Upcoming & Recent Events
April 23, 2024
Invited lecture (TBA), Feminist Thinking Seminar Series, University of Oxford (virtual)
March 18, 2024
Keynote, Care Praxis and Care Literature Conference, Brandeis University (in-person; wear a mask)
March 16, 2025
Organizer of “Season Four,” Communion: Queer and Trans Memorial and Mourning featuring Ralowe Trinitrotoluene “The Machine” Ampu, Puck Lo, Eric A. Stanley, and Mirna Rodriguez (virtual)
March 6, 2024
Invited lecture, “Welcome to the Moundverse: Devour, Surrender, Care,” English and Graduate Studies for Continuing Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (virtual)
February 29, 2024
Organizer of “Black Trans Poetics: A reading with Levi Cain, JR Mahung, & Cameron Awkward-Rich,” English Department, Boston University (in-person; wear a mask)
February 9, 2024
”The Gayl Jones School of Love: Cat Lawson, Consequence, & Black Queer Care,” LGBTQIA+ Scholar Series, LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty and Staff, Boston University (virtual)
December 17, 2023
Organizer of “Season Three,” Communion: Queer and Trans Memorial and Mourning featuring Tala Khanmalek, ai onubogu, Teddy Max Pozo, and Anthony Yooshin Kim (virtual)
November 3, 2023
”With Abandon/Not Abandoned: Desire, Immobility, and Care,” panelist on “Perishable: Radical Dependence, Desire, and Witness,” American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada (in-person; wear a mask)
October 28, 2023
Roundtable panelist for “Mad/Trans Reimaginings from the Unmoored Locus of Becoming,” National Women’s Studies Association, Baltimore (in-person; wear a mask)
October 6, 2023
”Under-/Over-dosing, Ingestion, and Family Photography,” panelist on Waste Full: On Minoritarian Aesthetic Practices of Ingestion, Urination, and Contamination, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Seattle (in-person; wear a mask)
September 20, 2023
Facilitation and organization of “Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability: A Reading and Dialogue on Surface Relations with Vivian L. Huang and Evan Sakuma,” Boston University (virtual)
September 17, 2023
Organizer of “Season Two,” Communion: Queer and Trans Memorial and Mourning featuring eunjung kim, Briar S. Baron, Treva Ellison, and Mel Y. Chen (virtual)
June 18, 2023
Organizer of “Season One,” Communion: Queer and Trans Memorial and Mourning featuring Derrais Carter, Vivian L. Huang, JR Mahung, and Joseph Hirsh (virtual)
March 24, 2023
Dialogue with Eric Stanley celebrating their book, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable, Lucy Parsons Center, Boston (in-person; wear a mask)
February 9, 2023
Seminar with Ianna Hawkins Owen and Christina Sharpe responding, American Studies for the Future Lecture Series, American and New England Studies, Boston University (virtual)
February 1, 2023
”Releasing Diaspora: Leaky, Lonely, Sweaty,” Dept. of Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley (in-person; wear a mask)
November 12, 2022
”Not Ready to Heal / Healing with Consequence: Cat Lawson and Ursa Corregidora,” panelist on Healing Sideways: Trauma, Healing, and Care, National Women’s Studies Association, Minneapolis (in-person; wear a mask)
November 5, 2022
”"Everything Said In The Beginning": Collaborating on the Gayl Jones Symposium,” sponsored workshop by the Critical Ethnic Studies Committee, American Studies Association, New Orleans (virtual)
November 3, 2022
”Absence as Black Presence,” panelist on Black Forms, American Studies Association, New Orleans (in-person; wear a mask)
October 26, 2022
”‘To Be Free Is Very Sweet’: Blackness, Asexuality, and Abolition,” Second Annual Asexuality Studies Lecture, Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Mississippi (virtual)
October 2, 2022
Performer at Fierce As Death: Queer as Song of Songs, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Fransisco (in-person; outdoors)
September 14, 2022
Respondent to Britt Rusert’s “The World is a Severe Schoolmaster: Phillis Wheatley’s Poetry of Domination and Submission,” Mahindra Center American Literature and Culture Seminar, Harvard University (in person; wear a mask)
June 24, 2022
”Replaying the Record: Grief’s Temporalities” Anatomies of Grief: Conversations on an Ethic of Living, University of Toronto (virtual)
June 10, 2022
”Self and Other on the Body: Diasporic Solidarities” plenary speaker at Diaspora Solidarities: Islands, Intimacies, and Imagining Otherwise, McMaster University (virtual)
May 26, 2022
”Ghosting as Homecoming,” panelist at African American Literature and Culture Society, Chicago (presented in absentia; airline policy shift)
May 25, 2022
Roundtable panelist for “After the Fierce Urgency of Now,” Boston University (virtual)
May 20, 2022
““Too Precious a Habit”: The Exhaustion of Anyanwu and Baby Suggs,” AfterAffects: New Methods in Affect Theory at University of Chicago (virtual)
May 13-15, 2022
Organizer, “Then You Don’t Want Me”: Canonizing Gayl Jones symposium (virtual)
March 29, 2022
”Problem and Promise of Asexuality to Abolition,” Harvard American Studies Workshop (virtual)
March 24, 2022
”Past Isn’t Past,” Supporting Excellence: Looking Back, Looking Forward, CUNY Macaulay Honors College (virtual)