If All Dating Apps Are Based on Grindr, We Need to Talk about Cruising (Part I of III)
The first successful straight and lesbian dating apps emerged in the 2010s, including Tinder and HER. Widely known but woefully underexamined, these …
Take the LBQT*S Dating & Hookup App Survey!
Want to share about your experiences with dating and/or hookup apps as a lesbian, bisexual, queer, trans*, or sapphic person? TAKE THE …
How Dating Apps Researchers Tend to Study Women’s Experiences in Large Surveys
There are now thousands of studies on how people use, experience, and are even changed by their use of dating and hookup …
We Need More Lezbiqueertrans Dating App Studies, So I’m Launching One
In late 1999, I signed myself up for my first dating site, the now long defunct PlanetOut. I landed in New York …
CFP Mapping Desire – 25 years on: legacies, lessons, and lacunae (May & Sep 2020)
This is a call for papers (CFP) for CFP Mapping Desire – 25 years on: legacies, lessons, and lacunae (May & Sep …
What I Can Bear to Remember about Academic Job Video Interviews
It’s that season again: Skype and Zoom links are being clicked through in email inboxes, along with actual phone numbers being dialed, …
Space for Theory III (Nov 2019)
Winter is coming (up north first) so that many among us aim to keep the fires of our minds at full flame. …
Launching A Queer New York Website
After years of drafting maps and data visualizations, I am finally launching the A Queer New York website. My aim is to …
Upcoming Fall 2018 Talks & Conferences
I am letting go of keeping updates from all of the conferences I attend and talks I give, but I am always …
New Publication: Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities
I am terrifically honored to have my article, “Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities,” in the …
Research Interests
All of my publications are publicly and freely available on my resume & CV page here. Here are some highlights from my …
How to Write a Peer Review for a Journal Article
As an editorial collective member of ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies and as someone who once managed WSQ: Women’s Studies …
Joining the University of Kentucky Department of Geography
As of today, I’ve joined the Department of Geography of the University of Kentucky. I am thrilled to be on this new …
New Publication: “Messing with the Attractiveness Algorithm: a Response to Queering Code/Space”
I am utterly pumped to share the pre-print for my article, “Messing with the Attractiveness Algorithm: a Response to Queering Code/Space.” This …
Announcing My Book Contract with NYU Press for _A Queer New York_!
I am thrilled to announce that I have signed a contract with NYU Press for my in-progress book, A Queer New York: …
For Academics: How to Set Up Your Own Website and Why It’s Worth It
Dear Academic Friend, Over the years, many of you have asked me how to build a website. About eleven years ago, a …
New Pre-Publication: Operating Anew: Queering GIS with Good Enough Software
I am excited to share the pre-print for my article, “Operating Anew: Queering GIS with Good Enough Software.” This piece will be …
Hiring a Digital Scholarship Coordinator at Trinity College
Trinity College is hiring a Digital Scholarship Coordinator! Please spread the news far and wide — and come work with our fabulous …
“What’s Queer @ Internet Studies Now?”: Reflections on Queer Internet Studies 2 at UPenn ICA
I had the blissful, joyous experience of co-organizing the second Queer Internet Studies Symposium with my dear friend and colleague, Jessa Lingel …