My research examines the relationship between ideas of health, risk, and community, with a special focus on the social and structural forces shaping the lives of sex workers and queer communities. I examine how the regulation of pornography by governments, payment processors, and online platforms—often done in the name of ‘health’—exerts control over what forms of sexuality and sexual labour can exist both on and offline. My current scholarly home is as a postdoctoral fellow at the SHaG Lab.

I have 15+ years of experience working in various areas of the adult industry, and am board chair of PASS, a non-profit dedicated to porn performer health. I am on the board of Stepping Stone and a part of Clean Air Library HRM. Other groups I have organized with include Safe Harbour Outreach Project, Queer Between the Covers, and AIDS Community Care Montreal. My research and writing focuses on occupational health and labour issues in porn and sex work, sexual and public health policy, and research methods and ethics. Several media outlets have covered my work, and I lecture to undergraduate and graduate classes on public health ethics and equity, sexual health and pornography, intersectionality in healthcare, and sex worker rights. While some previous work does not reflect this, I use he/him pronouns in English et le pronom il avec les accords masculin en français.

I’m also an avid zine maker and love a good saddle stapler.