I am an interdisciplinary social movement historian interested in queer-feminist engagements with land in the long 1970s. I currently serve as Postdoctoral Research Scholar and Program Advisor to the Black and Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute at the University of Virginia. I earned my Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2023. My work has appeared Feminist Theory and QED as well as in several edited collections.
In my current book project, Another Womyn’s Land: Metronormativity, Inheritance, and the Futures of Ecological Feminisms, I draw from extensive archival research conducted as part of my dissertation and additional fieldwork conducted during my time at UVA to examine the ways rural queer feminist projects challenge settler land governance in the United States by facilitating practices rooted in queer reconnection with the more-than-human world. This project takes the little-studied archive of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx participants in the womyn’s land movement as its lens for understanding how feminists in rural places produce radical ecological politics that are rendered invisible by metronormativity while also offering a usable past for present day queer scholarship and activism that is increasingly interested in land amidst the growing threats of climate change.
In addition to my scholarly work, I am known for a lawsuit I filed against my high school principal regarding an unlawful faith-based “sex education” assembly in West Virginia in 2013.
I live and work on the lands of the Monacan people in so-called central Virginia.