My current research program is inspired by two central curiosities:
1) the institutionalization of feminist and queer logics in higher education, including critical studies of EDI, sexualized violence responses, and more recently, the rise of “anti-gender ideology” on university campuses
2) queer kinship, including kinship navigation during the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental/climate justice responses to reproduction through a queer lens, and queer parenting in the time of “parental rights.”
My second book “Reproduction in Crisis” explores discourses of crisis related to in/fertility. Offering a queer reproductive justice analysis, this book aims to illustrate how the contemporary panic and conspiracies around falling and rising birth rates— and shifting racial, sexual, and gender demographics— are inextricably tied to homophobia and transphobia.
With Leah Hamilton, I am working on a new project entitled “Queer Parenting in the Time of Parental Rights.” We are conducting serial focus groups with caregivers in queer families to map the impacts of impending anti-2SLGBTQIA+ legislation in Alberta during the first year of implementation. You can follow our project by subscribing to our Substack newsletter.
With Irene Shankar, I recently completed an edited collection mapping the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on marginalized faculty members. Unmasking Academia: Institutional Inequities Laid Bare During COVID-19 is forthcoming with University of Alberta Press.
