poet | teacher | artist
community-engaged
cultural studies scholar
Selected Presentations
Black and Indigenous Peoplehood, Solidarity, and Queer Persistence | Association for Jotería Arts, Activism and Scholarship (AJAAS) Conference | Portland, OR | with Juan Rios Vega and Jose Corado
Settler-Colonial Biopolitics Meets Indigenous Peoplehood and Persistence: Sexualities and Genders | Sexuality and Borders Symposium | New York University
The Value of Advocacy for LGBTQ Youth of Color | Black Life Matters Conference | University of Arizona | with Christopher Arlen, Marshall Green, and Heidi R. Lewis
Black Life Matters Conference | University of Arizona
Beyond the Page: Writing that Dares | Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
Alexander John Goodrum Catalyst Award Presentation to Laverne Cox | Tucson, AZ
System-Level Innovations to More Effectively Address the Youth Homelessness Crisis | National Symposium on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness | New York, NY
The ANCHOR Project: A Trauma-Informed System of Care for LGBTQ+ Transitional-Age Young Adults | LGBTQ Health Conference | Tucson, AZ
Queering Liminality: The Uncommon Beauty and Creative Potential of Middle Spaces | Troubling Tucson: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry Symposium
Selected Invited Talks
“Beyond the Page: Writing that Dares” | Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance | Panelist | June 2021 | Find it here
“Toward the Empty Center: Journeys of Cultural Liminality and Elusive Authenticity” | Colby College, Boundaries and Margins Lecture Series | November 2020
“Love and Liberation” | Keynote Address | LGBTQ+ Rainbow Graduation | University of Arizona | May 2019
“Intersectionality: Identity and Advocacy at the Crossroads” | Keynote Address | Washington & Jefferson College | November 2018
“Sovereignty and Story: Shaping LGBTQ, Two Spirit, and African Native American Identities” | Indigenous People’s Day Conference | Kansas State University | October 2017
“Intentional Space: Creating Safe and Affirming Environments for LGBTQ Young People,” National Conference on Ending Homelessness | Washington, DC | July 2017
“The Value of Advocacy for LGBTQ Youth of Color” | Black Life Matters Conference | University of Arizona | January 2015
“Queering Liminality: The Uncommon Potential of Middle Spaces” | Trans and Genderqueer Poetry Symposium | Tucson, AZ | May 2013
Selected Conference Presentations
“Indigenous lands, Black bodies, and the Settler-Colonial Imperative” (panel with S. Stryker, M. Finkelstein, and J. Pierce, titled “Fungible Landscapes, Haunting Presences: Contesting Settler-Colonial Imaginaries”) | American Studies Association Conference | New Orleans, LA | November 2022
“Black and Indigenous peoplehood, solidarity, and queer persistence” | Association for Jotería Arts, Activism and Scholarship (AJAAS) Conference | Portland, OR | October 2019
“Settler-Colonial Biopolitics Meets Indigenous Peoplehood and Persistence: Sexualities and Genders” | Sexuality and Borders Symposium | New York University | New York, NY | April 2019
“Re-Storying and Re-naming: Two Spirit Healing and Resistance in the Enduring Face of Settler Colonialism” | American Indian Studies Association Conference | Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | February 2018
“In Whose Image: Trans and Genderqueer Writers on Magic, Spirituality, and (the Bodies of) G—d” (with TC Tolbert, R. Aoki, CA Conrad, & J. Ladin) | Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference | Los Angeles, CA | April 2016
“All Genders Celebrated: Programming Strategies to Affirm and Empower Transgender and Genderqueer Youth” | Transgender Spectrum Conference | University of Missouri | St. Louis, MO | November 2015