Talks

Selected Conference Presentations

2023. “Glitching the Digital Transgender Virus through Care.” Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference.

Over the past decade, anti-transgender movements have claimed that transgender identity has spread digitally through “trans social contagion,” similar to a computer virus. I theorize digital trans place-making through glitch politics, highlighting how such spaces thrive despite being classified as viruses, errors, and ghosts in the cissexist machine.

2022. “Towards a critical trans politics of code/space.” American Association of Geographers (AAG), Annual Meeting.

Surveillance systems rely on stable identifiers to function, but transition often indicates changes such as names and gender markers. This has significant economic ramifications for trans experiences, as being forcibly outed as trans through credit reports, background checks, or even social media platforms affects access to employment, housing, financial means, and many other resources. This paper explores these consequences while arguing against expanding surveillance systems under the guise of trans inclusion.

2021. “Normativity and contradictions in trans care ethics.” Transgender Professional Association for Transgender Health (TPATH) Conference: Converging Crises.

This paper highlights highlight two vignettes from my master’s thesis that reveal productive tensions surrounding trans experiences of community care. You can view this presentation online.

Workshops

My workshops aim to teach participants how to create effective, beautiful qualitative data visualizations.

2019-2020. ESRI Story Map Workshops. Suzzallo and Allen Libraries at University of Washington. Seattle, WA.

This is a workshop I developed in my capacity as a GIS Staff Assistant with the University of Washington Libraries on ESRI’s Class Story Map platform. You can find the materials for this workshop in this public Google Drive. I strongly recommend starting with the workshop guidelines.

2018. Workshop: Using Digital Humanities for Queer History. University of Georgia LGBT Resource Center: Connect Conference. Athens, GA.

I created this workshop in order to guide conference participants in using TimelineJS, an open-source platform created by Knight Lab at Northwestern University for creating timelines using Google Spreadsheets. You can find the slideshow that I used here.

Guest Lectures

Please reach out if you are interested in having me speak to your class on my areas of expertise, some of which include applied transgender studies, geography and gender, data and power, feminist political geography, or qualitative methods.

• 2024, Spring. “Disability, Geography, and Immigration.” Prepared for: University of Missouri, GEOG 4450/7450: Health, Healthcare Access, and Geography. Instructor: Dr. Aída Guhlincozzi. Video available here.
• 2020, Summer. “The Role of the Digital in Trans Sex Work.” Prepared for: University of Washington, GEOG 258: Digital Geographies. Instructor: Isaac Rivera.
• 2020, Spring. “Literature Reviews.” Prepared for: University of Washington, GEOG 316: Explanation and Understanding in Geography. Instructor: Julian Barr.