I am a queer neurodivergent non-binary white settler, and a Professor & Coordinator of Women’s and Gender Studies at Mount Royal University.

My current research program is inspired by two central curiosities:

1) the “anti-gender” movement and anti-2SLGBTQIA+ policies and sentiments in Alberta, and

2) the dismantling of EDI and increasing anti-2SLGBTQIA+ sentiments in Alberta post-secondary institutions.

With Leah Hamilton, I am working on a 2-year SSHRC IDG project which traces the impacts of the Alberta anti-2SLGBTQIA+ legislation- and the ‘parental rights’ movement fuelling it- on 2SLGBTQIA+ youth and their families. This study is an extension of a Calgary-based pilot study called “Queer Parenting in the Time of Parental Rights.” You can follow our research findings by subscribing to our Substack newsletter.

I also working on a series of articles about the role of transphobia in shaping concerns about human population within academic, political, and conspiratorial circles with the goal of showing how contemporary panic about falling and rising birth rates— and shifting racial, sexual, and gender demographics— are inextricably tied to contemporary anti-2SLGBTQIA+ attacks.

With Irene Shankar, I recently published an edited collection mapping the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on marginalized faculty members. Unmasking Academia: Institutional Inequities Laid Bare During COVID-19 (University of Alberta Press).