Developing Winter ParkResearch and data collection continues on my project studying urban development in Winter Park. I have made some interesting discoveries...
2017 Image of ResearchI received an honorable mention at the University of Illinois at Chicago's 2017 Image of Research competition for the following...
Research Media CoverageI was organizing the newspaper articles I clipped during my fieldwork and came across one of my study of Boystown. It was published in...
East Lakeview Arts FestivalFor the next few months, I will be writing short pieces here about key moments documented through my fieldwork in Chicago's Boystown that...
News Media, Violence, and Global Capital: Contradictions in Knowledge ProductionWhile writing a recent article on Pulse, I came across this dilemma when researching the reported protest of thousands of people against...
Love is Blinding: Emphasizing Love and Ignoring War in Response to the Pulse ShootingLast week, the City of Orlando released the 911 calls made by Omar Mateen, the shooter who killed 49 people and injured 68 at the Pulse...
No Tea, No ShadeOn October 28th, No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies will be published. This is a volume of scholarly works edited by...
On Writing Ethnography (for the first time)Writing has never been a problem for me. I have always loved writing. But writing an ethnography has been such a huge challenge. There...
PulseWhat started out as a personal essay, grew into a journal article and an interactive poster that I will be presenting at at least one...