Communication, Culture & Critique • 14th August 2024

Theorizing the Role of Courage in Resistance

I examine how Burmese prodemocracy dissident, Aung San Suu Kyi, challenges the epistemological unconscious that guides Western notions of courage and maps its viability for nonviolent political resistance.

Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies • 14th August 2024

A "Suitably Dead" Woman

This article investigates the discursive register through which lives become grievable by focusing on a case study of the discourses surrounding the death of U.S. feminist, Andrea Dworkin

Women's Studies in Communication • 14th August 2024

Aung San Suu Kyi and the Rhetoric of Social Protest in Burma

This essay provides a case study of the speech that marks Aung San Suu Kyi's emergence as a leader of the pro-democracy opposition in Burma.

Women's Studies in Communication • 14th August 2024

Rising Against the Third Shift: Reclaiming the Postpartum Body in “A Beautiful Body Project”

Discourses surrounding motherhood function increasingly to police the parameters of women’s bodies during pregnancy and postpartum. Rising against this trend is Jade Beall’s “A Beautiful Body Project” honoring mothers’ bodies in all their diversity. Using feminist rhetorical criticism, we investigate responses to the Facebook post announcing this project to gain an understanding of how commenters respond to Beall’s effort to reclaim and redefine postpartum embodiment.

Women's Studies in Communication • 14th August 2024

The Subversive Power of Survivor Rhetoric

I investigate how a novel archive of survivor testimony intervenes in dominant discourses on sexual assault and builds an alternative community history.

Mothering Outside the Lines: Tales of Boundary Busting Mothers • 1st October 2023

Creating a Champion for Women: The Transgressive Maternal Practices of Andrea Dworkin's Mother, Sylvia

Drawing on archival research from the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, I examine the transgressive maternal practices of second wave feminist Andrea Dworkin's mother, Sylvia.

Quarterly Journal of Speech • 22nd June 2022

“It's the Truth About Women—That We Get Lost”

Few figures vivify the struggle over public memory and survival as compellingly as second wave U.S. feminist Andrea Dworkin, who was a visionary and gadfly within the movement.

QED • 1st August 2016

Subversive Maternities: Staceyann Chin’s Contemplative Voice

I investigate how Staceyann Chin disrupts conventional notions of motherhood, affirms new forms of attachments, and creates meaningful transnational intimacies of choice.