
I am broadly interested in subjectivity formation and the socio-medicalized frameworks that animate experiences of bodily difference. My current project focuses how individuals with the genetic condition Turner Syndrome (karyotype 45,X) situate their sex, gender, and disability identities in the contemporary U.S. landscape. I am particularly interested in how ambivalent relationships to reproductive rights and trans and intersex identities intersect with racial and socioeconomic disparities of the diagnosis to create an exclusionary picture of Turner Syndrome that reflects larger political dynamics in the U.S. My second project will examine how intersectional asexual and aromantic communities in the St. Louis area productively trouble ideas of sex, intimacy, (re)productivity, and citizenship to explore human futures built outside of exclusionary reproductive “ideals” of sex and kinship. I center a holistic and inclusive philosophy of accessibility in my work, which prioritizes community-based research and the co-production of knowledge.