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RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

My current research explores queer, trans, and nonbinary people of color and their performances of illegibility, unruliness, rebellion, and refusal in the early 21st century. Such performances enact a form of flight from the racial and erotic ordering projects foundational to racial capitalism.

ACADEMIC WRITING

BOOK CHAPTERS & ARTICLES FORTHCOMING

 

“(White) Boys in White Dresses: Racial Capitalism and the Limits of Gender-Disruptive Fashion” to be published in the Palgrave Handbook of Fashion and Politics, eds. Karen M. Kedrowski, Candice Ortbals, Lori Poloni-Staudinger and J. Cherie Strachan. Forthcoming; expected publication late spring/early summer 2024.

 

“‘It’s After the End of the World’: Notes on Black on Both Sides, Five Years On” for forthcoming special issue article of Philosophy Compass; submitted September 2022, affiliated article from Snorton expected December 2023, publication forthcoming.

 

ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW

“SIMULTANEOUS JOY AND RAGE: Mark Aguhar’s “LITANIES TO MY HEAVENLY BROWN BODY” and Abject, Unruly Refusals of Unbearability” for Women’s Studies Quarterly special issue, “Unbearable Bodie(s).” Submitted for review October 2023; under review as of December 1, 2023.

 

MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS

Rites of Refusal: Queer-of-Color Imaginaries Beyond Equality. Book proposal and manuscript chapters in preparation.

Untitled Cedric Robinson teaching resource project (Co-authored with Steph Jones, Ian Baran, and Koji Quimbo). Book proposal and manuscript chapters in preparation.

ARTICLES IN PREPARATION

 

“Stop Whose Hate?” to Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies; invited to Revise and Resubmit September 2023, requested to fully resubmit to journal after co-author dropped out. Currently under revision.

 

“Banishing the Boogeyman: Cedric Robinson’s Radical Critique of ‘The Political.’” Invited coauthored article on Cedric Robinson for Politics, Groups, and Identities special issue, “Flowers for the Founders: A Contemporary Revisiting of Canonical Black Politics Scholarship.” Coauthored article with Stephanie Jones and Chaz Briscoe. Proposal accepted September 2023; expected manuscript submission January 2024.

“In the Shadow of the Shield: Assessing the MCU’s Framing of Identity and Oppositional Ideology as Terrorism in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” for Terrorism and Popular Culture: Teaching the Next Generation from the Cold War to Present, eds. Martin Claar and Clint Jones. Lexington Books. Proposal accepted January 2024; expected manuscript submission March 2024.

“Cultivating White Trans Worlds: Keffals, Kiwifarms, and the Threat of Visibility” for Celebrity Studies special issue, “Trans Celebrity.” Coauthored article with Josh Falek. Proposal submitted December 2023.

 

PUBLISHED REVIEWS

 

“Differing Not Merely in Degree but Also in Kind: A Review of Lorna N. Bracewell’s Why We Lost the Sex Wars.” Theory & Event 25(3): 2022.

 

“Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights, by Melissa R. Michaelson and Brian F. Harrison. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020. 256 pages. $29.95 (paper), ISBN: 9780190068899.” National Review of Black Politics 2(3-4): 2021.

ESSAYS +
ZINES

“Ripple on Through Me: Aye Nako’s ‘Unleash Yourself’ and Moving Toward the Feeling of Queer-of-Color Freedom”

For You’ve Gotta Check This Band Out essay anthology. Ed. Merlin Sabal. Forthcoming.

“AFTER EXTERMINATION, or: My Chemical Romance is Dead! Long Live My Chemical Romance!”

For SWARM Zine: A My Chemical Romance Anthology. Published November 2023.  

“Good is a Thing You Do: Feminism as Action, Rather Than Identity”

For the SIUE Women’s Studies Program blog. November 2015.

RESEARCH
MINI-ZINES

"WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE NOTHING AT ALL (TOWARDS NONBINARY WITHOUT NON-BINARY"

Originally presented February 2, 2024.

"TWENTY YEARS OF REVENGE: A My Chemical Romance Zine."

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