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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Orlando Pride 2016
Reportedly, 150,000 attended Orlando Pride. This was the first Pride Parade after the Pulse nightclub shooting. The usual corporate...
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Love is Blinding: Emphasizing Love and Ignoring War in Response to the Pulse Shooting
Last 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...
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Spaces and Flows: Interactive Presentation
To accompany my conference presentation at Spaces and Flows this month, I created an interactive presentation. This digital component is...
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NDAA: A Pernicious Tool for LGBT Violence
When Republicans are not slipping legislation into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that legalizes, expands, or protects...
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Pulse at the Orange County Regional History Center
The Orange County Regional History Center is doing an amazing job collecting items and documenting all of the memorials of the mass...
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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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Pulse Nightclub Today
These photos were taken at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando on September 22, 2016. The signs, gifts, and offerings that were left at the...
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Local Art En Memoriam
I went to the Orlando Public Library downtown to check out the Paint Strong exhibit. It's interesting to visually see how place and...
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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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The Pulse Nightclub Shooting (In Press)
My research article is now officially in press, to be published in North American Dialogue - the Journal of the Society for the...
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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...
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