OMG Tank is the best name. I was thinking some mini-hippo bully and then boom, TANK!

Oh and I guess I should mention my blog that absolutely reaches far more people and has an influence much greater than academic publications. My teaching has also got a lot more fun as I've incorporated more of this work. adventuresincensorship.com

Now the major goal is to finally get a book contract, hopefully for the book on suppressing queer literature, and actually get that out. Then more book projects to come!

This research has lead me to places I never expected. I became something of a public records request expert for a time and now I'm a huge archive rate. I think I'm up to 24 archives visited and I can't wait to add to it.

And most recently, I wrote about how universities in the 1990s faced some straight backlash seeking to reconstitute spaces as straight only. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2025/10...

Censorship drew me to questions of inclusive education practices and the battle over them. I became interested in how queer educational activists sought to improve secondary and higher education. This chapter sketched some of that in terms of LGTBQ Politics courses.

My most recent censorship piece examine the place of comics and graphic storytelling in modern book challenges. I found that only sometimes did the graphic nature mater to the challenger but it seemed to matter a lot when it did. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2025/7/...

My next article was actually the first censorship piece I started writing back in March 2019. I discovered a number of challenges to trans inclusive literature and became fascinated with how they reflected antitrans politics. The paper grew and grew from there

My next was my paper that was hate written mostly in a weekend. I had discovered a rising number of challengers trying to invoke criminal obscenity laws and decided to explore both why this was and the outcomes. adventuresincensorship.com/blog/2023/11...

My partner's grandparents lived on a golf course and it was just a periodic event that one of the big windows would explode in. The development seemed to have a disaster response team on call because they were there quickly to swap the panes.