Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes- Walt Whitman
For more about my scholarship and current work please see the Work section of this site.
Where I am coming from
As a feminist researcher, I acknowledge and am committed to “being in the work”. I believe that it is that is impossible to do unbiased science and that we are always implicated in our research …and that that is totally OK! I have benefited disproportionately from the recognized “women’s movements”; organized and driven by (mostly white) women like me. I recognize and honor this historic social movement and know that because of their impact on equality (and also because of the photogenic white, educated faces that fronted them) that I have faced fewer struggles in my own life. I am an educated, able-bodied, middle class, heterosexual, cisgendered, conventionally attractive, white, woman with ADHD (technically a learning disability, but also a superpower and example of neurodiversity!). These identities afford me privilege and associated power in innumerable ways. This also means that I have countless blind spots. With these parts of my positionality I put forth here, I hope you - the reader- can interact with this website knowing some of where I come from, how I perceive those identities, and how they impact how I relate to the world and the ways in which the world relates to me.
With this in mind, I invite you to please challenge me, my messiness, my blind spots, my spaces, anywhere you see that I am just not getting it. I strive toward a more embodied relationship to research, science, and teaching; and value bringing our whole selves into these spaces (and we can’t afford not to be doing this!). The world needs all of us to be all of us, all of the time.
See contact for ways to reach me or feel free to comment on my blog.
As a feminist researcher, I acknowledge and am committed to “being in the work”. I believe that it is that is impossible to do unbiased science and that we are always implicated in our research …and that that is totally OK! I have benefited disproportionately from the recognized “women’s movements”; organized and driven by (mostly white) women like me. I recognize and honor this historic social movement and know that because of their impact on equality (and also because of the photogenic white, educated faces that fronted them) that I have faced fewer struggles in my own life. I am an educated, able-bodied, middle class, heterosexual, cisgendered, conventionally attractive, white, woman with ADHD (technically a learning disability, but also a superpower and example of neurodiversity!). These identities afford me privilege and associated power in innumerable ways. This also means that I have countless blind spots. With these parts of my positionality I put forth here, I hope you - the reader- can interact with this website knowing some of where I come from, how I perceive those identities, and how they impact how I relate to the world and the ways in which the world relates to me.
With this in mind, I invite you to please challenge me, my messiness, my blind spots, my spaces, anywhere you see that I am just not getting it. I strive toward a more embodied relationship to research, science, and teaching; and value bringing our whole selves into these spaces (and we can’t afford not to be doing this!). The world needs all of us to be all of us, all of the time.
See contact for ways to reach me or feel free to comment on my blog.