Her political work focuses on queer liberation, indigenous solidarity and decolonization, and feminist community education. She is the author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding (Penn State Press, 2011). She has published in Signs, Hypatia, The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Sociological Theory. Her academic work addresses racial formation, disability, unspeakable and unspoken knowledge, sexuality, gender, and political transformation. She’s just finished a book about impurity, complexity, and the relations of the past to unpredictable futures called Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.