To this day, my relationship with the electric guitar remains an ongoing meditation and re-negotiation—a way of staying connected to an instrument that has accompanied me since long before I was out.

In 2020 masc4masc released Not Another Queer Movie through People Places Records. In addition to exploring queer adolescence through narrative and parody, the record features a free-improvised middle section in which my work was inspired by my thinking on “disorienting guitar practice”

My interest in this “disorienting guitar practice” continued through improvising alongside Hillary Jean Young in the project masc4masc.

During this time, masc4masc recorded an EP called Dawson’sCreamo, containing punk covers of songs from the soundtrack to the pilot of the television show Dawson’s Creek. The EP was released as a multimedia work, embedded into an html reconstruction of a classic myspace page which spun out queer narratives between the show’s main characters.

The record featured plundered soundbites from the original pilot re-organized to construct queer love stories between the main characters––raising questions about queer childhoods, nostalgia, and memory’s productive faults. A sample track, “i’ll stand by you,” is below.

Published in 2016, this article outlines a guitar practice grounded in references to resistant (queer, femme) bodies and disruptive to the electric guitar’s iconic heteromasculinity.

The work grew from her lifelong exploration of the electric guitar which fed into her Masters dissertation Docility, Resistance, and the Indie Guitarist: A Foucaultian Interpretation of the Guitar-Hero (2013).