Research Interests: Queer and feminist theory, porn studies and erotic subjectivity, digital media and cultures, and queer of color/trans of color hermeneutics; diasporic and indigenous studies, ethnographic methodologies, postcolonial theory, and Chicano studies; popular culture, body genres, cultural activism, cinema and spectatorship.

Education

BA in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (with Honors), Rice University, 2013

 Masters in Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University, 2015

Presentations

"Identity and Rhetoric in Gay Porn: Lessons for a Performer-Controlled Future” at CGU Visual Communities Conference. Claremont, CA. April 2014.

 "User-Generated Porn in the Public Sphere” at Cultural Studies Association National Conference. Irvine, CA. May 2015.