Doctoring Dobbs is project that emerged from playing at the intersections of feminist literary art, advocacy, and anthropology. The seeds of the idea came from participation in Center for Artistic Activism's 6-week course focused on "Reproductive Justice." In Fall 2022, I decided to apply erasure methods (like the example to the left) to the 78-page majority ruling in the US Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org. decision, which overturned nearly 50 years of federally protected abortion rights. I posted one-erasure-a-day on Instagram for friends and community. About halfway through the 78-page ruling, I paused to reflect on what I was learning and composed my thoughts in the form of a seed grant.

Today, I learned that I received an Enhancing Research in the Humanities & Arts grant to develop a virtual gallery of my erasure poems that creatively 'amend' each page of Dobbs. I'll launch the gallery on June 24, 2023, the 1-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision. Stay tuned!

Dr. Natalia Rodriguez (Public Health) and I had the pleasure of presenting insights from our collaboration in the Hutton Lecture Series at Purdue, the results of which were published in the American Journal of Public Health in 2022.

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated health and social inequities for homeless populations who face stigma and marginalization that often disenfranchise them from health and social services and expose them to conditions for heightened risk of infection and adverse outcomes. In January 2021, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) published a report outlining the council’s efforts and national outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on people experiencing homelessness through December 31, 2020.