemt i fullt åsyn" (21 November 2022). Blikk.
"Meningen med kjønn: Om biologi, symbolikk og virkelighetsfortolkning i transdebatten" (13 June 2022). Fett.
"Skeive skogfinner: Ulos kaapista!" (13 June 2022). Blikk.
"– Hva er galt med ordet «transe»?" (3 May 2022). Blikk.
"Midt i historien: Om skeiv kamp i vår tid". (25 April 2022). Blikk.
"Transsynlighet - hva, hvordan, og for hvem?" (31 March 2022). Blikk.
"Det er jo mitt folk!" (2 March 2022). Magasin DIKKO.
"Hva er en transaktivist?" (21 February 2022). Blikk.
"La oss leve" (31 January 2022). Blikk.
"Å synliggjøre en usynlig dobbeltminoritet: Romske LHBT-personer i Norge" (30 January 2022). Magasin DIKKO.
"Ord som våpen" (20 November 2021). Blikk. A piece written for the 2021 Transgender Day of Remembrance.
"Ingen er 'bare menneske'" (18 October 2021). Blikk.
"Hvorfor er jeg glad for å være trans" (16 August 2021). Blikk.
"- Denne går til deg som bare vil leve et helt vanlig liv, i fred, som deg selv" (14 July 2021). Blikk.
With Thea-Caroline Zwahlen, Oliver Johan Finden, Andrea Vik, and Sophie Post: "For us, the problem isn't knowing the rules, it's the rules themselves: Transnational LGBTQIA+ couples share their experiences of the pandemic" (23 June 2021). The Norwegian Youth Network for Sexual Politics.
"God Pride! Jeg håper du får puste rolig" (2 June 2021). Blikk.
With Philip Rynning Coker: "Debatter på villspor" (19 April 2021). Dagsavisen.
With Karoline Skarstein and Luca Dalen Espseth: "Er det autoritært å ønske å stå opp mot hets?" (9 April 2021). Stavanger Aftenblad.
"Ingen andre kan fortelle deg hvem DU er" (24 October 2020). Pasientorganisasjonen for kjønnsinkongruens (PKI).
"ǁHui !Gaeb: Den usynlige historien om Cape Towns urfolk" (16 October 2020). Nettmagasinet Afrika.no.
"Trans people have been hit hard by Covid-19 disruptions – here is why" (9 June 2020). Corona Times.
"Om likeverd og søsterskap" (21 January 2020). Dagsavisen.
"Rolene Miller’s Womandla! Transformation through determination" (2019). Bookmark 96, p. 24. South African Booksellers Association.
"Marie Elisabeth Lind (1762-1829): En slavehandlerdatter fra Christianshavn" (2018). Slægt & Staun 38(4), pp. 19-27.
Copenhagen, Denmark: Greater Copenhagen Genealogical Society. ISSN 0107-539X
With Terje Paulsberg:
"Speiding i Gjøvik i 95 år" (2011). In Svendsen, Anne-Lise (Ed.), Årbok for Gjøvik/Tverrdalene 2011 (pp. 69-87).
Gjøvik, Norway: Gjøvik Historical Society. ISBN 9788290323146
"Jeg, en prøvekanin" (15 August 2009). VG.
"Kampen er ikkje over!" (20 November 2008). Lillehammer Byavis. My first feminist opinion piece.
ACADEMIC DISSERTATIONS
Being and Belonging among White English-speaking South Africans (2020). Doctoral thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Bare på besøk? Rom (sigøynere) i det norske fellesskapet (2016). MPhil thesis, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway. One of three winners of Kunnskap Oslo's prize for "Best Master's thesis on Oslo-related topics in 2016" (awarded in 2017).
Community resources as engines of development: A field study from the Fiji Islands (2013). BA thesis in Development Studies, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, Norway.