Although the U.S. media has recently been abuzz with commentary about heteroflexibility, most accounts have focused on “girls who kiss girls” for the pleasure of male spectators, or men of color “on the down low” who are presumed to be gay and in the closet. But where do white men—the dominant culture’s most normalized and idealized figures—fit in to these narratives?

Palm Desert LGBT+ Lecture Series I hope it won't ruin my talk to ask at the outset, "what isn't queer about Frankenstein?"  After all, an obsessive scientist crawls around graves and into charnel houses and drags variously corrupted body parts back to his laboratory; out of these decomposing parts he constructs a hideous male monster.  Then for more than a hundred pages, the scientist and his creature are locked in a death-dance.  Let's start there. Download flyer

A large body of literature attempts to guide physicians and other healthcare providers toward more effective communication with their patients. Hundreds of seminars are conducted each year in an effort to improve clinician-patient relationships and information exchange—but they are almost never directed at patients. This lecture will focus on what patients need to know about the members of their healthcare teams in order to maximize the productivity of the visit, and on specific things patients can do to improve their partnerships with their doctors, nurse [...]