Last week, my colleague Emily Maemura presented our co-authored research titled “‘Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep’: A Thematic Analysis of Data Hoarding as Digital Curation Practice” at iConference 2025 in Bloomington, Indiana. Our short paper, from which the presentation was derived, was also nominated as one of the best short papers at the conference. Feel free to read the paper here.

I’m am excited to announce that I will be joining a panel at iConference exploring the emerging topic of “slow information behavior and practices.” The panel is organized by Dr. Clara Chu and is titled “Disrupting the Algorithm: The Slow Information Movement (SIM) and Implications for Slow Information Behavior and Practice (SIBP) Research.” If you are attending iConference please consider joining us!

I am honored to announce my new article in The Moving Image titled “Expanding the Borders of Transgender Historiography in Moving Image Archives.” This has been a journal I have hoped to publish in for some time and the topic is all too timely. Feel free to check the article out here!

I am excited to announce my recent co-authored article featured in the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. The paper titled “The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Disclosing and Reporting Sexual Assault Among Young Adults: A Systematic Review” was a collaboration with Research & Instruction and Sciences Librarian Valerie Vera from the University of South Carolina. You can access the article here.

I have a new book chapter titled “FUCK THIS CHARACTER I’M JUST GOING TO GET STRONGER”: SonicFox’s Hypermediation of Blackness and Queerness as Radical Archival Embodiment in the edited anthology Queer and Femme Gazes in AfroAsian American Visual Culture. You can learn more about it here.

I’m excited to announce my new co-authored article in Archivaria titled “It’s Not the Materials Themselves, It’s the Attitude of the Donors”: The Role of Community Accountability in the Sustainability of Queer Archives. It is co-authored with my collaborators Allan A. Martell (Indiana University) and Shannon M. Oltmann (University of Kentucky). You can view the article here.

My recent article in the Journal of Documenation titled “We are openly, proudly subjective…This history is important to our contemporary survival”: Queer embodied knowlege and the curatorial work of ICT-based LGBTQ+ history content creators” is now out in print. You can access the article here. I will also be presenting an extention of this work in a few weeks at ASIS&T during a paper presentation titled: “Social Media Has Been Helpful in Learning About Myself and Finding My Community”: The Affordances and Constraints of ICT-Based Qeuer History Content Creation.

On October 15th, I will be presenting a poster at the annual Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) conference in Portland, Oregon. The poster is part of a collaborative research project between myself and two other library and information sciene scholars Alan Martell (Indiana University) and Shannon Oltmann (University of Kentucky). The project interviewed archival practitioners working at the intersections of queer and LGBTQIA+ archives to examine how their embodied identities and the collective memory of the HIV/AIDS epidemic impacted their work. The poster is titled: “Life is Too Short Not To Speak the Truth”: Framing Accountable Community Collaboration Within HIV/AIDS Archival Work.” A PDF of the poster will be forthcoming.

I am honored to announce that myself and Dr. Vanessa Kitzie from the University of South Carolina were the winner’s of this year’s ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition for the Association for Library and Information Science Education. Our winning paper was titled “In Many Ways, You’re This Person Who’s Providing Light”: Theorizing Embodied Responses to Information Absence within LGBTQIA+ Communities.

You can learn more about the award here

Check out my new co-authored article with Victora Van Hyning and Mace Jones titled Desire Paths in the Information Landscape where we take the concept of a collaborative writing document to interrogate questions of sustainability, inclusion, and access within digital archives and libraries. A screen shot of the chaos is shown below and you can find the full paper here.