On September 9, 2022, I had the great pleasure of giving an invited talk, “Making Lesbians Visible: Recovering the Social History of the 1990s Lesbian Comics Boom,” to a packed room of art students at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. The talk is part of my second book project, Comics in Movement, that examines how transnational communities of LGBTQ cartoonists innovated comics through various grassroots formats in the 1980s-1990s. Inspired by the talk, I put together a resource guide to queer comics.

You can access the video of the talk here.

On August 28, 2021, cartoonist Justin Hall and I chatted about why we need to recover queer comics history & how he’s done so over the past 15 years with his No Straight Lines projects. This event was part of San Francisco Zine Fest 2021 and took part on the first of nine days of programming!
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On February 27, 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking alongside Justin Hall, Nic Gitau, and Mariko Tamaki on a panel moderated by andré m. carrington about LGBTQ+ issues in comics art, history, publishing, and events. Each of us briefly presented from our own perspectives in the comics world. This video is available as part of the MSU Comics Forum 2021.
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For the first annual Comics Studies Society conference in 2018, I had the privilege of being in dialogue with a bunch of amazing women about how we might rethink comics history in ways that would center the experiences of women. The spark for this panel arose out of a series of exchanges on Twitter that made evident the still fraught position of women in comics studies—as Tahneer Oksman asked in a tweet: “What does it mean to be a woman writing about comics?”
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On March 22, 2017, I spoke alongside comics scholar Ramzi Fawaz and cartoonists Phil Jimenez and Jennifer Camper about queer studies and LGBTQ representation in comics. Each of us presented briefly about our research and work and fielded a number of questions from the lively audience. This video is available via the Strand Book Store’s YouTube channel.
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On April 3, 2016, at the annual MoCCA Arts Fest, I had the distinct pleasure of moderating a panel of artists who participated in Wimmen’s Comix (1972-1992), including Jennifer Camper, Phoebe Gloeckner, Diane Noomin, and Leslie Sternbergh. Each artist talked about their own work with the series, sharing strips and stories from across the two decades of the series’ existence. Read More→

In 2015, the English Program at The Graduate Center, CUNY, produced a short promotional video featuring both graduate students and faculty. I feature in it throughout, talking about the benefits of getting a PhD in the English Program and how my own research has been shaped by this environment.
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