My article, “Reclaiming Diverse LGBTQ+ Comics Histories: Representing Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Gay Comix (1980–1998),” has been published as a feature article in an issue of Radical History Review focused on “Subversive Comics.”
Article: Making Lesbians Visible: Recovering the Social History of the 1990s Lesbian Comics Boom
My essay, “Making Lesbians Visible: Recovering the Social History of the 1990s Lesbian Comics Boom,” is out in Feminist Formations 37.1.
Video: Who Is Preserving LGBTQ+ History? (Wiki Education Speaker Series)
On June 17, 2024, I spoke on a roundtable panel alongside Dan Royles, Dean Allbritton, and Juana María Rodríguez as we discussed different strategies of teaching with Wikipedia and working with our students to preserve LGBTQ+ History on Wikipedia. Andrés Vera, Equity Outreach Coordinator of Wiki Education, asked us some great questions and moderated the conversation.
Video: Censorship and the Comic Book: Seduction of the Innocent at 70 (Library of Congress event)
On June 6, 2024, I spoke alongside Qiana J. Whitted and Carol L. Tilley about the legacy of Fredric Wertham’s infamous book, Seduction of the Innocent (1954) that was part of a midcentury push against comics, and how it speaks to comics censorship today (spoiler: it’s complicated!). The discussion was hosted by the Library of Congress, which holds Wertham’s papers.
Media: Book Talks, Podcasts, and Reviews of In Visible Archives
Here’s a roundup of media about my first book In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s (2023). It includes recorded book talks and podcasts that I’ve done as well as reviews that folks have written. A full list of all talks and events including those that were not recorded can be found on my CV. I’m happy to talk at your institution, with your community group, and with your scholarly society.
Article: Comics as Trans Literature
My essay, “Comics as Trans Literature,” has been published in the collection, The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature (Routledge, 2024).
Article: Interviews with Queer Cartoonists from the 1980s-1990s: Hope Barrett, N. Leigh Dunlap, Rebecca Gordon, Sina Shamsavari
My essay, “Interviews with Queer Cartoonists from the 1980s-1990s: Hope Barrett, N. Leigh Dunlap, Rebecca Gordon, Sina Shamsavari,” co-written with Ansley Burtch, Britney Megnath, Brooke Tymoniewicz, and Julia Whisenhunt is out in ImageTexT 14.3 and available open-access online.
Video: Making Lesbians Visible (Invited Talk, Ringling College)
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.
Article: Of Anthologies and Activism: Building an LGBTQ+ Comics Community
My essay, “Of Anthologies and Activism: Building an LGBTQ+ Comics Community,” has been published in the collection, The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader: Critical Openings, Future Directions (University Press of Mississippi, 2022). It received an honorable mention for the Comics Studies Society’s 2023 Article Prize. The collection won an Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work.
