The first successful straight and lesbian dating apps emerged in the 2010s, including Tinder and HER. Widely known but woefully underexamined, these apps based their designs on, or even against, the first successful dating/hookup app: Grindr. In other words, developers imitated, refused, or even outright copied design, functionality, and structure …
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There are now thousands of studies on how people use, experience, and are even changed by their use of dating and hookup …
In late 1999, I signed myself up for my first dating site, the now long defunct PlanetOut. I landed in New York …
This is a call for papers (CFP) for CFP Mapping Desire – 25 years on: legacies, lessons, and lacunae (May & Sep …
It’s that season again: Skype and Zoom links are being clicked through in email inboxes, along with actual phone numbers being dialed, …
Winter is coming (up north first) so that many among us aim to keep the fires of our minds at full flame. …
After years of drafting maps and data visualizations, I am finally launching the A Queer New York website. My aim is to …
I am letting go of keeping updates from all of the conferences I attend and talks I give, but I am always …
I am terrifically honored to have my article, “Where Are We? The Method of Mapping with GIS in Digital Humanities,” in the …
All of my publications are publicly and freely available on my resume & CV page here. Here are some highlights from my …
As an editorial collective member of ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies and as someone who once managed WSQ: Women’s Studies …
As of today, I’ve joined the Department of Geography of the University of Kentucky. I am thrilled to be on this new …
I am utterly pumped to share the pre-print for my article, “Messing with the Attractiveness Algorithm: a Response to Queering Code/Space.” This …
I am thrilled to announce that I have signed a contract with NYU Press for my in-progress book, A Queer New York: …
Dear Academic Friend, Over the years, many of you have asked me how to build a website. About eleven years ago, a …
I am excited to share the pre-print for my article, “Operating Anew: Queering GIS with Good Enough Software.” This piece will be …
Trinity College is hiring a Digital Scholarship Coordinator! Please spread the news far and wide — and come work with our fabulous …
I had the blissful, joyous experience of co-organizing the second Queer Internet Studies Symposium with my dear friend and colleague, Jessa Lingel …