I am a queer non-binary white settler, and a Professor & Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Mount Royal University.

My current research program is inspired by two central curiosities:

1) queer kinship, including kinship navigation during the COVID-19 pandemic, the appearance of homo and transphobia in discourses on birth rates, and queer parenting in the time of “parental rights.”

2) 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.

I am currently working on a manuscript entitled “Reproduction in crisis: fertility, depopulation, and anti-trans anxiety” which explores the role of transphobia in shaping concerns about in/fertility within academic, political, and conspiratorial circles. 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 contemporary anti-2SLGBTQIA+ attacks.

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 November 2025 with University of Alberta Press.

I sit on the Editorial Board for Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice and I am the 2023-24 Co-Chair of the association for Women’s, Gender and Social Justice (WGSJ.