virtualpolitik
virtualpolitik
I am a writer, performer, activist and professor living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I am currently an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Arts, Culture & Media and the Faculty of Education at the University of Toronto. I am also an organizer with FemTechNet ( Feminist Technology Network ) and the Center for Solutions to Online Violence ( CSOV ).
In January 2017, I returned to Canada after several years working and living in the United States. From 2013-2015 I was Chair of Experimental Pedagogies in the School of Media Studies at The New School and most recently, from 2015-16, I was a Presidential Visiting Professor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Digital Humanities Lab at Yale University.
My academic work focuses on the cultural and intellectual economies and social lives of trans- feminist and queer grass-roots performance (in the broadest understanding of performance). This work includes a book on translocal cultural economies of queer and trans- feminist cabaret in Montreal, Mexico City and New York City, entitled Sliding Scale . I am also developing a collaborative research-creation project with Jasmine Rault and Dayna McLeod, called the Cabaret Commons : a user-generated digital archive
virtualpolitik
virtualpolitik