I came to NLS in November 2022 to work with a pioneering team that set up a queer archives called QAMRA (Queer Archive for Memory, Reflection and Activism). An archive isn’t only for historians, but for anyone who’d like to think with the rich and varied voices/practices of the past that have shaped our present or remain as potential for the future. I’ve also had the pleasure of being part of the The Writing Centre (TWC) team since 2023. We focus on writing in the classroom through worksheets, where students learn how to read analytically, build academic arguments, engage with sources and write clearly.

Since July 2024, I transitioned into a full-time teaching role, and have been teaching Sociology to undergraduate students. I like to think of the classroom as a place where ideas can be tested and played with, without having to be complete or politically correct, and encourage my students to think aloud. Teaching Sociology in the classroom is like a dance between a hermeneutics of suspicion (reading a text with some skepticism to expose underlying, hidden ideas) and a hermeneutics of trust (where we strengthen another’s view point and see how it can be illuminating – an empathetic approach). A sociological imagination makes us willing to be astonished by the world, and astonished too by what we consider reasonable ourselves. As my gen-Z students might put it: “delulu is the solulu”.