essays

• On Choosing to Not Choose a ‘Chosen Family’ (Pride Source, 2023)
• Stomping Spots: Queer Feelings for a Bad Bug Headed to Michigan (Pride Source, 2023)
• Protozoa—in Microbium: The Neglected Lives of Micro-matter, eds. Joela Jacobs & Agnes Malinowska (Punctum Press, 2023)
• Unclear Sun: Notes on Centa Schumacher’s It is longing to be seen (Bunker Review, 2023)
• Horton Hears a They/Them: The Linguistics of Nonbinary Speech (Pride Source, 2023)
• This Pride, ‘I Love My Hometown Whether it Loves Me Back or Not’ (100 Days in Appalachia, 2023)
• Art Heists True and False: Lyndon Barrois Jr. at the Carnegie Museum of Art (Observer, 2023)
• When They Go Low, We Go Sideways: Finding Queer Light in Dark Times (Pride Source, 2023)
• Dorothy Santos is Learning to Sound Like Nobody Else (Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative Inquiry, 2023)
• Fool’s Gold: The Bad News of The Golden Girls‘ Freida Claxton (The Gutter Review, 2023)
• A Bridge in Winter (Weathered, 2023)
• Wanted: A Gay Warhol (Bunker Review, 2023)
• Plant Daddies Everywhere (Pride Source, 2023)
• Fat (Bunker Review, 2022)
• Masterclass in Pleasure (Dirt, 2022)
• Keeping the Negative: On Ann Marks’ Vivian Maier Developed (Cleveland Review of Books, 2022)
• The Photographic Moment: On Kate Palmer Albers’ The Night Albums (Cleveland Review of Books, 2022)
• Uprooting a Renter’s Garden (Edge Effects, 2019)
• Desiring Tumblr, Porn, and the Archives (Archivists on the News, 2019)
• Material Provocations in the Archives (Journal of Critical Library & Information Studies, 2019)
• Tribulus Troubles: Wildflowers in the Edward Palmer Papers at the National Anthropological Archives (Smithsonian Collections Blog, 2017)
• What if the Trip Follows You Home (Steer Queer, 2017)
• it’s it (Sundog Lit, 2017)
• But She’s Still Got Those Teeth (Cactus Heart, 2016)