Fieldwork FlashbacksAs Treasure Island closes its stores and union workers sue the grocery store chain, I began to reflect of all of the changes that have...
Gay Life's Featured Bars from the mid-1970sBelow are some clippings from Chicago's Gay Life, chronicling some of the gay neighborhood's most prominent gay bars in and around New...
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...
The LGBTQ+ People and Festivals of Boystown, ChicagoHere are some photos of Pride and Market Days from 2007-2010, which I took during my ethnographic fieldwork in Boystown, Chicago. #gay...
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...
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...