The Gay Best Friend You Never Had
I’ve recently read a number of blogs that bemoan sexism in the gay community. This is an important conversation to have, as long as we’re also discussing trends of well-intended […]
The Perils, Politics, and Economics of Publishing Autoethnography
Text and Performance Quarterly recently featured my essay “Homo-work,” wherein I discuss the politics of “peri-performativity.” Peri-performativity, as I explain in the article, “highlights what cannot be uttered in a […]
Free Access to Some of My More Recent Scholarly Endeavors
Taylor and Francis have published most of my peer-reviewed essays. They have a relatively new feature that allows authors to share up to 49 copies of their work for free. […]
A Scholarly Examination of and by Big Brother’s “Sob-o-teur”
My latest article, “‘You are Not Allowed to Talk About Production’: Narratization on and off the Set of CBS’s Big Brother,” was recently published in Critical Studies in Media Communication. The essay […]
Homo-Work
Homo-Work Quick plug: My latest article, “‘Homo’-work: Queering Academic Communication and Communicating Queer in Academia,” was recently published in Text and Performance Quarterly. In the piece, I use personal narrative to investigate […]
Metamorphosis
I recently scanned a bunch of old photos and marveled at the many looks that comprise my fashion oeuvre. I read clothes and hairstyles I wear like a text. Each […]
Philosophical Perspectives: A Cheat Sheet
I spent countless hours in graduate school trying to distinguish between the four worldviews that shape understandings of and conversations about truth, being, knowledge and power; these perspectives include modernism, […]
