Research

 Weird Bodies and Weedy Economies: Crip Feminist Science and Worlding Possibilities, is a book-length research project that engages crip theory, queer of color critique, and postcolonial feminist science studies to examine contemporary queer economies and queer ecologies in the Americas and the Himalayas. This feminist study explores the webs of connections between economic and scientific innovation, queer sexualities and genders, disability, poverty, race, labor, and sustainability to better understand the “weedy rejects” of scientific and economic possibility. The book’s cutting-edge research offers new ways of thinking about queer, postcolonial, multiracial, and crip contributions to community science, and housing, health, and environmental justice efforts in the US and mountain regions of the global south.

Essays

“Cancer Femme as Biopossibility: Queer Feminist Science Studies, Transfeminisms, Audre Lorde, and Breast Cancer’s Surgical Interventions”  deploys critical disability theories, queer feminist science studies, Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals, and transfeminisms to think through queer, trans, femme, nonbinary, and multiracial engagements with “constructing” mastectomy surgeries.

“Salvaging the Material: Feminist Scientific Critiques of Democratic Engineering and Embodied Knowledge in the DIY Tiny House Movement” draws on empirical research and discourse analysis to understand how practices of community building science and democratic engineering shape identity and embodiment for poor people and people with disabilities participating in global Tiny House Movements.