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) queer kinship, including queer parenting in the time of “parental rights” and kinship navigation during the COVID-19 pandemic

2) the institutionalization of feminist and queer logics in higher education, including institutional sexualized violence responses and and the dismantling of EDI in Alberta.

I have just completed a pilot study called “Queer Parenting in the Time of Parental Rights” with Leah Hamilton which traces the impacts of anti-2SLGBTQIA+ legislation in Alberta on queer families. You can read about some of this findings of this study by subscribing to our Substack newsletter and read about our new 2025 SSHRC IDG project here.

I am slowly working on a manuscript entitled “Reproduction in crisis: fertility, depopulation, and anti-trans anxiety” which explores the role of transphobia in shaping concerns about human population within academic, political, and conspiratorial circles. This book aims to illustrate how the 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).

I currently serve as the Co-Chair of the association for Women’s, Gender and Social Justice (WGSJ.