Queer life has always been forged in resistance and mutual care — from Black and Latinx trans women at Stonewall challenging police violence to grassroots mutual-aid networks housing youth rejected by family. Yet mainstream institutions repurpose queer liberation as a sanitized marketing demographic: rainbow logos without structural change. Feel-good marketing campaigns don’t solve problems caused by lack of visibility, mental health concerns, legislative assaults, and a lack of intersectionality.
Here are some areas of interest and work:
LGBTQ+ Relationships
In coaching, research, and public speaking/communication, I enjoy working toward positive health and social outcomes in queer relationships.
These topics include:
- Understanding relational landscapes beyond the norms, such as ENM/poly relationships
- LGBTQ+ attachment theory
- Minority stress and relationship satisfaction
- Trauma survivors, recovering from Religious Fundamentalism, SOGICE or Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts (including conversion therapy, forced mixed-orientation marriages, and more) navigating post-non-affirming relationship dynamics
- Inclusive sex ed
- Gender identity transition within partnerships
- Gender identity and sexual orientation labels, identity, and meaning-making
LGBTQ+ Inclusion
While visibility has grown—9.3% of U.S. adults now openly identify as LGBTQ+—structural hostility persists. Nearly half of queer employees have endured discrimination or harassment at work during their careers, and U.S. lawmakers introduced a hundreds anti-LGBTQ+ bills in 2025 alone. Inclusion, therefore, cannot be reduced to symbolic gestures; it must become an ongoing project of redistributing power, resources, and decision-making toward queer liberation.
Working towards LGBTQ+ inclusion includes several research topics, including:
- Religious beliefs and LGBTQ+ identity
- Public policy and law concerning SOGICE or Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts
- Science education and debunking myths about LGBTQ+ people
- Creating safe environments, strengthening weak sanctions, and building communal accountability
- Anti-discrimination policy and praxis
How I Work with You
As a queer sociologist grounded in critical theory, I facilitate structural transformation that redistributes power. Engagements include:
- HR Policy Development via HR Consulting & Organizational Development
- Transformative Justice Work through Mediation and Conflict Resolution
- Trauma-Informed Practice through Coaching and Organizational Culture and Dynamics consulting
- Social Scientific Research and Academic Research on LGBTQ+ topics
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