I draw on the tools of philosophy to study and think about the meanings, structures, and norms of gender, race, sexuality, class, and nationality. I ask how these social and political phenomena are made and lived, and I am curious about how they shape one's possibilities in the world and one's relationships with others. My research interests are in the harms posed and created by racial, gendered, and sexual norms, sexual ethics, the ethics of gender affirmation, and the ethical visions crafted by marginalized groups and social movements. 

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Much of my published work considers how an individual's experience of time is inflected by colonial histories of gender-based violence and sexual domination. Currently, I am working on two books—one on the life and work of Simone de Beauvoir and another on the moral harm of anti-trans politics. 

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