Session Type: Academic

“The Burden Never Laid” is a modified scoping literature review that examines the relationship between Black gay men and their ties to the Black Church. An audible artifact with any […]...

From 2014 to 2016 I conducted research on Kirk/Spock fanfiction. This research included interviewing fanfiction readers and writers, participating in fan conventions, and analyzing more than 6,000 pages of fan-written […]...

Is it possible to live the majority of your life in a space you know very little about? Quite possible. Welcome to the heteronormative matrix, where your entire reality as […]...

The prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has become increasingly more apparent. As a result, the influence of these forms of trauma have been associated with a variety of negative […]...

This presentation explores queercore, a subgenre of punk music that focuses on radical politics and queer themes. I’ll go over a brief history of queercore, highlight some zines that shaped […]...

This paper will investigate how the pink triangle and its various affiliated rallying cries demonstrate the goals and attitudes of gay people who reclaimed it. A central research question is […]...

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Gender nonconforming, People of Color (LGBTQ+ POC) face a myriad of challenges due to inhabiting multiple discriminated identities. These challenges are compounded by multiple systems of […]...

Pirates are figures that have dominated our media as epitomes of masuline heterosexual behavior and moral debasement.  With research, however, it seems that pirates exhibit just one of these things. […]...

This presentation is formed at the intersection of contemporary transgender studies and transnational feminism. It thus foregrounds the extent to which essentialist or mimetic understandings of sexed embodiment, gender identity […]...

I would like to present my DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice) Quality Improvement Project. This project provided staff education at a hospice agency on the use of inclusive language and […]...