Fieldwork Flashbacks
As Treasure Island closes its stores and union workers sue the grocery store chain, I began to reflect of all of the changes that have...
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Gay Life's Featured Bars from the mid-1970s
Below are some clippings from Chicago's Gay Life, chronicling some of the gay neighborhood's most prominent gay bars in and around New...
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Starbucks and The Problem with Commercial "Safe Space"
In the days after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, acts of racism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and misogyny that...
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The LGBTQ+ People and Festivals of Boystown, Chicago
Here are some photos of Pride and Market Days from 2007-2010, which I took during my ethnographic fieldwork in Boystown, Chicago. #gay...
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No Tea, No Shade
On October 28th, No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies will be published. This is a volume of scholarly works edited by...
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Boystown: Gentrification continues...
As gentrification continues in the neighborhood of Boystown, so too does the writing of my dissertation. I have written and re-wrtiten...
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