Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at the Virginia Commonwealth University
About
As a White, neurotrans, queer-crip human who was among the first in their family to receive a college education, and who grew up in poverty, oriented around a conservative religious ideology, B. Ethan Coston is committed to teaching, research, and community membership that interrogates necropolitcs, disrupts anti-Blackness, and radically reorients the academy’s relationship to empire and other normative structures of belonging.
Current Work:
The Feminist Philosophies + Praxis of Sexuality and Health Lab (POSH Feminist Lab) does work in three interrelated areas: 1) “paranoid and reparative” analyses of epistemic sexual/health cultures; 2) critical sexuality studies; and 3) critiques of the violence that proliferates from the medical industrial complex.
Current projects include:
-The Queerantine Archive Project (funded; bit.ly/QueerArchive)
-The SEX (Sexual health, Erotic life, and pleasure eXperiencing) Assessment (grant currently under review with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Research Area Keyword(s):
epistemic cultures; LGBTQIA+; public health; critical sexuality studies
