.essays
A collection of academic writings I've worked on towards the end of my undergraduate career (in Medieval Studies) and throughout my Masters program (in Library Science). Common topics I like to write about are- go figure- medieval & Celtic folklore, medieval gender & sexuality, inclusive cataloguing in libraries, and Intersex Studies. I cannot recommend that you reference these, given their unreviewed nature, but if you find them intriguing for your own research, please consult the citations I have included.
General content warning for unpleasant and/or disturbing topics in these essays. Read at your own discretion.
General content warning for unpleasant and/or disturbing topics in these essays. Read at your own discretion.
Classifying Our Whole Potentiality: Examining Bibliographic Justice for Intersex Communities - The literature review from a research proposal I wrote on the discriminatory history of intersex inclusion in libraries. Later was adapted into a presentation I gave at a statewide conference and for an intersex advocacy organization. 05.15.25.
A Lexicon All Our Own: On Queer Inclusion in Controlled Vocabularies - A broad review of how controlled vocabularies have evolved alongside and for queer identities. 12.01.24.
“Between the Moon and the Earth”: Collisions of Christian Orthodoxy with Fairy Faiths in Late Medieval Britain - My senior paper for a graduate seminar on heresy. I discuss fairy faiths particularly in Wales and how they were allowed to proliferate, melded into something for Christian doctrine, or disavowed entirely. 05.10.24.
“We Were Never Meant to Survive”: The Preservation of Queer Voices through Audre Lorde and Loren Cameron’s Example - My final paper from my queer historical literature course, using the case study of Loren Cameron's missing book as a call to arms about queer historical amnesia. 12.07.23.