This past March, I was a guest on Abigail Jensen’s podcast Rat Girls. It was intimidating to talk to a public facing audience about my work for the first time, especially considering that most of my work is about sex. As a middle schooler learning about the internet, “don’t talk about sex or even indicate that you know what sex is” was the #2 rule of being online, after “don’t talk to strangers on the internet.”
However, as Abigail says in her podcast description, “perfect is boring, being feral is way more fun.” So me, my aptly fitting last name, vocal fry, and sexual innuendos joined her for an hour of recording. Give it a listen here!
Secondly, in December 2025 I finished the Associate level of the Graduate Teaching Apprenticeship Program (GTAP) run by Indiana University’s Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning (CITL). This program is designed to provide graduate students more training to become teachers, learn about teaching techniques, explore theories of learning, and skills to build classroom communities.
This March I was posted on their GTAP Awardess page, i.e. a list of the most creative and brilliant graduate student teachers at Indiana University1 . The next level of certification will have me working on materials that can go into a teaching portfolio for future job applications. As I state on the awardees page, when I was younger I never imagined I’d be so interested in educating and shaping the minds of a new generation of scholars. I also never imagined I’d be talking about sex on the internet though, so…. Can’t always satisfy the inner child.
- There is no data to back this up beyond vibes. However, the vibe is that the most creative and brilliant students get GTAP certified. I don’t make the rules, I just observe them.
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