You can find all my popular articles and selected media appearances here.
I speak regularly about the politics of policing across a diversity of media platforms. This includes TV, radio, and print interviews, and working with investigative journalists. Coverage often links to a legal case I won in 2021 against the London Metropolitan Police for 'sexist, derogatory, and unacceptable' language used when they arrested and strip-searched me in 2013.
Feel free to contact me for comment on policing-related stories.
popular articles
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![CCTV footage of Stoke Newington custody suite during Koshka's detention. Subtitle shows words of custody sergeant: 'any means necessary, treat her like a terrorist, I don't care'.]()
The Met Just Apologised After Strip-Searching Me. I Don't Believe a Word of It. (2022)
The police’s dismay is performative – they knew exactly what they were doing.
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![Blue poster with silhouette of a police officer. Text reads: What's your name? Where are you going? Why am I doing this? Will you ever forgive me?]()
It's Time to Defund the Police (2022)
My abuse at their hands was Orwellian – and totally routine.
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![Person holding a banner with words 'DEFUND THE POLICE'. Text on black background reads: Against the carceral state. A Verso roundtable. Part 1.]()
More Policing Won't Stop Gendered Violence (2021)
Police do not prevent gendered violence, but instead reinforce the conditions for its existence and often perpetrate it directly, argue KATHARINE JENKINS and Koshka Duff.
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![BLM protesters blocking an intersection. Placard reads: Defund the police!]()
Would 'Defund the Police' Work in the UK? (2020)
‘Defund the police’ has emerged as a central demand amid a spectacular eruption of collective action against lethal police violence in the United States. As UK Black Lives Matter activists take inspiration, questions are being asked about how this demand – forged in the long history of the US prison abolition movement – can gain purchase in Britain.
With TOM KEMP. Novara Media, 13 June 2020.
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![Blue poster with silhouette of police officer. Text reads: STOP harassing people; SEARCH for meaning; QUITE your job.]()
Why Stop and Search Should Be Abolished (2020)
In this article, TOM KEMP and I argue that the perennial and widely-recognised problems with stop and search […] cannot be adequately understood and addressed except through an abolitionist lens.
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![Connor and Koshka sitting side by side drinking bottles of beer with Filipino liberation artwork in background.]()
A World Without Police (2020)
We must abolish police to create a more equal society.
Huck Magazine, 12 October 2020. Reprinted 2021 in Ecohustler as ‘A World Without Police’ and DOPE Magazine as ‘Abolishing the Police’..
tv & radio
Links to selected video and radio interviews:
Sky News (in connection with HM Inspectorate of Constabulary report into police vetting procedures), 2 November 2022
Channel 4 News, 1 February 2022
Long interview on Radio 4's Women's Hour, also featured on BBC News, 29 January 2022
LBC shows with Natasha Devon, 29 January 2022, and Shelagh Fogarty, 26 January 2022
Novara Media's Tyskie Sour, 26 January 2022
I have also appeared on Al Jazeera, ITV regional and national, Radio 4’s World at One with Sarah Montegue, BBC Radio London’s breakfast show with Eddie Nestor, and more.
Find more in-depth interviews in VIDEOS & PODCASTS
Print media
My interviews/features include:
MIRREN GIDDA & FIONA HAMILTON, ‘Met Police Has Spent At Least £138M on Legal Battles Since 2016’, Liberty Investigates in partnership with The Times, 31 July 2023
MIRREN GIDDA & TOBI THOMAS, ‘Black Girls Nearly Three Times More Likely To Be Subjected To Most Invasive Strip-Search’, Liberty Investigates in partnership with The Guardian and Channel 4 News, 6 April 2023
DAMIEN GAYLE, ‘Met apologises to woman for “sexist, derogatory” language in strip-search’, The Guardian, 24 January 2022
Features in Glamour, 4 February 2022; The Mirror, 4 February 2022; Daily Mail, 28 January 2022.
