Welcome! I am an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing and core faculty in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. I am an interdisciplinary feminist, queer, and cultural studies scholar interested in ideas that have become taken-for-granted by liberals and leftists. This approach marks the through line of my research on things as ostensibly disparate as reproductive justice, queer rurality, crisis pregnancy centers, food justice, and pelvic pain. I am also interested in feminist and queer forms of resistance, including those that transpire through art, humor, design, and pedagogy.

I’m the author of two books and co-editor of another, a film producer, and engaged broadly in the public humanities. My public-facing work includes a reproductive justice mini golf course, leading public feminism fellowships and curating related art exhibitions, and writing for the public, including for The New York Times and Ms. Magazine. I am also an editor for the Reproductive Justice book series at the University of California press.

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