Talks

2011 Keynote, University of Sussex, for Hard Science? Sex, Science and Technology Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network 5th Annual Conference, September 15.
2011 Guest speaker, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH: April 7-8.
2011 Newcomb College Institute’s 2011 Martha Custard Lecture, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA: Monday April 4.
2010 Co-convener, Queering the Countryside: New Directions in Rural Queer Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN: November 6-7.
2010 Guest speaker, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK: October 18-20.
2010 Guest speaker, Parkland College, Urbana, IL: Monday, October 11.
2010 Plenary presentation for Queering the Middle: Sexual Diasporas, Race, and a Queer Midwest, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL: October 7-8.
2010 Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Lecture Series, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN: Friday 1:30PM, September 24.
2010 Arizona State University’s Social Justice and Inquiry Spring Colloquium, Tempe, AZ: Wednesday 5PM, March 10.
2010 Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, Cambridge, MA: Wednesday 6:30PM-9PM, February 10.
2010 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN: February 17-19.
2010 DePauw University, Greencastle, IN: Tuesday 5:30PM, March 2.
2010 Eastern Illinois University, Women’s History and Awareness Month, Charleston, IL: Thursday March 4.
2010 Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Cambridge, MA: Tuesday 12:30PM, February 9 2010

  • Webcast of the Berkman talk and a podcast of a conversation with Berkman Fellow David Weinberger, produced by Daniel Dennis Jones
2010 Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY: Thursday 11AM, January 14.
2009 “Beyond the “online/offline” binary: Blurring the boundaries of queer youth visibility in the rural United States” Guest Lecture, Film and Media Studies Program, Swarthmore College, November 30.
2009 “Queering Visibility Out in the Country” Guest Lecture, School of Communication, Hofstra University, October 2.
2009 “Queer Kids Here? Mediating the Politics of Gay Visibility in Rural America” Invited paper for the Emerging Rural, Nonmetropolitan, and Working-Class Perspectives in LGBTQ Studies Symposium, sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, October 2.
2009 “Cartographies of Rural Sexual Desire” Invited talk presented to the New Media Studies Working Group, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 28.
2009 “You’ve got to fight for your right…to marry? A queer feminist critique of same-sex marriage (or why I want to divorce the gay and lesbian non-profit industrial complex)” Plenary presentation for the Feminist Futures Conference sponsored by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, May 7-8.
2009 “You Want to Study WHAT?” Negotiating Institutional Review Board Approval for Lavender Language Research” Workshop for the 16th Annual Lavender Languages Conference, Washington D.C., February 13-16.
2008 “Engaging vulnerable subjects: Queering social science research at the twilight of the public university.” Plenary presentation delivered at the 10th Annual Queer Studies Conference, Los Angeles, October 10-11.
2006 “School’s Out! GSAs in the Press.” Presented as part of the “Leroy F. Aarons Summer Institute on Sexual Orientation Issues in the News” at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) 89th Annual Convention. The AEJMC Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Interest Group and the Annenberg School for Communication sponsor the Institute in San Francisco, California August 2-5.
2004 “Multi-sited work over the Internet: What kind of ethnography happens online?” Presented to the NSF-funded Science, Technology Studies symposium, “Studying Up—the Problems and Prospects of Multi-Sited Ethnography,” UC Berkeley, Gene Rochlin, convener, February 1-3.
2003 “On methods: Pondering the “newness” of new media studies in a not-so-run-of-the-mill ethnography” Invited paper for the New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methods Symposium, September 9, UMN.

Community Events & Media Appearances

2010 Guest on Eight Forty-Eight, hosted by Alison Cuddy, WBEZ, 91.5FM, Chicago,IL: Thursday October 28 2010 2010
2010 Spencer PRIDE and White River Valley Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) Meeting and Screening of Out in the Silence, Spencer, IN: Sunday 5:30PM, October 10 2010
2010 Seymour Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), Seymour, IN: Sunday 5PM, September 26.
2010 1n10 Youth Center, Phoenix, AZ: Tuesday March 9.
2010 Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ: Thursday 7PM, March 11.
2010 The Emily Rooney Show, WGBH, 89.7FM, Boston, MA: Wednesday February 10 2010
2010 Noon Edition, WFIU, 103.7FM, Bloomington, IN: Friday 12PM, January 22.
2010 State of Affairs, WFPL, 89.3FM, Louisville, KY: Monday 1PM, January 25.
2010 7th Annual PRIDE Film Festival, Buskirk Chumley Theater in Bloomington, IN: Saturday 2PM, January 30.
2009 Bloomington High School South’s Gay Straight Alliance, Bloomington, IN: Wednesday December 16.
2009 Giovanni’s Room, Philadelphia, PA: 5:30PM, December 1
2009 A Different Light Bookstore, San Francisco, CA: Thursday 7:30PM, November 19
2009 Lambda Rising Bookstore in Washington D.C.: Thursday 6:30PM, October 29
2009 The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center’s Second Tuesday Series, NYC, NY: Tuesday 6PM, October 13
2009 Boxcar Books, Bloomington, IN: Thursday 8:30PM, September 24
2009 Louisville Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), Louisville, KY: Sunday 3PM-4PM, September 20
2009 Carmichael’s Bookstores, Louisville, KY: Friday 7PM, September 18
2009 bloomingOUT Radio, Bloomington, IN: Thursday 6PM, September 3
2009 Think with Krys Boyd on KERA 90.1FM Dallas, TX: Wednesday 12PM-1PM, August 26 2009 (archived podcast of the show available at: www.queercountry.org)
2009 The Michelangelo Signorile Show on Out-Q, Sirius XM Radio: Tuesday 4:30PM, August 25
2008 “Incite!/Insight?: FTM and Lesbian Representations Pushing the Dialogue” Panel organizer, participant, and moderator with Judith Halberstam, Susan Stryker, and Suzanna Walters, Bloomington, January 26.
2007 “What is New Queer Cinema?” Panel presentation in conjunction with the Departments of Communication and Culture and Gender Studies at the 4th Annual PRIDE Film Festival in Bloomington, January 25.