I have three streams to my work:

1. Sexual and reproductive health education and communication

2. Feminist qualitative and arts-based methodologies

3. Embodiment, intimacy, and experiential learning in mediated and digital spaces

My work moves across pedagogy, technology, and care. I’m interested in how knowledge takes shape through bodies and relationships—how people learn, express, and make sense of complex experiences when words or systems fall short. Much of my research asks what happens when we slow down, listen closely, and make meaning through creative and collaborative ways.  

Focal Project #1: Provoked Knowledge: Women’s Sexual Health

In this collaborative project, we examine the affordances of conversations about women’s health that emerge in community and connective spaces. Grounded in the podcast Tight Lipped, which shares stories of vulvar and vaginal pain, we explore how feminist counterpublics enable experiences of validation, solidarity, and collective meaning-making. We consider how these shared narratives open possibilities for reframing women’s health through care, connection, and embodied knowledge.

Connected Grant: UCW Discovery Explore Grant 

 Focal Project #2: Intimacy and Fandoms

This fandom research explores how intimacy is formed, sustained, and disrupted through encounters in mediated and digital spaces. Focusing on K-pop idol fandoms, I examine how fans interpret bodies, appearances, and absences as signs of authenticity, care, and belonging. This work considers how mediated relationships become deeply felt experiences, and how fans’ attachments to artists and one another can be developed, sustained and/or fractured.

Focal Project #3: Erasure Poetry as Pedagogical Praxis

This project engages international students in exploring their roles in decolonization and in processes of reconciliation and reconstruction with Indigenous peoples in Canada. Using texts by Indigenous authors as source material, students create erasure poems that prompt reflection on respect, listening, and relationality. Through this process, we consider what it means to choose, alter, and share responsibly while living and learning on Indigenous Lands.

Connected Grants: EDID Initiatives Fund (Federation for the Social Sciences and Humanities) and UCW Discovery Innovation in Teaching Grant

Additional Project: I am also co-editing a special double-issue of Feral Feminisms (a proud independent feminist journal!), working with amazing authors from all over the world!