Events

Recent Events and Talks

“Queer Speculation: Transing Genre, Transing Gender,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, 2024

“Queering Gender, Queering Genre: Historical Imagining as Radical Repair,” Circa: Queer Histories Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 2023

 “A Place of our Own: Fanfiction Writing and the Making of Online Queer Communities,” Queer Your Mind Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 2023

“Never Call a Psychopath a Psychopath: Defamiliarizing the Queer Psychopath in Killing Eve,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2022

“Dress and Defiance: Policing Gender from Cross-Dressing Laws to Drag Show Bans,” Keynote Speaker, Women's and Gender History Symposium, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, March 4, 2023

“Clothing, Coding and Defiance in the American West,” The Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA, 2022

“Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law and Fascination,” Camron-Stanford House, Oakland, California, 2021

“Queer Crimes and Misdemeanors: Policing Problem Bodies in the U.S.” Kiel University, Kiel, Germany, 2020

“Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law and Fascination,” Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 2018

“Cities in Dust: Historical Perspectives on Urban Exclusionary Spaces,” Non-Compliant Bodies: Social Equity and Public Space Conference, Yale University School of Architecture, 2018

“Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law and Fascination,” San Francisco Public Library, 2018

“Creating a Disturbance: The Making of Emotional Disturbance as a Disability Category in the Mid-Twentieth Century United States,” Keynote Address, American Studies Student Association, California State University Fullerton, 2018

“Faces from the Past: Queer Lives in Northern California Before 1930,” GLBT History Museum, San Francisco, CA, 2017

“Progressive Transgressions,” Shaping San Francisco Public Talk Series, Eric Quesada Center for Culture and Politics, San Francisco, CA, 2017