Whatever genre I’m writing in, whatever subjects I center on my pages, I return to questions about how we mortals shape ourselves and one another in shifting relations of embodied pleasure, complicity, recognition, time, and change. I’m proud to say that each new project is a little more idiosyncratic, a little less academic, than the one before.
My work draws on my embodied encounters as a dancer and a teacher, as much as on my Ph.D. in 20th-century U.S. cultural and intellectual history. Current work combines life-writing with historical narrative, art criticism, graphite drawings, and lyrical fabulation: the fact that it’s written in first person doesn’t make it true.
Dances of Time and Tenderness (Nightboat 2024) is a cycle of stories linking queer memory, activism, death, and art in a transpoetic history of desire and touch. Shorter work has been published in many journals and anthologies including GLQ, TSQ: Trans Studies Quarterly, TDR: The Drama Review; The Journal of the History of Sexuality; The Transgender Studies Reader vol. 2; The Transgender Studies Remix; Queer Dance: Makings and Meanings; About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and the New Queer Art; and the Routledge Companion to Queer Art History, as well as in various blogs and zines.
AB, Bryn Mawr; MA, PhD, University of California, Irvine