Announcing the Second Queer Internet Studies Symposium
I’m excited to announce that the second Queer Internet Studies (QIS2) Symposium, which I am again blissfully organizing with the fabulous Jessa …
Notes from/on C. Riley Snorton’s “DeVine’s Cut” UMass Lecture (12/1/16)
Tweets from Snorton 12/1/16 lecture: C. Riley Snorton interrogate the absent presence of PhillipDeVine from the public memory of the Humboldt killings and the nationalnarration of Brandon Teena, as a transgender martyr. See more here: https://www.umass.edu/wgss/event/c-riley-snorton-devines-cut.
In Sociological Review: We Never Left Laramie: White LGBTQ Consciousness Post-Election 2016
Immediately after the election, my colleague/friend Emma Jackson at Goldsmiths asked to be part of The Sociological Review‘s rapid response collection to …
U.S. National Park Service Essays on LGBTQ History Released
WOOHOO! The LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History theme study has been released by the …
Publication OA: Geographical Imagination in Forthcoming _Intl Encyc of Geography_
I recently made my article, “Size Matters to Lesbians Too: Queer Feminist Interventions into the Scale of Big Data,” public via the …
Publication OA: Size Matters to Lesbians Too in Forthcoming _Professional Geographer_
My. Best. Journal article title. Ever. Is finally ready to share. It’s also my favorite publication to date and I’ve loaded it …
Interviewed for “Home Games: The Strange Overlapping Borders of Sports Fandom”
Rick Paulas is a fantastic journalist who is as enthralled with environmental psychology as I am. We recently spoke about the way …
Presenting at #TransStudies Conf Tomorrow (9/10)
I’m already in Tucson taking in the first ever and utterly incredible Trans Studies Conference. My paper on the my #ftm and …
Publication: Area article finally in print!
48 (3): 262–70. A year and two weeks ago, I posted the text of “Crossing Over into Territories of the Body: Urban …
Publication: Review of “Safe Space” for Gender, Place and Culture
My review of Christina Hanhardt‘s utterly delicious Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence is available online and below …
Publication: Dyked New York chapter in The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities
I’m thrilled my new chapter, “Dyked New York: The Space between Geographical Imagination and Materialization of Lesbian–Queer Bars and Neighbourhoods,” is out …
Teaching Data Driven Cultures
In my recent blog post, Teaching Queer America, I reflected on my second senior seminar. In this post, I want to briefly …
Dancing with Hortense Spillers & Other Reflections on the Futures of American Studies Institute 2016
Futures of American Studies Institute 2016 #fasi16 took place June 20th-26th at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Below are tweets Pt. I or II. See the full schedule here http://www.dartmouth.edu/~futures/schedule/. Tweets from Part II can be found at http://bit.ly/fasi16storifypart2of2.
Teaching Queer America
This spring I taught two incredibly exciting courses. The senior seminar, Queer America, was comprised of a small group of students, primarily …
Advice for Grad Students: How to Respond to Peer Review
You say: Ack! You are going to submit something you wrote! To a journal! This is happening! I say: Good for you, …
Advice for Grad Students: How to Do Academic Peer Review
A grad student friend of mine called in a panic a few months ago asking how to do a peer review. “Should …
Appearing on the BBC World Services
I am honored to share that insights from my research were heard around the world for two minutes on August 23rd, 2016, …
New Research Project: Trans Tumblr
For about two years, I’ve been collecting data on the use of the #ftm hashtag and, for a shorter time, #mtf hashtag …
My Recommendation Writing Policy, and Advice on How/When/Who to Ask
Semester after semester, I find myself receiving an increasing number of requests to write recommendation letters. They are a pleasure to write. …
‘To be associated in space,’ or: a delightful misreading
My dear friend and colleague, Maggie Galvan, put up a post some time ago with a pretty powerful quote from feminist, queer, …