I currently hold a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to investigate the impact of social distancing measures on 2SLGBTQIA+ communities in Alberta and Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic. Framed by queer theory’s expansive definition of family and kinship, the project aims to unpack the experiences of 2SLGBTQIA+ folks navigating “stay-at-home” measures that disconnected community members from their social supports. For this project, we are currently interviewing social service providers about their experiences serving the community during the pandemic, and we will begin interviewing community members about their experiences navigating kinship and care in Fall 2023. I am the Co-PI on this project with Deb McPhail (NPI) alongside team members Fenton Litwiller and Robert Norway.

I recently completed a SSHRC IDG project (with Irene Shankar) that explored feminist faculty responses to sexualized violence across (what is colonially known as) Canada. In the wake of #MeToo, Canadian universities found themselves under pressure to respond to sexualized violence on their campuses, and struggled to do so. Perplexingly, postsecondary institutions had access to feminist expertise on campus, but this didn’t always translate into robust responses, especially for Black, Indigenous, racially minoritized, 2SLGBTQIA+, disabled and/or neurodivergent members of campus communities. We are in the process of publishing our findings from this project.

Submitted and in preparation:

Exploring Gender Euphoria through Arts-Based Action Research with Youth," Internal Research Grant Fund, MRU (Co-applicant)

Radical Flourishing Through Collapse: Queer, Entangled, More-Than-Human Artistic Experiments in the greenhouse artlab, SSHRC, Roewan Crowe (PI), University of Winnipeg (Co-applicant). 

Transformative Encounters: Gender and Sexuality Pedagogies in Canada, SSHRC, Natalie Kouri-Towe (PI), Concordia University (Collaborator)