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, …
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.
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, …
Sharing My MA Thesis: Aggression in the Quaker Meeting for Worship
Over ten years ago, I spent a year pursuing the role of the instinct for aggression–the instinct to act, behave, take part, …
Talk on 10/2: Queering the Map
I’m over the moon that 1) I do not have the flu as I did last February when I had to cancel …
New Publication: Crossing Over into Territories of the Body (Area)
I am pleased to report that my new article in Area, “Crossing Over into Territories of the Body: Urban Territories, Borders, and …
Queer and Urban Reflections on St. Petersburg BUKA Alumni Meeting
The following is a post I recently shared with the American Friends of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation blog in reflection to the …
Visualizing ‘Queer Exchange’ Friendships
I am increasingly interested in the social networks of queers, broadly and self-defined. One of the largest queer groups on Facebook that …
Reflecting on “Identity Work and Identity Play Online” #2013ASA
Livetweets from”Identity Work and Identity Play Online” with @Greene_DM, @lportwoodstacer, @anitaconchita, @lnakamur, & @tmcphers at #ASA2013. Link to the panel info can be found here: http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/theasa/theasa13/index.php?click_key=1&cmd=Multi+Search+Search+Load+Session&s
Collecting Data, Que(e)rying the SpaceTime of the Lesbian Herstory Archives
On founding the Lesbian Herstory Archives: Deb Edel: We began talking about how easily our history had gotten lost. Joan Nestle: That …
Dissertation for Download: Living in an (In)Visible World: Lesbians’ and Queer Women’s Spaces and Experiences of Justice and Oppression in New York City, 1983-2008
Once I was able to sort out that my own copyright as ascertained through the UMIDatabase system allowed me to self-share my …
Digital Geographies, Geographies of Digitalia (an AAG Call for Papers)
As a critical cultural and urban geographer, feminist and queer theorist, and digital studies scholar, I find it difficult to place my …
Announcing the Our Queer Lives & Space (#OQLS) Project
Our Queer Lives and Spaces (#OQLS) Project is a living queer archive that affords lgbtqtstsi a space to map & share their stories in …
“Queer(ing) New York”: Education for Change, on May Day and Beyond
The CLAGS Seminar in the City that I am teaching, “Queer(ing) New York,” will begin this evening, May 1st. Since creating this …
Opotow & Gieseking “Foreground & Background” Article Now Available Here for Download
My co-authored paper with the fabulous Susan Opotow, “Foreground and Background: Environment as Site and Social Issue,” in the 75th anniversary issue …
After #TtW13, and on Bodies and Bits
I had a riveting weekend helping to coordinate and preside over a session at Theorizing the Web 2013 (#TtW13). I massively enjoyed …