Upcoming Talks
Keynote speaker, “The Art of Conviviality,” Memory Studies Association Nordic Biannual Conference, Malmö, Sweden, Oct 24–26, 2024
Keynote speaker, “Unhomed, Unhoused, Homeless: An Interdisciplinary Conference,” to be held at the University of Notre Dame March 1-2, 2024
Invited Talks
“LGBTQ+ Oral Histories: Ethics and Practice,” Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Sept 28, 2023
“Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin,” San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, March 15, 2023
“Mutual Aid in Zones of Abandonment,” University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, Mar 2, 2023
Book release and panel discussion, Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, with Kevin Murphy, Ann Cvetkovich, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Alaa Saad, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Feb 15, 2023
“Queer Publics, Queer Histories,” Yale University Public Humanities, New Haven, CT, Feb 9, 2023
“Archives, Performance, and Knowledge,” Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, June 21, 2022
“Listening to the City: Hearing, Interpreting, and Presenting Urban Experiences Mediated Through Life-Stories,” Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden, Sept 29, 2021
“Performing Black Queer History in Baltimore’s ‘Cathedral of Books,’” Columbia University Oral History Master of Arts Workshop Series, New York, NY, Mar 2021
“Black Queer Performance in Baltimore’s Cathedral of Books,” Johns Hopkins University Tabb Center Speaker Series, Baltimore, MD, Oct 15, 2019
“Sharing Authorities,” Oral History Practicum Graduate Seminar, UC Riverside Department of History, Riverside, CA, Jan 31, 2019
“Facilitating Bridge-Building through Oral History,” Concordia University Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Montreal, Canada, Mar 19, 2014
“Behind the Masks: GLBT Life at Oberlin College,” Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, Sept 22, 2012
“Queer Public Histories of the Tenderloin,” Sonoma State University Queer Studies Lecture Series, Sonoma, CA, Feb 16, 2010
“Polk Street: Lives in Transition,” City University of New York, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, New York, NY, May 8, 2009
Working Groups and Public Presentations
“Queer Tenderloin Histories” with Susan Stryker, Cecilia Chung, and Anthony Cabello, The Tenderloin Museum, San Francisco, CA, Mar 16, 2023
“Co-Performing Queer Histories in San Francisco’s Tenderloin,” Yale University Performance Studies Working Group, New Haven, CT, Jan 29, 2013
“Vanguard Revisited: Religious Ritual and Queer World Making in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, 1960s-Present,” Yale University American Religious History Working Group, New Haven, CT, 2012
Oral History Methods and Practice Workshop, Yale University Public Humanities Working Group, New Haven, CT, Feb 28, 2012
Oral History Methods and Practice Workshop, California College for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Feb 2011
“’Turn Yourself Inside Out and See with New Eyes’: Homeless GLBT Youth Organizing, 1960s and Today,” Speaking Tour May-Jun 2011:
New York, May 27-30: Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan and MCCNY Homeless Youth Services: Sylvia’s Place
Los Angeles, Jun. 10-11: The Gay & Lesbian Center’s Kruks-Tilsner Transitional Living Program for Youth
Portland, Jun. 17-18: Central Lutheran Church and New Avenues for Youth
San Francisco, Jun. 23: GLBT Historical Society Museum
“Street Power: the Story of San Francisco’s Vanguard,” National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, Jun 14, 2010
“Vanguard Revisited, Continuing Legacy,” California College for the Arts, San Francisco, Feb 8, 2010
“Reconstructing Polk Street,” Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, San Francisco, CA, May 19, 2009
“Polk Street: Lives in Transition Listening Party,” Lush Lounge, San Francisco, Jun 18, 2009
“Homelessness and History: Polk Street Stories Project,” California Historical Society, San Francisco, Mar 18, 2009
“Uncovering Oberlin’s Queer Past,” Oberlin College History Department, Oct 5, 2007
Conferences
“Queering the University Curriculum Through LGBTQ+ Oral Histories,” annual meeting of the Oral History Association, Baltimore, MD, Oct 19, 2023
“Feminist and Queer Worldmaking: Solidarity and Radical Spaces Outside the Academy” roundtable, American Studies Association annual meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Nov 4, 2023
“Oral History and Performance: the Peabody Ballroom Experience,” International Oral History Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 25-28, 2023
“Street Churches: Queer Religions and Moral Economy,” Conference on Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion, University of California, Riverside, Feb 17-19, 2023
Commentator, “Collecting, Archiving and Sharing LGBTQ+ Histories in Rural and Semi-Rural Communities,” Annual Meeting of the Oral History Association, Baltimore, Maryland, Oct 24, 2020
“New Directions in Queer Public History” Roundtable, Queer History Conference 2019 (QHC 19), San Francisco, California, June 17, 2019
“The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot at 50,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Denver, Colorado, Nov 17-20, 2016
“’Living in Her Memory:’ Queer Kinship and Survival through Sylvia Rivera’s Ashes,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Denver, Colorado, Nov 17-20, 2016
“Exceeding Analysis: Grappling with Queer Histories of Trauma,” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, Oct 12-16, 2016
“Saint Sylvia’s Ashes: Queer Solidarities through the Dead,” Solidarit(i)es, CASCA & SANA annual conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 11, 2016
“Roundtable: Solidarity in Oral History and Anthropology,” Solidarit(i)es, CASCA & SANA annual conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 15, 2016
Respondent, “Memorials and Traumas of Nationhood,” Farewell Performances: A Conference of Interdisciplinary Performance Studies, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, Apr 18, 2015
“‘Idealists of the Slums:’ Queer Intimacies and the Ambivalence of the Sacred in San Francisco’s Tenderloin,” European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, Austria, Apr 26, 2014