Media & Public Writing

Texas Is Testing a Blueprint for Censoring Gender and Sexuality in Higher Education Nationwide 

Drawing on my experience teaching at Texas Tech University, this essay examines how restrictions on teaching gender and sexuality are enforced through administrative procedures that compel faculty to certify compliance with censorship. It argues that these seemingly routine bureaucratic mechanisms constitute a broader model for undermining academic freedom and institutional autonomy.

Deputized by Design: Ambient Surveillance and Neoliberal Rescue in Dangerous Animals

This review of the Australian horror film Dangerous Animals (2025) examines how everyday surveillance technologies become instruments of private investigation and rescue. It argues that the film normalizes a neoliberal model of justice in which individuals assume responsibilities abandoned by public institutions, transforming ubiquitous surveillance into an apparently benign practice of care.