i am a cultural anthropologist and queer theorist concerned with security, queer youth, viruses, and media. two common through lines that connect my research together are my feminist and queer commitments to a politics of difference that saturates any sociocultural research field, and generative interpretations of temporality that link pasts, presents, and futures together in novel configurations. i see security weave through the majority of my work, from the treatment of queer bodies and interpretation of sex panics to the representation and management of viruses in the arctic. my work spans different foci in the hopes of making connections across disciplines, fields, sites, methods, theories, and investments. writing is my passion, a catharsis that enables me to experience worlds foreclosed to some and ignored by others.