About
I’m a queer feminist researcher who studies girl activists, their politics, and their relationships with their mothers and mother figures. I defended my doctoral dissertation: “Daughtering: Girls, Their Feminism, and Their Mothers” in 2025.
I hold an undergraduate degree in History and Sexuality Studies from Huron University College at Western University. I completed my MA at Western, where I analyzed the histories of sex education in Canada and how race, nation, and norms of childhood are negotiated through sex education controversies. My MA research has been published in Sex Education and The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies. This work began my interest in exploring how young people are both key subjects and actors in sociopolitical debates concerning gender and sexuality. This has extended to both my dissertation research and other projects, like my forthcoming analysis of the moral panics about childhood sexuality that surround pregnant Barbie dolls.
Hi, I’m Hannah!
My dissertation, “Daughtering: Girls, Their Feminism, and Their Mothers,” examines how Canadian girls aged 11-20 create space for themselves within ongoing activist and feminist movements and explores the influence of their relationships with their mothers and mother figures on their participation. My approach centres girls’ voices and their roles as active members of their families and communities while understanding how discursive structures frame their social location. I have recently published some of my dissertation work in Atlantis and a paper titled ‘“I am daughterhood, but I'm non-binary:” Mothers and Daughters on Gender, the Family and their Feminist Futures’ for (Un)Disturbed: A Journal of Feminist Voices.
When I’m not at my desk, I’m playing Stardew Valley.