Hello!

Studying trans history and identity has been the joy of my life in recent years, and has opened so many doors into understanding myself and my experiences. I love connecting the archival and sociological stars I’ve encountered to weave a constellation of meaning and a path towards better worlds. Amid the escalation of anti-trans rhetoric over the last decade, particularly since dominant society became more widely aware of trans people after Time’s ‘Transgender Tipping Point’ in 2014, the study of trans philosophy and possible futures is crucial.

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My academic and artistic work has emerged from a foundation in storytelling. I began my postsecondary education studying film directing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. As someone who grew up immersed in theater and writing, filmmaking felt like a natural extension of my desire to explore the complexity of human experience through narrative. Yet during my time studying film, I became increasingly frustrated with the narrow perspectives dominating mainstream cinematic culture. Much of the canon presented in film education centered on the work of white cisgender male directors, and the stories they championed often relied on stereotypes about marginalized identities. This realization sparked a deeper curiosity about the mechanisms through which media shapes social perception, and how I can reject these influences in my own work.

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That curiosity ultimately led me to pursue graduate research at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where I developed an interdisciplinary focus on trans semiotics, media studies, and trans philosophy. My research has included archival work on Urania, a small-circulation early twentieth-century publication that advocated for the abolition of binary sex categories, as well as ethnographic work exploring the semiotics of gender expression in contemporary Brooklyn trans nightlife. My graduate degree culminated in a feature-length screenplay depicting nuanced trans experiences within nightlife spaces, titled Gender Fiends.

 

Alongside my academic research, zines and visual moving and static art remain central to my creative practice. I am deeply inspired by the vibrant cultures of self-publishing that have long sustained queer and trans communities. Zines offer a form of knowledge production that exists outside traditional institutional and capitalist structures, allowing ideas, histories, and personal experiences to circulate freely within communities. My artistic work often incorporates collage, rotoscope animation, and hand-drawn illustration as vehicles to investigate my life within the constellation of trans, fat, and colonial experience. 

 

Across both scholarship and art, I am interested in how marginalized communities produce knowledge about themselves: through archives, performance, storytelling, and collective care. My work seeks to honor these traditions while contributing new ways of documenting and imagining trans life—building connections between past histories, present communities, and the possibilities of the future.