Forms of Affiliation
I am at work on my first academic book, entitled Affiliations, which considers how disability life writing (by writers ranging from Audre Lorde and Anne Boyer to Sarah Schulman and Essex Hemphill to Eli Clare) counters the neoliberal privatization of care within the enclosure of the normative family by imagining the socialization of care through the formalization of networked relations of affiliation.
I am at work on my first academic book, entitled Affiliations, which considers how disability life writing (by writers ranging from Audre Lorde and Anne Boyer to Sarah Schulman and Essex Hemphill to Eli Clare) counters the neoliberal privatization of care within the enclosure of the normative family by imagining the socialization of care through the formalization of networked relations of affiliation.
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Depression and Popular Music I am at work on a journal article that consider how contemporary female pop singers reimagine biomedical understandings of depression through their feminist politics. I focus on the lived experiences and musical performances of singers like Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo, tracing their depressed feelings to the gendered experience of chronic isolation and loneliness - what I refer to as, "social defeat." I reveal that these singers protect themselves against the development of depression through the social support of a sisterhood that radically expands the notion of kinship. |
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"Indie Rap" I am at work on a project about "indie rap," which I historicize as a moment in popular music when indie rock and rap began conversing with one another. I have published a journal article about how the collaborations between Kanye West and Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver) crossed the musical and racial lines that tastemakers like Pitchfork established. I am now writing (with Amy Skjerseth) a journal article that traces how the aesthetics of West and Peter Bjorn & John's "whistle sound" anticipated the reactionary politics of our present moment. |
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Narrative Prosthesis After 25 Years
I am co-editing (with Christina Fogarasi) a special issue of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies that will offer a critical reassessment of David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder’s foundational concept of “narrative prosthesis” after twenty-five years.